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Archive: August 2022 (4 Posts)

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Volunteer Vignette: The Youngstown State University Transcribing Club

Posted by: Carlyn Osborn

In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews By the People volunteer and Youngstown State University student Julie Centofanti who has gone above and beyond! Julie started a Transcribing Club at YSU in 2020 to help fellow students fulfill a service requirement, build community, and have fun. She was one of two students to win a 2022 …

Posted in: By the People Transcription Program, Guest Posts, Interviews

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Collaborations with Embedded Audio Metadata: Reusing Cue Chunk Data for IIIF Web Annotations

Posted by: Meghan Ferriter

Collaborative editing and preservation capabilities enabled by an emerging open source workflow and updated preservation guidelines? More on a pilot of annotation approaches with AudioAnnotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow, FADGI and BWF MetaEdit, and American Folklife Center collections in this post.

Posted in: Digital Content, Digital Preservation, FADGI, Formats, Open Access, Open Research

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Diving into Digital Ephemera: Identifying Defunct URLs in the Web Archives

Posted by: Tracee Haupt Fugate

This is a guest post written by Olivia Meehan, a 2022 Junior Fellow working with the Web Archiving Team. Her project was completed under the mentorship of  Lauren Baker. If you follow a link referenced in an article just to hit a dead-end, “page not found” error message – you have experienced link rot. “Link …

Posted in: Digital Preservation, Guest Posts, Internships and Fellowships, Web Archiving