Workshop: Introduction to the CLARIAH Media Suite

The Media Suite is one of the research environments developed within the Dutch CLARIAH research infrastructure. This workshop is geared towards familiarizing people with the Media Suite’s data, digital tools and web-based workspace. The environment provides centralized data access to a large variety of digital collections (among others, the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, Eye Filmmuseum and DANS oral history collections). Automatic data enrichments such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) of broadcast collections and optical character recognition (OCR) of historical paper collections make materials more searchable. Its web-based workspace allows researchers to create user projects where they can bookmark items and queries and annotate materials. The annotation capabilities include segmentation of images, audio and video. The environment’s tools facilitate among other approaches exploratory research and browsing, close reading and qualitative analysis as well as data-driven modes of distant reading and visualization of collection data.