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my name's Louise
courting I work in a data

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archive the curate state of
a social scientists in the

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UK our collection spans
a huge variety of material

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from from the twentieth century
covering some very large surveys

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through too many quilts that's
a quality material now in

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the UK I think many
social scientists have come

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to use our collections are
predominately obsessed with using text

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so we have a few audio
recordings that are typically

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not consulted in a multi
media age in a digital

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age shall we should be thinking
more about enabling them

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to access these materials
unfortunately some of the the ways

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of delivery and the mode of
accessing this material it's

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actually quite a barrier for
for researchers to come and

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use that I think with the
advent of speech technology

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and retrieval methods
we will be able to do so

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so much more and enable
them to go one step

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forward and not just use
the flat text so want

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to give an example of about
wonderful data set that

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we have and that was conducted
in the nineteen seventies

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as part of a large
research study and that was

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interviews with about five hundred
people mainly from working class

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cities and rural areas
in the UK and it

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was looking at the edwardian
period in england and that's

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the first decade of the twentieth
century asking people to

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think about life at home work
politics religion so many

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marion many emotional areas
were covered and you think about

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it this was done in the
seventies they were asked

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to reflect on the period
before the first world war

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but actually they're asked to
reflect before that period and

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they were not encouraged
to talk about the war itself

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so it's a huge rich
collection and it's been used

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many many times but it's
only the tax that's been

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accessed and if you think
about the amount of emotion

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that's in the text and the
local dialect would have

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been used at the time
that's not exploited and I

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feel that that could be very
rich exploited one example

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of an interesting way of
using the material was um

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a guy called micro person
who looked at that used

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to psychoanalytic and
styled had to go and look at

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older material from from
the first world war and he

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was looking at soldier's
experiences of being in the trenches

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and how their relationships with
their families help mediate against

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that the stress the stress
of the facts of that

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but you just use the
text and you can imagine

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that having access to the
rich material the audio people

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talking about very emotional
experiences I think you would get

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a much a much enriched
experience from that so I

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would like to think that
we can go forward and

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offer and people are much
more than flat text another

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example that he had many photographs
from this collection which

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are not used at all and and if you think

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if you put together the
audio the images the taxed

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you can have an enriched
situation so I really hope

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that that is the future
we can use for the

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speech and language technologies to
encourage a social scientist sister

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to think a little bit more creatively