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Exploring the British Librarys audio collectionsRichard Ranft23 September 2013#semanticmedia
www.bl.uk#Exploring the British Librarys audio collectionsThe collectionsCurrent accessImproving discovery and access
www.bl.uk#LM: news and TVPW: radio2
The British Librarys audio collectionsEstablished 1955 as British Institute of Recorded SoundNational collection of UK music industrySelected publications from overseasRadio broadcastsUnpublished recordings
www.bl.uk#SubjectsMusicSpoken word Environments & nature
www.bl.uk#Extent8 million tracks- from 1857 to this morningMany formats66 years of listening
www.bl.uk#Barriers to accessHigh expectations (c.f. iTunes, Spotify)CopyrightsMany non-digital tracksOfflineTime-based = time consumingLimited, text-based searchNo serendipity
www.bl.uk#Add slide on freeze framesHigh expectations (c.f. iTunes, Spotify) x million 6
Opacity (no freeze-frames!)
www.bl.uk#Unique property of audio = no instant snapshot, thumbnail, preview7
Automated enrichment/searchCategorisationMusic genre, language/dialect detection, moodSynchronisationScore followingTranscript followingIdentificationSpeaker/ tune matchingSpeaker/vocalist IDQuery by humming/tappingNon-text browsingMap browseTimeline browse
Recommendationmelody matchingCross-media linkingFeature extractionPitch, tempo, chord, time signature, rhythmSegmentation/event detectionMusic/speech segmentsSpeaker/ lead instrument changeLaughter, applause, emotion changeTranscriptionSpeech-to-textscore generation
www.bl.uk#Human-led enrichmentCategory taggingRatingAnnotationTranscriptionRecommendation & review
www.bl.uk#
www.bl.uk#Current accessOnsite:Listening & Viewing ServiceSoundServer (160,000 tracks, 2% of collections)Off site:BL Sounds (50,000 tracks, %)Streamingdownloading
www.bl.uk#12Click to add titleBullet 1Bullet2Bullet 3
www.bl.uk#User annotation
13Click to add titleBullet 1Bullet2Bullet 3
www.bl.uk#
BL Sounds
www.bl.uk#Improving access and discoveryhttp://sounds.bl.uk/
www.bl.uk#BL Sounds user annotation, tagging etc15
www.bl.uk#Timeline annotationIranian poet16
www.bl.uk#Audioboo track for UK SoundMap project17
www.bl.uk#Map browsingTimeline18
www.bl.uk#
www.bl.uk#Sonic visualiserMusicology for the Masses project20
www.bl.uk#Sound spectrogramse.g. Automatic measure and logging of peak, max and min frequencies, duration of elements21
www.bl.uk#Europeana Sounds, 2014-17 (if funded)MIRScore followingCrowdsourcing metadata enhancement
AHRC big data proposal22
CREM http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/Telemeta enginehttp://telemeta.org/
www.bl.uk#Audio analysis, taggingVisualisationsmarkers23
Examplehttp://sounds.bl.uk/Arts-literature-and-performance/Early-spoken-word-recordings/024M-1CS0011556XX-0200V0 English Conversation: At the Tobacconist's (1929) Linguaphone 78rpm
www.bl.uk#JRR Tolkien. At the Tobacconist's (1929) - on British Library Sounds website
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www.bl.uk#Thanks for listening
www.bl.uk#English Conversation: At the TabacconistsFforde, Miss K; Miss MacOwan; Tolkein, Prof JRR; James, Prof. A LloydEarly Spoken Word Recordings, track 1905185401.3eng - The British Library Board
