@inproceedings{844de98e6f234c669cbcca702aaf3f23,
title = "A graphical interface for the dodge poetry festival archive",
abstract = "The Dodge Poetry Festival is a biennial four-day event at which American and international poets read their own poetry out loud to relatively large, attentive audiences. In this paper, we report on a prototype graphical interface designed to let users access high quality video recordings of these poetry readings. The goal is to create an interface that draws high school students in particular into the experience of listening to poetry. This prototype is the first step in a plan to build a working system for a small portion of the Archive collection that can then be realistically evaluated. From a historical perspective, the archive provides a high-quality record of poets of the late 20th and early 21st centuries reading their own poems and and discussing their work with festival attendees.",
keywords = "Digital-libraries-and-archives, Education, Users-and-interactive-retrieval",
author = "Nina Wacholder and {Grey Valenti}, M. and Nicholas Provenzano",
note = "Funding Information: The assessment of the prototype will inform the creation of a professional quality working system in which the interface is linked to a subset of the archive{\textquoteright}s poems, with metadata to support a realistic evaluation of the interface and the system itself. In the evaluation, high school students will use the interface to find poems or poets to write about for an English class assignment. Assessment will be based on the students{\textquoteright} comfort with the graphical interface and on their satisfaction with the poems they have found. Other user scenarios will be tested as well. For example, festival attendees will be asked to find a poem that they heard at the festival but don{\textquoteright}t remember very clearly. Some participants will try to find a poem they would be comfortable reading at an event such as a wedding or a funeral. Finally, poets will be asked to assess the interface{\textquoteright}s usefulness and usability for their own exploration of the collection. This initial working version will also allow development and testing of solutions to practical problems such as the increasing complexity of the graphical display as the number of subjects, poems, and poets and the quantity of metadata grow. The interface will be built to stand alone so that it can also be used to explore other poetry collections such as those created by automatic classification (e.g., Kaur and Sani (2010) [1] and Choi, Lee and Downey (2015) [2]). We will also explore the possibility of automatic identification of themes. The long-term goal of building an interface that can pull out rich library quality metadata for the entire archive collection is admittedly an ambitious project that will not be finished any time soon. At a minimum we hope development and assessment of the prototype interface will lead to the building of a working system based on the design of the prototype. Ultimately, we hope to make public an appealing graphical interface that provides access to all of the video and audio recordings in the Dodge Foundation Poetry Festival Archive. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Research on this project was funded by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. We are particularly grateful for the inspiration and encouragement provided by Martin Farawell, Director of the Dodge Poetry Program. We also thank the many Rutgers University Master of Information students and alumni who have contributed to different phases of this project. The authors of this paper are solely responsible for its content. Funding Information: Research on this project was funded by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. We are particularly grateful for the inspiration and encouragement provided by Martin Farawell, Director of the Dodge Poetry Program. We also thank the many Rutgers University Master of Information students and alumni who have contributed to different phases of this project. The authors of this paper are solely responsible for its content. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 19th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2019 ; Conference date: 02-06-2019 Through 06-06-2019",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1109/JCDL.2019.00123",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "461--462",
editor = "Maria Bonn and Dan Wu and Downie, {Stephen J.} and Alain Martaus",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2019",
address = "United States",
}