Audiovisual accessibility: Evaluating workflows for transcribing and captioning digital archival content

Jeremy Myntti and Molly Rose Steed
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Jeremy Myntti: J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, USA
Molly Rose Steed: J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, USA

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2020, vol. 8, issue 3, 264-274

Abstract: Accessibility of content should be a major focus for all digital library projects. This article describes how the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library embarked on a grant-funded project to examine different workflows for creating captions and transcripts for archival audiovisual content. Although many institutions have experimented with various methods for creating captioning and transcripts, there is no perfect standard for effectively and inexpensively generating these for archival collections. While working with a diverse set of archival audio and audiovisual files, the J. Willard Marriott Library compared different captioning workflows based on the amount of time to transcribe, the cost of each workflow, and the quality of the final results. This article presents the findings from this study, with information about the different processes that were used to generate the captions for archival content.

Keywords: accessibility; archival collections; audiovisual; captioning; digital collections; transcription (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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