Admin

Author's details

Date registered: November 22, 2011

Latest posts

  1. Reservoir of Memories — July 27, 2012
  2. Mapping — July 27, 2012
  3. Video Age — July 25, 2012
  4. Overview — July 20, 2012
  5. OHDA Survey — July 20, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. On the Differences between Folklore Fieldwork and Oral History — 1 comment

Author's posts listings

Reservoir of Memories

1

Reservoir of Memories: A Student Oral History Project in Providence By Anna Wada and Nate Weisenberg In the fall of 2011, the two of us—along with fourteen other students, both graduates and undergraduates, in the Oral History and Community Memory class co-taught by oral historian Anne Valk and artist Holly Ewald—began an oral history project …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/07/reservoir-of-memories/

Mapping

Mapping Approaches To Oral History Content Management In The Digital Age By Michael Frisch, with Douglas Lambert Almost every traditional assumption about the collecting, curation, and uses of oral history is collapsing in the digital age. This is particularly true for a content management:  providing meaningful access to specific content within and across long oral …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/07/mapping/

Video Age

Case Study: Oral History in the Video Age By Peter B. Kaufman Intelligent Television Picture an airplane flight across an ocean at night: as the sky darkens, dinner is served, and then the most noticeable thing about the plane is almost everyone sitting lit by the video screens in front of them.  In many ways …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/07/video-age/

Overview

Oral History in the Digital Age: Project Overview By Dean Rehberger   You can view a Webwise video that introduces and gives and overview of Oral History in the Digital Age.  The following is a text version of the presentation.   Coming soon Tweet

Permanent link to this article: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/07/overview/

OHDA Survey

figure1survey

Oral History In the Digital Age: The Imperative for Rethinking Best Practices based on a Survey of the Field(s)  by Steve Cohen, Brad Rakerd, Doug Boyd, Dean Rehberger OHDA was generously funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, an agency signed into law in 1996, bringing together the Institute of Museums Services and the Library …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/07/ohda-survey/

What Do You Think You Own

What Do You Think You Own, or Legal/Ethical Concerns by Troy Reeves The title for this essay comes from the “question of the Oral History in the Digital Age symposium.” That meeting, in November 2010, brought together all of the key players in Oral History in the Digital Age, the multi-year, Institute of Museum and …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/what-do-you-think-you-own/

Civil Rights Oral History

Case Study: The Civil Rights Oral History Survey Project by Timothy Lloyd A critical first step in any research project, and an excellent means for gaining at least a beginning form of intellectual control over one’s subject, is to survey the research that has already been done on the topic. This report summarizes a recent …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/civil-rights-oral-history/

Arab American National Museum

Case Study: Why Oral History Matters The Experience of the Arab American National Museum by Anan Ameri The last few decades has witnessed the creation of a number of ethnic museums, such as the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/arab-american-national-museum/

Permanent link to this article: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/mining-oral-history-for-enhanced-access/

Visualizing Oral History

visual1

Case Study: “Visualizing Oral History” by Mark Tebeau The oxymoron embedded in the title reveals the contradiction behind any attempt to “visualize” oral history for historical curation. One could argue that oral history and, more broadly, sound, are such fundamentally aural experiences that they can’t be visualized at all. Even so, for historians, the meaning and …

Continue reading »

Permanent link to this article: http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/visualizing-oral-history/

Older posts «