In this introductory webinar, Christian Olesen, Media Suite Teaching & Training Officer, will guide you through the tools and functionalities of the CLARIAH Media Suite enabling you to create, annotate and analyze your own corpus of digital materials.

The Media Suite is one of the research environments developed within the Dutch CLARIAH research infrastructure. As an innovative digital research environment, the Media Suite is a networked, university-level access point to a large variety of digital collections – comprising key broadcast, film, paper and oral history collections from NISV, Eye Filmmuseum and DANS. Moreover the environment offers new ways of browsing, searching and analyzing the collections made available with digital tools developed specifically for the environment.

The environment’s tools facilitate, among others, exploratory research and browsing, close reading and qualitative analysis based on video annotation tools, as well as data-driven modes of distant reading and visualization of collection data. Beyond digitized collection items – amounting to a couple of million of audiovisual items – the environment is also the unique access point to automatic data enrichments, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) data of broadcast collections and optical character recognition (OCR) of historical paper collections.

Level

This session is intended for beginners.

Preparation

Consider watching this 15-minute tutorial prior to webinar to gain a general sense and overview of the collections available in the Media Suite. A list of available collections, with links to descriptions can be found here.

Registration

Join the webinar by registering here.