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Unlocking Audio 2 - Connecting with Listeners
Date: 16-17 March 2009
Place: London, UK
Unlocking Audio 2: Connecting with Listeners is a key event exploring the use of sounds online. The conference will focus on ways that researchers and other audiences expect to discover, browse, audition and analyse archival audio resources.
Conference registration and first call for papers
How should knowledge organizations, application developers and researchers work together to unlock audio assets while remaining within regulatory frameworks?
The conference celebrates the end of the second Archival Sound Recordings project, which has answered this question successfully. But it is only a beginning: future projects of this kind will demand a greater degree of shared aspiration and commitment.
Reviewing existing and emerging practices and technologies, the conference will be of interest to all users and suppliers of digital content, whether sounds, moving and still images, and texts, including:
* content owners
* academics
* service providers
* user groups
* resource managers
* system integrators
* designers and implementers of data mining, search & content analysis tools
Papers are invited from listeners and application developers as well as from audiovisual archives about collaborative approaches to unlocking audio.
Proposed topics
1. Co-evolving strategy and policy to ensure that archival content remains discoverable, available and relevant for tomorrow’s learning environments:
* developing intelligent search and retrieval tools for large sound collections
* addressing storage and bandwidth limitations for different audiences
* how to inform, embed and refresh digital curation routines and skills
2. The challenge of balancing ambition with regulatory frameworks:
* how to license proprietary content efficiently
* authentication systems
* digital copyright
3. The explosion of creativity and shared innovation that stems from online content:
* adapting to and influencing new business models arising from media convergence, media/digital literacy and Web 2.0
* how can archives and academics collaborate to create the best possible resources for teaching, learning and research?
* how are researchers using on-line audio resources?
Further information: http://www.bl.uk/unlockingaudio
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