“How the Pop-Up Radio Archive is Saving Culture”
Here is an article I thought others would be interested in reading.
“How the Pop-Up Radio Archive is Saving Culture”
“The Pop-Up Radio Archive includes three main components: long-term storage of digital files, a standardized metadata system, and optional online publishing, all managed by an easy-to-use web-based management interface.”
Frank Baldaro 8:12 pm on May 3, 2012 Permalink |
I hadn’t heard of the Kitchen Sisters before (are they related to the Kitchen Cousins or the Property Brothers? I smell an HGTV tie-in…). This project sounds really valuable. They’re using Omeka for their CMS and PBCore for their metadata schema, as well as social-media-driven SoundCloud. We hadn’t discussed the latter application, but it’s a fabulous, and easy, way to publish, edit, and annotate sound files. Plus, it’s Web 2.0-driven, meaning you can share your work with others, “follow” them, and even download their files. They’ve got a really nice iPhone app, and an even more sophisticated iPad one. Might be a program Chris could utilize at some point…