Digital Storytelling and DH
Part 1: Introductions
- Matrix: https://matrix.msu.edu
- OHDA: /
Part 2: Sign Up for Will to Adorn and Explore
- Sign up for Will to Adorn: https://willtoadorn.ning.com/?xgi=4DYYniJ6GxNbIr
- Explore the site (look at each page of the to navigation bar)
- Play you can’t break it
- Chat with others online (through the site)
- Add a profile picture.
Part 3: Digital Storytelling
- Equipment: https://padcaster.com/
- DIRT: https://dirtdirectory.org/
- Thinking Big: /2012/06/thinking-big-terrell-frazier/
- Three Point Lighting: /2012/06/the-art-of-lighting-for-recording-video/
- Microphone effects: /2012/06/microphones-and-room-effects/
- Immigrant Stories: https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories
- NYLP Oral History https://oralhistory.nypl.org/
- Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America”
https://braceroarchive.org/ - Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita:
https://hurricanearchive.org/ - Gulag History gulaghistory.org
- Teaching Site – Children & Youth in History chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/
- Neatline – neatline.org/demos
Part 4: Return to Will to Adorn
- We will do a number activities on Will to Adorn site: https://willtoadorn.ning.com/
Part : Other Sources
- New site: will-to-adorn.matrix.msu.edu
- Getting Started in the Digital Humanities with Digital Storytelling and the Immigrant Stories Project: https://programminghistorian.org/posts/digital-storytelling-immigrant-stories
- Turning Technophobia Through Digital Storytelling: https://www.nmc.org/blog/turning-technophobia-through-digital-storytelling/
- Sounds & DH Class: https://dhsi.org/content/2016Curriculum/30.%20Sounds%20and%20Digital%20Humanities%20(2016).pdf
- Oral History Dissemination and Preservation
We will not do this today but here for you to use.
Part 1: Oral History in the Digital Age
- /featured-resources/siworkshop/
- /
- /best-practices/
Mobile and contextual practices: Doing the best on can given knowledge and resources - /gettingstarted/glossary/
Glossary - /gettingstarted/glossary/videoglossary/
- /gettingstarted/
Playlists
- /gettingstarted/playlists/cataloging-and-metadata/
- /2012/06/collection-management-systems/
Pros and Cons - /2012/06/oral-history-core/
Metadata for your type of institution: context - /gettingstarted/playlists/digital-preservation/
- /2012/06/digital-video-preservation-and-oral-history/
Unpacking technical terminology - /thinkingbig/
- /2012/06/thinking-big-kara-van-malssen/
- /essays/
- /doug/
- /featured-resources/
- /wp-content/uploads/2012/06/born_digital.pdf
- https://wiki.ohda.matrix.msu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
- https://wiki.ohda.matrix.msu.edu/index.php/Best_Practices
- /dbsearch/index.php
Search: How to transcribe - https://wiki.ohda.matrix.msu.edu/index.php/Nebraska
Determine primary sources - https://wiki.ohda.matrix.msu.edu/index.php/Sites
380 sites: explore like organizations
Examples
- Studs: https://studsterkel.matrix.msu.edu/
Value added access to full record but not all recordings - https://flint.matrix.msu.edu/
Locked into technology - https://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/
Complex objects on output: funding and access - Video-Audio Barn: https://avbarn.museum.state.il.us/
Variety of access: location - Densho: https://www.densho.org/archive/default.asp
Registered users - American South: https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/I-0081/menu.html
Fine tuning access - NYLP Oral History https://oralhistory.nypl.org/
Crowdsourcing - OHMs: https://www.nunncenter.org/c2ky/
https://www.nunncenter.org/c2ky/2012/01/15/james-owens-iii/
https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/interviews/26946
https://www.nunncenter.org/OHMS-Viewer/viewer.php?cachefile=2011oh175_ww381_owens_ohm.xml
Part II: OHMS
- https://www.oralhistoryonline.org/
- https://ohms.uky.edu/
- Best Practices
Starting New: Metadata
/2012/06/metadata/ - Index
Time Stamp: beginning of Question (sometimes — but complex)
Titling: Meaningful and topics
Subjects: Controlled Vocabulary
Keywords: Natural Language ( Thesaurus)
Synopsis: express complex ideas not conveyed in keywords - Decide on level of indexing
Part III: Digital Repository and CMS — Drupal, WordPress, Omeka
Drupal
- Audio-Video Barn, Oral History of Illinois Agriculture
https://avbarn.museum.state.il.us/ - Stories Matter
https://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/ - Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia
https://www.jewishmuseum.ca/ - Noxubee County Library
- Drupal
https://drupal.org
WordPress:
- Durban Sings:
https://durbansings.wordpress.com/about/ - Guernsey Evacuees Oral History:
https://guernseyevacuees.wordpress.com/ - Transgender Oral History Project:
https://www.transoralhistory.com/ - Stories To Tell Blog:
https://www.storiestotellonline.com/wordpress/?cat=8 - WordPress.com
https://wordpress.com - WordPress Themes
https://wordpress.org/themes/search/audio/
Content DM
- Baylor Digital Collections
https://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/buioh - Ohio Memory
https://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15005coll37 - University of Victoria
https://contentdm.library.uvic.ca/cdm/landingpage/collection/collection13 - Contentdm
https://www.oclc.org/en-US/contentdm.html
Omeka
- Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artefacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America”
https://braceroarchive.org/ - Hurrican Digital Memory Bank: Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita:
https://hurricanearchive.org/ - A Look Back at Braddock District Fairfax County, Virginiahttps://braddockheritage.org/
- Gulag History gulaghistory.org
- Teaching Site – Children & Youth in History chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/
- Neatline – neatline.org/demos
- More – omeka.org/plugins
- OMEKA
https://omeka.org/ - Curatescape: https://curatescape.org/projects/
- Projects: https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/68#.WBqPXuErK7Y
Part IV: Preservation Test Sound and Video
- Audio Preservation:
https://cool.conservation-us.org/bytopic/audio/
Video preservation:
https://cool.conservation-us.org/bytopic/video/
Motion Picture Film:
https://cool.conservation-us.org/bytopic/motion-pictures/ - National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats/audio-video-resources.html - PrestoCentre
PrestoCentre Library https://www.prestocentre.org/library - Refining Conversion Contract Specifications: Determining
Suitable Digital Video Formats for Medium-term Storage.
https://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/audio-visual/documents/IntrmMastVidFormatRecs_20111001.pdf - Minimum Digitization Capture Recommendations
https://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/preserv/minimum-digitization-capture-recommendations - Digitizing Video for Long-Term Preservation
https://library.nyu.edu/preservation/VARRFP.pdf
Part V: Extra Resources
- BlackMagic
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/intensity - Express Scribe
https://www.nch.com.au/scribe/ - Audacity
https://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - Legal Issues
/2012/06/major-legal-challenges/
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