Tag: digital preservation
OHMS: Enhancing Access to Oral History for Free by Doug Boyd Since finding a home in digitized, networked archives, oral history has grown as a resource for historical and cultural documentation by both academic as well as community scholars. Yet it still remains underutilized. Why? Because oral history can be a cumbersome resource to use, …
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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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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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