A Collaborative Listening & Audio-Visual Annotation Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Sound Lab and the Woodberry Poetry Room
Guest scholars Tanya Clement and Zoe M Bursztajn-Illingworth
Join us as Prof. Tanya Clement (University of Texas. Austin) and Dr. Zoe M Bursztajn-Illingworth introduce us to an exciting new audio tool for scholars, digital humanists, musicians, and literature-lovers alike. This deep dive into close listening will engage participants in a collaborative audio-annotation exercise focused on one of Ralph Ellison’s earliest extant recordings, made at Harvard University in 1953.
Attendees will have an opportunity to learn to make audio, video, and their interpretations more discoverable using documented workflows that include open-source tools for annotation (Audacity), for public code and document repositories and collaboration (GitHub), and audio and video presentation (the Aviary player) to produce, publish, and sustain individual and collaborative audiovisual editions, exhibits, and playlists.
about AudiAnnotate:
In response to the need for a workflow that supports the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) W3C Web Annotation standard, collaborative editing, flexible modes of presentation, and permissions control, the AudiAnnotate Extensible Workflow (AWE) connects open source tools for annotation, public code and document repositories, and the AudiAnnotate web application for creating and sharing IIIF manifests and annotations in scholarly editions, exhibits, and playlists.
about Ralph Ellison’s Harvard Recordings:
To explore Ralph Ellison’s visit to Harvard (and to the Forum Room at Lamont Library, where our AudiAnnotate seminar will take place), we welcome you to watch “Ralph Ellison at Harvard” (2020) and/or to listen to some excerpted passages from Ellison’s lecture, “Certain Neglected Aspects of the American Novel” (1953). To request a free, full-length, scholarly-use copy of Ellison’s lecture, please contact the Poetry Room at poetryrm@fas.harvard.edu.