“We Thought It Was One Tape, One Record”: Metadata Mayhem and Workflow Lessons from a Large-Scale A/V Digitization Project Louise Smith, Katie Ehrbar University of Southern California, United States of America
What do you do when your A/V collection has no metadata, AI transcriptions hallucinate wildly, and a single VHS tape contains nine discrete events? This presentation shares workflow strategies, lessons learned, and future recommendations from a year-long digitization and metadata effort on Jerry Brown’s personal A/V collection.
