IP: MANAGING THE MEMORIES: Edupage, January 18, 2002

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> The Shoah Foundation, dedicated to recording the remembrances
> of Holocaust survivors, is cataloging and distributing thousands
> of videotaped survivor testaments through digital asset management.
> The survivor videos are broken into segments with a customized
> back-end database; each segment is assigned one of 21,000 topic
> keywords, and then the testimonies are cataloged with lists of
> keywords, photos of survivors and their families, related
> documentaries, and textual descriptions. Roughly 5,000 out of
> more than 51,000 tapes have been cataloged thus far. In October,
> the National Science Foundation awarded the foundation $7.5
> million to support a voice-recognition technology initiative.
> The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the University of
> Maryland in College Park, and IBM are subcontractors on the
> project.
> (Computerworld, 14 January 2002)

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