The Soundings project is a collaboration involving National Humanities Center (NHC), the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
National Humanities Center is digitizing the entire audio archive of Soundings and creating written transcriptions of each program. The NHC is providing the raw materials, including LP records, fragile 7" audio and cassette tapes, CD-ROMs, and paper files.
The Libraries of UNC Chapel Hill is digitizing the audio in its many formats, creating accompanying metadata, a preserved hard copy, and hosting the electronic data archive.
RENCI is funding the Libraries' work of digitization and metadata creation and is providing the technolgical infrastructure by applying voice-recognition technology to the digitized audio files to make print transcriptions. RENCI has also developed the Soundings website, including the process which will demonstrate how the Soundings recordings can be downloaded.
