Archival ASMR: Interview with Nancy Neal
I came across this video a couple of years ago and was struck by the soothing qualities of Nancy Neal's voice even as she talked about traumatic events.
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August 27, 2024
Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds, a Response to Father Coughlin
I'd never heard of Father Coughlin until I worked on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and our Mellon-funded AI grant for CLAMS. We were testing automated speech recognition models…
March 21, 2024
Archival NewsHour Footage Explaining Google
Footage from 2002 of a NewsHour interview with Brewster Kahle, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page courtesy of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. It's interesting to hear about Google and…
August 18, 2023
How We’re Using AI in an Audiovisual Archive
For over three years, we archivists and technologists at WGBH Educational Foundation have been collaborating with computational linguists at Brandeis University to develop, test, and implement a set of tools…
May 31, 2023
Working From Home Before the Internet
Here's a taste of the innovative uses of technology from 1989, in this episode "Thriving on Chaos" from KERA and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. I especially love the…
April 18, 2023
Understanding Your Boomer Parents Thanks to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
And so they retreat into dreams of private things: financial security - a home in the suburbs - a /'beer and a ballgame.' This is a troubling fact in a society that is counting on these same young Americans to solve the enormous problems of life in the twentieth century.
January 23, 2023
Exciting Day for the GBH Archives
The next four years are going to be very exciting at the GBH Archives and for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. In January, we received a grant from the…
January 12, 2023
Transcribing a Sermon, Illuminating a Manuscript
I needed some transcripts with music in them. So, I grabbed the Thanksgiving Sermon and I've been transcribing the sermon of James A. Farmer Jr. Along the way, I've been thinking of monks copying and illuminating manuscripts, and this parallel feeling of doing something similar with modern technology.
July 30, 2021
Rocky IV Video Essay
Growing up in the '80s and '90s, Rocky Balboa held a certain appeal. He was the scrappy, American underdog who always came out on top. Recently, I was exploring the…
May 18, 2021