It’s time for another edition of Archiving AK, Federal Lands with Becky and Luna! For this episode, they take a closer look at the process of digitizing tapes from the Commonwealth North records and discuss the possibilities and challenges of AI transcription. If you missed our blog post about the project or our previous podcast episodes, be sure to check them out.
Here’s the link to the Commonwealth North records finding aid.
Compare the AI transcriptions for this episode yourself! Here’s the unedited version and then here’s the cleaned up version.
We should also mention that we retain the original tapes after we digitize them — even items that are sent off-site return to the Archives for long-term safekeeping.
Cover image for episode: “Walter Hickel is participating in a blanket toss at Igloo-puk.” circa 1966. Henry S. Kaiser Jr. papers, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage.