A few things I want to start rolling:
- I need to start working with my data, but I have a lot of audio that _I_
have to transcribe. This could take years. I wrote a folklorist friend
who recommended indexing first, etc. This still doesn’t get around to the fact that
my hands might fall off before I’m done.
My running idea is to use a dictation program for this process. I will listen to the
recordings, and dictate the contents to the computer. The quality of
the recordings is such that I could never (or, with currently available technology could not)
simply play the recording into the PC.
Any thoughts on whether this is a good idea/time saver/wrist saver/gives you some other ideas?
- I have kept my annotations up until this point in a BibTeX “database”. What
I’d like to do now, however, is organize my notes more; when it comes time to write, I don’t want
notes scribbled on the margins of papers (and nowhere else); instead, I’d like it
if I could somehow easily search and access my notes, and perhaps be able to
work with them and the notes I generate from the transcription process (although NUDIST will probably
be used for that effort) on the computer, even if I don’t originally take the notes there.
All of that is to say: do we have any leads on software that assists in the reading and
writing process. If we don’t, we need to
- Get the resources section going, and get the d*mn Wiki up. The former may
take a bit of effort, as it was a kludged idea of mine. However, I did have something
that would let people in disparate places maintain the resources section, which is necessary.
I think I’m going to do those things in reverse order; I’m going to get the
resources software working and push that out to the CS-ED.org participants.
Then, I’m going to collect the information I can on reading and writing tools, and
in parallel I’m going to see about starting in on the transcription with dictation
software. ViaVoice (dictation only) costs something $50 US, so that might be a start.
Thoughts?
M