Digital Library Federation Forum
Online
November 2020

Metadata Works From Home: How Student Workers Continued to Work While Increasing Collection Accessibility

Digital Library Federation Forum
Online
November 2020

Abstract

Faced with campus closures, a University of Houston Libraries team developed plans to engage student employees in creating closed captions for hundreds of archival videos on the Libraries’ Audio/Video Repository. Panelists describe the project and address unique challenges related to transcribing archival content, including dated and offensive content.