Category: Preservation
Transcribing Oral History in the Digital Age by Linda Shopes Background Transcribing, that is, representing in print that which has been spoken, has long been established as one of oral history’s best practices. Transcribing is related to oral history’s origins and development as an archival practice with the goal creating documents for future use …
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“Oral History Core”: An Idea for a Metadata Scheme by Nancy MacKay In the twenty-first century, the need to organize, preserve, access, and share information is no longer a matter for discussion. It is a given. In no other field is the disconnect between the creators and the curators more strongly felt than in oral …
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Metadata: Best Practices for Oral History Access and Preservation by Elinor A. Mazé Senior Editor Baylor University Institute for Oral History In its Principles for Oral History and Best Practices for Oral History, the Oral History Association includes the following: Interviewers, sponsoring institutions, and institutions charged with the preservation of oral history interviews should understand that …
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The Preservation of Analog Oral History Collections through Digitization by Sarah Cunningham The deterioration of analog sound carriers is a significant danger to Oral History Collections. This dilemma coupled with the obsolescence of vintage playback creates a need for the digitization of oral history recordings. In addition to preserving recordings, most archives have a …
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Case Study: Interviewer-Generated Metadata by Doug Boyd In the old days, interviewers conducted the interviews, stored them in a box of cassettes for some time, and, eventually, deposited the interviews into an archive where the archivists took over the responsibility for curation, preservation, and future access. In the analog world, it was common for a …
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Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries has written on his blog Digital Omnium a post about the importance of checksums and the digital preservation of oral history. The post, titled : A Simple Act of Digital Preservation: The Checksum and Oral History, features a video introduction/tutorial. Tweet
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