# Index - Audio Transcriptions
This index is prepared for the approximately 5,000 hours of audio expected in the NOTEBOOKS archive. A complete path-level manifest for one portable subset is now preserved in [[Index - Partial Audio Archive]]; no recording has yet been transcribed into the wiki.
## Holdings inventory
| Holdings record | Coverage | Status |
|---|---|---|
| [[Index - Partial Audio Archive]] | 2,851 exact listed paths, including 2,793 recognized media files | Partial portable corpus inventoried; content not yet transcribed |
## Required catalog fields
| Field | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Canonical transcript | Link to the [[Audio Transcription]] record |
| Source filename and hash | Identifies the primary media without silently renaming it |
| Recording date and confidence | Separates embedded metadata, visible context, and inference |
| Duration and transcript coverage | Distinguishes complete recordings from excerpts |
| Speakers and confidence | Prevents uncertain voices from becoming fixed identities |
| Location and event | Connects the recording without inventing an event |
| Redactions | Protects phone numbers and credential-equivalent material |
| Chain of custody | Records edits, exports, recompression, clipping, or other transformations |
## Transcription entries
No transcript entries yet. Future records will use time-coded transcripts, exact quotations, speaker uncertainty, and links to events, people, companies, topics, journal entries, and archival addenda.