Written by some of the most noted experts in the field, the following texts are designed to give you the latest information on best practices in curating oral histories. As micro-essays and case studies, the texts are designed to be easily updated and revised as technologies change. You are invited to leave your comments or turn to our OHDA Wiki to leave your own updates and perspectives on the issues raised. Find out more about the authors.
- Oral History in the Digital Age: Project Overview, Dean Rehberger
- Oral History in the Video Age, Peter B. Kaufman
- Oral History In the Digital Age: The Imperative for Rethinking Best Practices based on a Survey of the Field(s), Steve Cohen, Brad Rakerd, Doug Boyd, Dean Rehberger
Curating
- Oral History Curation in the Digital Age: A Framework for Choices and Planning, Michael Frisch, Douglas Lambert, Mark Tebeau, and Erin Bell
- The Preservation of Analog Oral History Collections through Digitization, Sarah Cunningham
- Metadata: Best Practices for Oral History Access and Preservation, Elinor A. Mazé
- “Oral History Core”: An Idea for a Metadata Scheme, Nancy Mackay
- Transcribing Oral History in the Digital Age, Linda Shopes
- Informed Accessioning: Questions to Ask After the Interview, Doug Boyd
- The Preservation of Analog Video through Digitization, Scott Pennington
- Collection Management Systems: Tools for Managing Oral History Collections, Sara Price
- Digital Video Preservation and Oral History, Kara Van Malssen
- Can Automatic Speech Recognition Replace Manual Transcription?, Douglas W. Oard
- Major Legal Challenges Facing Oral History In The Digital Age, John Neuenschwander
- A Shifting Paradigm: Intellectual Property Issues for Oral History in the Digital Age, Sheldon Halpern
- Who Owns Oral History? A Creative Commons Solution, Jack Dougherty and Candace Simpson
- The Digital Mortgage: Digital Preservation of Oral History, Doug Boyd
- File Naming in the Digital Age, Dean Rehberger and Brendan Coates
- Meaningful access to audio and video passages: A two-tiered approach for annotation, navigation, and cross-referencing within and across oral history interviews, Douglas Lambert
- Curating for a User Centered Approach, Michael Frisch and Douglas Lambert, (Forthcoming, Oral History Review Volume 40 Issue 1 Summer:Fall 2013, Oxford University Press)
- Indexing an Interview in OHMS: An Overview, Doug Boyd, Danielle Gabbard, Sara Price, and Alana Boltz
- The OHA Metadata Task Force: The Force Behind Our Task, Lauren Kata, Cyns Nelson
- Case Study: New Roots: An Oral History Metadata Case Study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jaycie Vos
- Case Study: Metadata at BUIOH, Steven Sielaff
- Case Study: Is Perfect the Enemy of Good Enough? Digital Video Preservation in the Age of Declining Budgets, Doug Boyd
- Case Study: Protecting IP Rights to Life Histories, Peggy Bulger
- Case Study: Born Digital Accession Workflow: The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Doug Boyd and Sara Abdmishani Price
- Case Study: Curating Tribal Collections, Elizabeth Lowman and Robin Kilgo
- Case Study: Transcripts, Time-Coding, and You, Michael Sesling
- Case Study: Baylor Institute for Oral History, Elinor Mazé
- Case Study: Noise Reduction and Restoration for Oral History: The Stars of Ballymenone, Doug Boyd
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