the nui maynooth ken saro -wiwa audio archive: creating an open access archive in soundcloud
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The NUI Maynooth Ken Saro -Wiwa Audio Archive: Creating an Open Access Archive in Soundcloud. Helen Fallon, NUI Maynooth & Dr Anne O’Brien, Kairos Communications [email protected] , [email protected]. Background. November 2011 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The NUI Maynooth Ken Saro-Wiwa Audio Archive: Creating an Open Access Archive in
Soundcloud
Helen Fallon, NUI Maynooth & Dr Anne O’Brien, Kairos Communications
Background
• November 2011 – Donation of 28 letters and 27 poems written by
Ken Saro-Wiwa to the Library at NUI Maynooth• November 2013– Publication of “Silence Would be Treason: Last
Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa” edited by Íde Corley, Helen Fallon & Laurence Cox
– Launch of “Ken Saro-Wiwa Audio Archive” produced by NUI Maynooth Library and Kairos Communications
Creating the Ken Saro-Wiwa Audio Archive
• Where did I come in?
• Through the creativity of librarians• Through a separate filming project for RTE • Through an infectious curiosity for a story that really
captures the imagination
What is the audio archive?
• Series of recorded interviews• Recorded on location – Rossport• From the comfort (and quiet) of Majella’s
home, or in a car• In a radio studio
Why an Audio Archive?
• Audio takes you beyond written accounts of the era• It feels like you are part of the story because you are
hearing first hand accounts in the voices of the protagonists
• Audio recording played to the strength of people who are very articulate orally but couldn’t give the time to writing
• It allowed the story to be told in detail but in an expedient way
• Video production – Delta Force – prohibitively expensive
What do you need to create an audio archive
• Good story well told (finding the story was easy)
• Recording the story doesn’t have to be complicated
• Read and think a little about doing interviews• Record everything and edit afterwards –
better looking at it than looking for it
Home for the Audio Archive
• SoundCloud• www.soundcloud.com• World’s leading audio cloud-
based platform for creating and sharing sound files “The twitter of music”
SoundCloud Features• Compatible with all major
browsers and mobile devices - iOS and Android
• Over 250 million users• All major audio file
formats supported• 2 hours recording time
available free of charge• Less than a hundred
dollars a year for unlimited space
Listener statistics – geographical & most frequently played
• Users can post comments, like, repost and share tracks
• User created tags• Images• Link from library website
via “Electronic Resources” – direct embedding of soundCloud tracks
Libraries using SoundCloud
• University of Washington Libraries – archival recordings from Collections – https://souncloud/com/uwlibaries
• New England Conservatory– https://soundcloud.com/necmusic
• The British Library– https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library
Audio-Archive Details
• Ken Saro-Wiwa Audio Archivehttp://library.nuim.ie/electronic-resources/ken-saro-wiwa-audio-archive
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