University of Denver, Penrose Library

As an extension of the Colorado Digitization Program's Digital Audio Working Group, the project team (an established group of libraries and museums) will develop an adaptable model project to demonstrate a shared statewide infrastructure available to cultural heritage organizations with audio resources by digitizing at least 2,000 audio objects to be accessible through catalogs, exhibits, and special indexing. The audio files will be centralized for institutions lacking their own capacity, and central streaming services will be provided. Users will be able to enter a search term, receive a list of audio files containing the search term used in the transcript, and then locate and listen to occurrences of the search term in the audio files. Contributing organizations will prepare their own standards-based metadata with access to DC Builder, and those records will be loaded into Heritage, the digital object metadata catalog of the Colorado Digitization Program. Teacher resources will be created for each collection, and rights will be addressed with the help of Michigan State University Libraries.