Written by some of the most noted experts in the field, the following texts are designed to give you the latest information on best practices in collecting, curating, and disseminating oral histories. As micro-essays and case studies, the texts are designed to be easily updated and revised as technologies change.
- Oral History in the Digital Age: Project Overview, Dean Rehberger
- Oral History In the Digital Age: The Imperative for Rethinking Best Practices based on a Survey of the Field(s), Steve Cohen, Brad Rakerd, Doug Boyd, Dean Rehberger
Collecting
- “Collecting in the Digital Age”: An Overview, Charles Hardy III and Doug Boyd
- Designing an Oral History Project: Initial Questions to Ask Yourself, Doug Boyd
- Project Planning and Management, Marsha MacDowell
- Making Sense of Oral History, Linda Shopes
- Audio or Video for Recording Oral History: Questions, Decisions, Doug Boyd
- On the Differences between Folklore Fieldwork and Oral History, Tim Lloyd
- “No One Wants the Maintenance Crew Named after Them,” or Preparing Material to Deposit in the Digital Age, Troy Reeves
- Digital Audio Recording: The Basics, Doug Boyd
- Understanding Microphones, Charles Hardy III and Doug Boyd
- Microphones and Room Effects: Audio Exemplars and Some Recommendations for Enhancing the Quality of Oral History Recordings, Brad Rakerd
- Speech in Quiet and Speech in Noise: Audio Exemplars and Some Recommendations for Enhancing the Quality of Oral History Recordings, Brad Rakerd
- Video Equipment: Guide to Selecting and Use, Scott Pennington and Dean Rehberger
- Quick Tips for Better Interview Video, Scott Pennington and Dean Rehberger
- Microphone Strategies for Recording Video for Oral History Interviews, Doug Boyd
- The Art of Lighting for Recording Video Oral History Interviews, Doug Boyd
- What Do You Think You Own, or Legal/Ethical Concerns, Troy Reeves
- Achieving Good Audio Recording Levels, Doug Boyd
- Human Subjects and IRB Review, Linda Shopes
- Case Study: Oral History in the Video Age, Peter B. Kaufman
- Case Study: Oral History, Folklore, and Vernacular Architecture, Janet C. Gilmore and Troy Reeves
- Case Study: Designing a National Online Oral History Collecting Initiative: The Occupational Folklore Project at the American Folklife Center, Nancy Groce and Bert Lyons
- Case Study: America Works-Emerging Project Models, Nancy Groce & Bert Lyons
- Case Study: The Veterans History Project, Kurt Dewhurst
- Case Study: A Closer Look at Community Partnerships, Brooke Bryan
- Case Study: Using video in oral history—learning from one woman’s experiences, Joanna Hay
- Case Study: The Kentucky Oral History Commission: The Digital Shift, Sarah Milligan
- Case Study: Interviewer-Generated Metadata, Doug Boyd
- Case Study: The Civil Rights Oral History Survey Project, Timothy Lloyd
- Case Study: Columbia University Oral History Master’s Program and Digital Projects, Marie Scatena
Curating
- Oral History Curation in the Digital Age: A Framework for Choices and Planning, Michael Frisch, Douglas Lambert, Mark Tebeau, and Erin Bell
- The Preservation of Analog Oral History Collections through Digitization, Sarah Cunningham
- Metadata: Best Practices for Oral History Access and Preservation, Elinor A. Mazé
- “Oral History Core”: An Idea for a Metadata Scheme, Nancy Mackay
- Transcribing Oral History in the Digital Age, Linda Shopes
- The Preservation of Analog Video through Digitization, Scott Pennington
- Collection Management Systems: Tools for Managing Oral History Collections, Sara Price
- Digital Video Preservation and Oral History, Kara Van Malssen
- Can Automatic Speech Recognition Replace Manual Transcription?, Douglas W. Oard
- Major Legal Challenges Facing Oral History In The Digital Age, John Neuenschwander
- A Shifting Paradigm: Intellectual Property Issues for Oral History in the Digital Age, Sheldon Halpern
- Who Owns Oral History? A Creative Commons Solution, Jack Dougherty and Candace Simpson
- The Digital Mortgage: Digital Preservation of Oral History, Doug Boyd
- File Naming in the Digital Age, Dean Rehberger and Brendan Coates
- Meaningful access to audio and video passages: A two-tiered approach for annotation, navigation, and cross-referencing within and across oral history interviews, Douglas Lambert
- Curating for a User Centered Approach, Michael Frisch and Douglas Lambert, (Forthcoming, Oral History Review Volume 40 Issue 1 Summer:Fall 2013, Oxford University Press)
- Case Study: Is Perfect the Enemy of Good Enough? Digital Video Preservation in the Age of Declining Budgets, Doug Boyd
- Case Study: Protecting IP Rights to Life Histories, Peggy Bulger
- Case Study: Born Digital Accession Workflow: The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Doug Boyd and Sara Abdmishani Price
- Case Study: Curating Tribal Collections, Elizabeth Lowman and Robin Kilgo
- Case Study: Transcripts, Time-Coding, and You, Michael Sesling
- Case Study: Baylor Institute for Oral History, Elinor Mazé
- Case Study: Noise Reduction and Restoration for Oral History: The Stars of Ballymenone, Doug Boyd
Disseminating
- Search, Explore, Connect: Disseminating Oral History in the Digital Age, Doug Boyd
- Steering Clear of the Rocks: Ethics and Oral History, Mary Larson (Forthcoming, Oral History Review Volume 40 Issue 1 Summer:Fall 2013, Oxford University Press)
- Enhancing Discovery: Connecting Users to Your Oral History Collections Online, Doug Boyd
- Oral History and Social Networks: From Promotion to Relationship Building, Juliana Nykolaiszyn
- Why Here/Why Now: Using Websites to Power Community Projects, Brooke Bryan
- “What Endures:” Producing and Publishing an Oral History Podcast, Jennifer Abraham Cramer and Erin M. Hess
- Shifting Questions: Re-examining the Need to Listen, Steve Cohen
- Mapping Approaches To Oral History Content Management In The Digital Age, Michael Frisch, with Douglas Lambert
- Meaningful access to audio and video passages: A two-tiered approach for annotation, navigation, and cross-referencing within and across oral history interviews, Doug Lambert and Michael Frisch
- On Making Oral Histories More Accessible to Persons with Hearing Loss, Brad Rakerd (Forthcoming, Oral History Review Volume 40 Issue 1 Summer:Fall 2013, Oxford University Press)
- Incorporating Oral History into K-12 Curricula, Mary Larson
- OHMS: Enhancing Access to Oral History for Free, Doug Boyd
- The Audio-Video Barn Website: Using Digital Technology to Share Oral Histories with Communities, Robert Warren (Forthcoming, Oral History Review Volume 40 Issue 1 Summer:Fall 2013, Oxford University Press)
- Authentic Doing: Student-Produced Web-Based Digital Video Oral Histories, Howard Levin (Essay Reprinted from the Oral History Review Volume 38 Issue 1 Winter-Spring 2011, Oxford University Press)
- Case Study: StoryMapper: A Case Study in Map-based Oral History, Paul McCoy
- Case Study: “Minding Our Manners”: The Haiti Memory Project and the Novice Oral Historian, Claire Payton
- Case Study: Hydraulic Fracturing: An Oral History, Shanna Farrell, Anna Levy, Kristen La Follette, and Sophie Cooper
- Case Study: Involving Narrators in Exhibits, Interpretation and Curation: Portraits of Brooklyn Vietnam Veterans, Sady Sullivan
- Case Study: Oral History in the Classroom, Glenn Whitman
- Case Study: “Visualizing Oral History,” Mark Tebeau
- Case Study: Mining Oral History for Enhanced Access, Jody Perkins and Becky Yoose
- Case Study: Why Oral History Matters: The Experience of the Arab American National Museum, Anan Ameri
- Case Study: Reservoir of Memories: A Student Oral History Project in Providence, Anna Wada and Nate Weisenberg