Using crowd sourcing to create the UK SoundMap

Using crowdsourcing to create the UK SoundMap - Richard Ranft, British Library Metadata & Web 2.0 - 4th annual CIGS seminar 23 Feb 2011 National Library of Scotland

2001: ‘Listen to Nature’ maps www.bl.uk/listentonature

‘ Sounds Familiar’ British dialects map www.bl.uk/soundsfamiliar

Archival Sound Recordings maps www.bl.uk/sounds

Radio Aporee map ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

UK Sound Map: Aims ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Audioboo app “ Twitter without typing… User generated BBC Radio 4 The Youtube of the spoken word” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Contributors 80,000 Recordings 280,000 Listens 11 m. (66,000/day) Top contributors UK, USA, Germany

Method ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Amazon cloud service FLAC audio, metadata (tags, #uksm, photo, time/date, GPS) capture FLAC, metadata archive mp3, metadata publish ?#uksm  moderation  magic tag

Web browser recording & upload

Challenges ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Technical quality - lowering the quality bar? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

iPhone - white noise spectrum anti-aliasing filter speech emphasis

Android phone - white noise spectrum

Results ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Results II ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Moderating the data ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

time and tide bell, Bosta (Outer Hebrides, Scotland)

Next project: Evolving Englishes map ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Conclusions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Thanks for listening! ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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