OLAC Record oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2017S17

Metadata
Title:		Vehicle City Voices Corpus – Part I
Access Rights:		Licensing Instructions for Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/obtaining
Bibliographic Citation:		Britt, Erica. Vehicle City Voices Corpus – Part I LDC2017S17. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2017
Contributor:		Britt, Erica
Date (W3CDTF):		2017
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2017-09-14
Description:		*Introduction* Vehicle City Voices Corpus – Part I was developed at the University of Michigan-Flint, and is an ongoing oral history project and survey of English language variation in Flint, Michigan. It contains approximately 16 hours of speech with corresponding transcripts from interviews of Flint residents conducted between 2012 and 2015. The corpus was designed to provide high-quality recordings for acoustic analysis and to examine narrative structure and discursive construction of individual and collective identity in urban spaces. *Data* This release is comprised of 21 interviews by undergraduate and graduate students for civic engagement projects in linguistics courses and by a graduate student research assistant. Participants (11 female, 10 male) were born between 1935 and 1991 and represented a range of ages, genders, and ethnicities. Of the interviewees, 11 were Black/African American, 8 were White/Caucasian, and 2 were biracial/mixed ethnic heritage. Interviews took place in various locations in Flint, including university and community spaces and a church meeting room. Questions focused on recollections of important community events, remembrances about the community, the interviewee's relationship to the auto industry and the city's physical transformation, among other topics. Sessions were recorded using Marantz PMD661 portable SD recorders with accompanying Audio-Technica AT831B lavalier condenser microphones. The original recordings were uncompressed (PCM-16) sound files stored in WAV format recorded at a sampling rate of 44,100 Hz. These files were then converted to FLAC format. Transcripts are plain text and UTF-8. Metadata (where provided by participants) includes information on gender, ethnicity, year of birth, level of education, field of employment, average income, length of time living in Flint and its surrounding areas, as well as interviewer age, gender, and ethnicity. In addition, original interview durations, edited interview durations, interview year, and transcript word counts are also provided in the metadata file. *Samples* Please view this audio sample and transcript sample. *Updates* None at this time.
Extent:		Corpus size: 1942224 KB
Format:		Sampling Rate: 44100
		Sampling Format: pcm
Identifier:		LDC2017S17
		https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2017S17
		ISBN: 1-58563-814-5
		ISLRN: 044-780-649-668-4
		DOI: 10.35111/6909-zp31
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
License:		Vehicle City Voices Corpus – Part 1 Agreement: https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/license/vehicle-city-voices-corpus-part-1-agreement.pdf
Medium:		Distribution: Web Download
Provenance:		Collected by University of Michigan-Flint in Flint, MI, USA.
Publisher:		Linguistic Data Consortium
Publisher (URI):		https://www.ldc.upenn.edu
Relation (URI):		https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/docs/LDC2017S17
Rights Holder:		Portions © 2017 The Regents of the University of Michigan, © 2017 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Type (DCMI):		Sound
		Text
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
Archive:		The LDC Corpus Catalog
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.ldc.upenn.edu
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2017S17
DateStamp:		2020-11-30
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Britt, Erica. 2017. Linguistic Data Consortium.
Terms:		area_Europe country_GB dcmi_Sound dcmi_Text iso639_eng olac_primary_text