Oral History in the Digital Age

Connecting the Classroom and the Archive: Oral History, Pedagogy, & Goin’ North

dboyd — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 02:09:12 +0000

Connecting the Classroom and the Archive: Oral History, Pedagogy, & Goin’ North By Janneken Smucker, Doug Boyd, Charles Hardy III The Fall 2014 and Spring 2016 West Chester University (WCU) course “The Great Migration and Digital Storytelling,” (aka, Goin’ North) centered on a archival collection of oral history interviews conducted in the 1980s with African …

New Roots: An Oral History Metadata Case Study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

dboyd — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:30:52 +0000

New Roots: An Oral History Metadata Case Study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by Jaycie Vos Since 2007, faculty, staff, and students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) have conducted oral history interviews focused on issues relating to Latino migration to North Carolina and the formation of …

Case Study: Metadata at BUIOH

dboyd — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:26:26 +0000

Metadata at BUIOH: A Case Study By Steven Sielaff This case study is concerned with the use of descriptive metadata for online oral history collections created in a content management system, or CMS. It will highlight the Baylor University Institute for Oral History (BUIOH) and their history in uploading and describing their digital collection of …

The OHA Metadata Task Force: The Force Behind Our Task

dboyd — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:25:31 +0000

The OHA Metadata Task Force: The Force Behind Our Task By Cyns Nelson, Lauren Kata This I Believe: A Micro Essay Not About Metadata by Cyns Nelson I believe in the power of information to improve the human condition I believe that first-hand accounts present the most impacting kind of information I believe that oral …

Informed Accessioning: Questions to Ask After the Interview

dboyd — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 18:36:36 +0000

Informed Accessioning: Questions to Ask After the Interview By Doug Boyd Overview I am, and continue to be, a strong advocate for effectively using the Internet for enhancing access to our rich collections of archived oral histories that have long languished on the physical and virtual shelves. I developed OHMS (the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) as an impulse …

Indexing Interviews in OHMS

dboyd — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:24:45 +0000

Indexing Interviews in OHMS: An Overview By Doug Boyd, Danielle Gabbard, Sarah Price, and Alana Boltz Overview OHMS is an online tool for enhancing access to online oral histories created by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. Through a grant form the IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library …

The Oral History Review

admin — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:53:59 +0000

Volume 40 (Issue 1 Winter-Spring 2013) of the Oral History Review is a special issue that builds on and extends the work of the Oral History in the Digital Age (OHDA) Project. That project began with a grant proposal to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in the National Leadership Grants category. The …

Human Subjects and IRB Review

nick — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:47:54 +0000

Human Subjects and IRB Review Oral History, Human Subjects, and Institutional Review Boards by Linda Shopes Since at least the mid-1990s, college and university students, faculty, and staff who conduct oral history interviews have increasingly found their interviewing protocols subject to review by their local Institutional Review Board (commonly referred to as an IRB), a …

Making Sense of Oral History

nick — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:03:37 +0000

Making Sense of Oral History by Linda Shopes Making Sense of Oral History offers a place for students and teachers to begin working with oral history interviews as historical evidence. Written by Linda Shopes, this guide presents an overview of oral history and ways historians use it, tips on what questions to ask when reading …

Thinking Big: Don Ritchie

dboyd — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:53:04 +0000

This episode of “Thinking Big” features Don Ritchie, United States Senate Historian and author of “Doing Oral History.” Ritchie discusses the impact of digital technologies on the practice of oral history. Tweet