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: “Visualizing Oral History” by Mark Tebeau The oxymoron embedded in the title reveals the contradiction behind any attempt to “visualize” oral history for historical curation. One could argue that oral history and, more broadly, sound, are such fundamentally aural experiences that they can’t be visualized at all. Even so, for historians, the meaning and …
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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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Case Study: The Kentucky Oral History Commission — the Digital Shift by Sarah Milligan Looking back over a 35+ year granting agency specifically designed to support the documentation of oral history interviews, there have been many changes and adaptations to needs, both cultural and technological. My entrance into the Kentucky Oral History Commission (KOHC) staff …
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