Add text search support for textual content synced with associated audiovisual content in the SDR

[joshschneider]

Use cases drawn from SUL Text Search Study Report (July 2019).

This was described as a pressing need for several stakeholders, including Lowood, Wingfield, and Hartwig. Hartwig also highlighted important issues of accessibility and ADA compliance.

Implementing a solution that includes support for navigating between the synchronized text and audiovisual content will likely require remediation of previously accessioned content, and may require reprocessing the content to add timecode information to support the desired level of navigation precision.

The IIIF Presentation API 3.0 release is expected to provide better support for delivery of media, including the potential of associating transcripts. Its implementation at SUL should improve support for related use cases.

Use case 1:
The Ginsberg audio, all of which is in the SDR at mixed access levels, is currently untranscribed. This is especially problematic due to the lack of robust metadata. So the content is in the SDR, but it is really hard to work with and to find what you are looking for. Enabling [full text] access to transcriptions would mitigate this limitation. Curator: Rebecca Wingfield

Use case 2:
We have at least 750 oral histories that would all benefit from this functionality across several Archives collections, including SHS collection, Project South collection, Phil Zimbardo papers. Primarily audio, but some video as well. Curator: University Archives