Lybarger, Kathryn

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University of KentuckyUKnowledgeLibrary Presentations University of Kentucky Libraries2008Using DLXS for Oral HistoriesKathryn LybargerUniversity of Kentucky, kathryn.lybarger@uky.eduRight click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits you.Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_presentPart of the Library and Information Science CommonsThis Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Kentucky Libraries at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusionin Library Presentations by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact UKnowledge@lsv.uky.edu.Repository CitationLybarger, Kathryn, "Using DLXS for Oral Histories" (2008). Library Presentations. 20.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_present/20Using DLXS for Oral Histories Kathryn Lybarger University of Kentucky Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History   Over 6,500 interviews   Over 12,000 actual interview hours   Many new interviews are born digital   Bulk of the collection is on audiotape Collections  Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project:  Martin Luther King, Jr.  Malcolm X  Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project  Formed by Mary Breckenridge in 1925  Organized effort to bring trained nurses, midwives and doctors to people in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky Transcription   Rough transcripts are created by students and volunteers   Final transcripts created by historian Digitization of Audio Audiotape Master (WAV) Edit (WAV) Derivative (MP3) Kentuckiana Digital Library  Part of Kentuckiana Virtual Library  Digitized collections from Kentucky  Collections of various formats  http://kdl.kyvl.org/ Search Interface  Keyword search the transcripts any set of collections   Within a collection, limit searches to interviewee   Browse interviews by interviewee Search Results Audio + Transcript Timestamping Implementation  Interface  Extension of BibClass (perl + PHP)  SoX – Sound eXchange + LAME + MAD  Slider (JavaScript + CSS)   Timestamping  JavaScript and flash using AJAX to communicate with a PHP back end  References  Eric Weig, Kopana Terry and Kathryn Lybarger, “Large Scale Digitization of Oral History”, D-Lib Magazine, May/June 2007. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/weig/05weig.html  Kentuckiana Digital Library. http://kdl.kyvl.org/  Software  DLXS: http://www.dlxs.org/  SoX: http://sox.sourceforge.net/  LAME: http://lame.sourceforge.net/  MAD: http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/  CARPE: http://carpe.ambiprospect.com/slider/  

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