1. The SpokenWeb Project at Concordia University Annie Murray Digital & Special Collections Librarian Concordia University | Montréal

2. Funding of Project SSHRC Research Development Initiative Grant (2010-2012) SSHRC Insight Grant (2012-2015) Spoken Web 2.0: Conceptualizing and Prototyping a Comprehensive Web-based Digital Spoken-Word Interface for Literary Research

3. Research Team Literature professors & poets (4) Librarians (2) Computer scientists & designers (2) Historian (1) Graduate students, post-doc, research assistants (x)

4. SPOKEN WEB DEMO

5. How does what you look at while you listen affect your ability to interact with the sound archive?

6. Visual features that enhance the listening experience 1.Tethering audio-playback and written transcript 2.Sound visualization 3.Accompanying videos and images

7. Looking at archival sound: Visual features of a spoken word archive’s web interface that enhance the listening experience Annie Murray Jared Wiercinski Concordia University Montreal, Quebec, Canada September 5, 2011 International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) 42nd Annual Conference Digital Sense and Nonsense: Digital Decision Making in Sound and Audiovisual Collections Frankfurt, Germany, 3-8 September 2011

8. Knowledge dissemination

9. Current question What visual features of a sound archive’s web interface facilitate teaching and learning? To be explored at: International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres conference (2012)

10. Contact: annie.murray@concordia.ca