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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 …
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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 …
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Case Study: Mining Oral History for Enhanced Access by Jody Perkins and Becky Yoose Jody Perkins, Miami University Libraries, Oxford, OH Becky Yoose, Miami University/Grinnell College Libraries, Grinnell, IA* *Becky was working at Miami University during the project. She has since started working at Grinnell College. This paper was presented as a poster at the Society …
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Enhancing Discovery: Connecting Users to Your Oral History Collections Online by Doug Boyd Users and researchers need to first find our collections before they can explore, connect with, and engage the content contained within individual oral histories. The Internet has certainly made it dramatically easier for the world to find and use our materials. Prior …
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Case Study: Baylor Institute for Oral History by Elinor Mazé When the Baylor University Program for Oral History (now Baylor University Institute for Oral History) was created in 1970, three strategic decisions shaped its practice and product for the decades to come. These decisions were, first, that every oral history interview created or acquired would …
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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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Oral History Curation in the Digital Age: A Framework for Choices and Planning by Michael Frisch, Douglas Lambert, Mark Tebeau, and Erin Bell What are the best practices for oral history curation in the digital age? The answer is simple, and always exactly the same: “It depends.” What it depends on, for any institution or …
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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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Designing a National Online Oral History Collecting Initiative: The Occupational Folklore Project at the American Folklife Center by Nancy Groce and Betram Lyons This article introduces the Occupational Folklore Project, a multi-year oral history initiative that seeks to capture a portrait of America’s workforce, at a time of economic transition, through interviews with workers across …
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