Sound, to Print, to Cloud: Saving the news with the Milo Ryan Phonoarchive Finding Aid
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The UW has over 1500 hours of historically important audio in the Milo Ryan Phonoarchive. This collection includes archived CBS radio broadcasts, primarily from the World War 2 era. Currently, it is difficult for scholars to identify materials of interest within this collection. Metadata for this collection including titles, broadcast dates, and program titles were transcribed into a printed book. In this project, the book is being converted to a fully searchable digital finding aid using enhanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques to greatly enhance the original scans.
Project sponsored by: University of Washington Libraries - Media Center/RAD Lab
Project participants:
Tigh Bradley
MLIS