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Dale Yoachim. Yang, Yang, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2009-08-26T16:44:06Z 2009-08-26T16:44:06Z 2008 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46532 416577062 Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-63). The growth of the World Wide Web has been accompanied by a proliferation of rich, time-based media such as audio and video documents. However, the ability to categorize and index these documents has not improved comparably, a limitation for humans and machines alike to browsing, retrieving, and making sense of them. Motivated by a need to collect and annote natural sounds, this thesis proposes a web-based audio annotation system and describes its design and implementation. Users upload audio using a browser or via cell phone stream, and add timed annotations in the form of comments, tags, or metadata. Plug-ins allow custom scripts to parse metadata and add functionality to the user interface. Finally, applications in the fields of environmental monitoring, oral histories, and music performance and analysis are described. In particular, the flexibility of cell phones and adaptability of plug-ins makes the system applicable to other disciplines and is the main contribution of this work. by Yang Yang. M.Eng. 63 p. eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. An extensible Web tool for the collection, sharing, and annotation of audio documents Thesis application/pdf false Publication unknown unknown <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="5f9f020a-2cc5-4ec5-9c03-a3256b3de2b3"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>eng</Language> <Title>An extensible Web tool for the collection, sharing, and annotation of audio documents</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2008</PublicationDate> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Yang, Yang, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582</License> <Keyword>Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.</Keyword> <Abstract>The growth of the World Wide Web has been accompanied by a proliferation of rich, time-based media such as audio and video documents. However, the ability to categorize and index these documents has not improved comparably, a limitation for humans and machines alike to browsing, retrieving, and making sense of them. Motivated by a need to collect and annote natural sounds, this thesis proposes a web-based audio annotation system and describes its design and implementation. Users upload audio using a browser or via cell phone stream, and add timed annotations in the form of comments, tags, or metadata. Plug-ins allow custom scripts to parse metadata and add functionality to the user interface. Finally, applications in the fields of environmental monitoring, oral histories, and music performance and analysis are described. In particular, the flexibility of cell phones and adaptability of plug-ins makes the system applicable to other disciplines and is the main contribution of this work.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>