Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 15:45:42 -0400 From: Eric Lease Morgan <mailto:eric_morgan@NCSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Music to My Ears: Auditory Functionality in Web OPACs To: mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU
Gerry McKiernan wrote: > Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 18:21:58 CST
> From: Gerry McKiernan <mailto:JL.GJM@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU>
> Subject: Music to My Ears: Auditory Functionality in Web OPACs
> ...
> While I am finding that there are a number of relevant
> projects relating to Auditory Display in a variety of contexts
> including some in the focus area of _The Next WAVe(sm),
> I have not yet identified project that apply Auditory Display (AD)
> technologies to OPAC searching and navigation. While I believe
> that in the near future that the types of sophisticated AD
> techniques will be incorporated with OPACs and other bibliographic
> systems, I am interested in knowing the current technological and
> organizational baseline for Auditory functionality...
When I saw this posting, I realized I had done something along these lines in 1993. I have brought that something out of hibernation, and you can read about it, Speakable OPAC, from the following URL:
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/speakable-opac/
-- Eric Lease Morgan Department for Digital Library Initiatives, NCSU Libraries http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/