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Mandala Audio-Video lets researchers create dynamic sound and video archives for the public or for internal use. This guide explains the affordances of how you can use Audio-Video for scholarsas a scholar.
What are the benefits of using Audio-Video for collaborative research?
- Integration with existing UVA infrastructure, including NetBadge.
Creating accounts and teams is easy, and you can restrict access to UVA members.
- Highly detailed metadata capabilities.
Unlike YouTube, Dropbox, or other services, Audio-Video lets you record important archival details according to using the PBCore schema. - Interaction with other projects through Subjects and Places.
Labeling audio or sound and video entries with subjects or places lets viewers explore your project alongside related images, visualizations, texts, and more. - Transcription capabilities.
Audio-Video lets you upload and download transcripts of your media, including . Transcripts can include multilingual translations.
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Tracking Workflow
Large archival projects can require tracking several tasks or modifications for each file in the collection. In the “Details” for the project, you’ll see several options for workflow tracking, including several generic fields (for example, “Media Problem #1”). You can assign specific issues to these generic fields internally, though you cannot can't change their names in the “Details.”
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