Come learn how NPR’s Research, Archives & Data Strategy (RAD) team tackles iterative change while maintaining an active production pipeline. NPR’s production archives rely on automated ingest and export of data from various sources, including internal story and content APIs, XML from transcript vendors, and internal publishing APIs. This poster will walk through the current digital transformation taking place both within and outside of the archives to optimize and strengthen these connections, move away from legacy system architectures, and reduce manual processing steps for information specialists. Learn about our previous technical solutions, current infrastructure decisions and changes, and RAD’s necessary future work. We would love to chat about NPR’s archives and transcripts data processing workflows, how technical changes are made within organizations, and how other archives are managing their descriptive records and audiovisual data!
