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The historical nature of JPUA
While its content is relevant and authoritative, JPUA is not a conventional
informational Web site. Rather, it is the digital version of an outreach program
undertaken in the late 1970s (see Project History).
The student must keep this in mind while viewing Web content
and listening to the lectures. Cited sources are limited to those available at
that time, and while efforts are underway to include additional up-to-date
information, the primary course pages still present the original 1980s biographies.
The Tips and Discussion
Guide pages have also been copied directly from original materials.
While this might seem misleading, it fits our mission to re-create the
original project in a new format. Including outright errors, however, is not a part
of the digitization plan, and they have been eliminated where they have been
discovered. You are encouraged to participate in the editorial process; please
send any questions, comments, suggestions, or errors to
jpua@touro.edu.
The digitization process
All aspects of the JPUA digitization were conducted by Touro College Libraries
talent with onsite equipment, some of which was purchased specially for this project.
To make JPUA available online, the original open reel tapes were converted
to digital format. These original recordings were made on 1/4-inch (0.64 cm),
2-track monaural magnetic tape at 7-1/2 inches per second (19 cm/sec) and stored
on 7-inch (17.8 cm) reels. The tapes were first brushed clean of dust, then baked in a food dehydrator to remove excess moisture. They were played
back on a TEAC A-3300SX tape deck. The signal was run through a
Griffin
Technology iMic USB Audio Interface via a
Monster cable adapter.
Adobe Audition 2.0 was
used to record and edit raw files. WAV masters were created using 32-bit, 44.1
kHz sampling, from which the end-user RealAudio files were made. More details can be obtained by clicking the "Metadata" links in the individual lectures.
The original 5-1/2 x 8-1/2-inch companion booklets were scanned, passed through
OCR software, and edited. This text was transformed into XML files using
XMLSpy Home Edition. XSLT
stylesheets were then developed to transform this raw content into the course pages
on the site. ASP scripts allow us to pass XSLT parameters dynamically and integrate
the result with the Touro College Web site.
We welcome questions about our project at
jpua@touro.edu.
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