Now one of our biggest challenges is integrating all these status and utilizing it on to the
system so that we can do things like for instance search in one place for all of the media or
go to an interview and see a list of time quotes and click on a particular time and
jump to a portion in a story or we can hear somebody talking about a specific memory.
I mean a lot of the systems actually that I have been discussing with some of the other
conference attendees give very similar things, and I think that's one of the most interesting
things when I've been talking to people who have been coming by the table is that, I mean,
they are probably half a dozen, maybe a dozen organizations represented here who are building
systems very, very similar to StoryCorps.
And what's really interesting as well is that the relationships that we are building here
all centered around this like how can we share technology, like how can....there's an Ohms
project for instance which deals explicitly with indexing and tagging of audio in some
open source of platform.
And so we are working to build a relationship with him for instance, maybe somehow their
technology can integrate with ours.
Maybe we can work together to clap or maybe there's something we can give back to them.
One of the most exciting things about having StoryCorps being hired of this amazing WebWise
conferences that we are able to see and to tap into the ways in which organizations and
collections that are similar to ours are really thinking both expensively and creatively about
what it means knowing to be a born digital archive.
But what it means to think about how that archive might exist in the world and to interact
with the public that's very interested in seeing more of those materials.
We've seen presentations by you know, what I consider to be peer institutions in places
like the New York public library and other places that are really thinking creatively
about what it means to have a huge set of data and not just to think about it as something
that's archival or historical in scope but something that can be engaging, compelling,
useful and really exciting to consider.
So I think that for us to be part of that to see StoryCorps as part of that community
with something that really furthers our original mission which is the idea that the very simple
act of two people talking to each other, talking about the things that matter to them can not
only be of interest to a radio audience but can be of interest to future generations to
people who might not necessarily even have a connection to N.P.R. or to some of our big
broadcast venues.
And I think that we have been given a lot of ideas about how to make our archive accessible
and again intriguing to a lighter audience and so it's been a really nice experience. �