Digital Oral History Workshop
Oral History and Digital Technologies.
For today's oral historians, digital technology has eliminated the distinction between the creation or collection of oral history and the management of it. Digital expertise is required at every stage of the oral history process; it is needed for recording interviews, for designing and creating intermediate and end products, and for managing preservation and access.
The following topics will guide you to foundational principles in selecting and using digital equipment and software for recording, preserving, and disseminating oral history. Viewing and printing the topics requires Adobe AcrobatİReader. Click here to install a free trial copy.
Digital Audio Recording. Links to guides and tutorials on digital recording; principles for selecting digital recorders and microphones; lists of equipment with recommended features; recommendations for editing and transcribing digital audio recordings, including recommended software
Digital Video Recording. Principles for creating effective videos, including managing sound and lighting; recommendations for selecting microphones, media, camcorders, and video editing software, with links to major manufacturers and vendors; additional resources on video oral history
Digitization and Oral History. Online sources of information about digitizing open-reel or cassette tapes and typewritten transcripts; suggestions for prioritizing materials for digitization and assessing conditions of analog tapes; standards and guidelines for audio digitization and preservation; audio digitization and editing systems; workflow chart for digitizing analog tapes; bibliography on digitization of audio recordings, metadata for digital and digitized resources, and XML editors; links to digitization vendors
Archiving Digital Oral History. Principles and links to sources for storing and preserving digital oral history; documenting born-digital and digitized oral history; general metadata schemas; document encoding; digital content management systems
Digital Oral History Online: Projects, Centers, Resources. Links to centers, sites, and resources for help, guidance, and training in digital oral history and for examples of oral history on the Web
Funding for Digital Oral History. Suggested preparations for developing fundable oral history projects and descriptions and links to potential funding sources
Glossary for Digital Oral History. Explanations of terms oral historians encounter in digital recording and digitization
Digital technology is in constant flux. We will endeavor to keep these pages as current as possible. Please contact us
