UGA Libraries to enhance access to archives on local urban renewal projects
President’s Office to provide special funding for two-year digitization project.
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President’s Office to provide special funding for two-year digitization project.
This week's look ahead features a Beechwood Holiday Market, the reopening of Athens on Ice, an Athens Farmers Market Holiday Artist Market and events from the University of Georgia’s 2021
It’s a labor-intensive process that sometimes only humans can do. The broadcasts were submitted for the Peabody Awards, the prestigious honor that’s based at UGA. The tapes range from the 1940s to the 1990s. Hours and hours of these local broadcasts have been transferred from their original format to digital. Now an effort is underway to transcribe them. Mary Miller, an archivist with the Peabody Awards Collection, says some of that can be done by computer, but it’s not always perfect, and that’s where people come in. “Just the amount of time it takes to correct these transcripts. I...