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What Do You Think You Own, or Legal/Ethical Concerns by Troy Reeves The title for this essay comes from the “question of the Oral History in the Digital Age symposium.” That meeting, in November 2010, brought together all of the key players in Oral History in the Digital Age, the multi-year, Institute of Museum and …
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Meaningful access to audio and video passages: A two-tiered approach for annotation, navigation, and cross-referencing within and across oral history interviews by Doug Lambert and Michael Frisch Abstract Despite the use of digital technology for recordings and the opportunity for online retrieval, meaningful access to recorded oral history collections still requires an approach to– and …
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Shifting Questions: Re-examining the Need to Listen by Steve Cohen (Forthcoming, Oral History Review Volume 40 Issue 1 Summer:Fall 2013, Oxford University Press) I am not a oral historian, but I have had the privilege of being a project evaluator on several large oral history grants over the last 10 years. And so I …
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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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Can Automatic Speech Recognition Replace Manual Transcription? by Doug Oard, University of Maryland, College Park We’ve all heard of systems like Apple’s Siri that can automatically recognize what we say and wondered whether we might use this “Automatic Speech Recognition” (ASR) technology to replace the tedious process of manually transcribing oral history interviews. As with …
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Transcribing Oral History in the Digital Age by Linda Shopes Background Transcribing, that is, representing in print that which has been spoken, has long been established as one of oral history’s best practices. Transcribing is related to oral history’s origins and development as an archival practice with the goal creating documents for future use …
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