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Clockwise from upper left: Festival goers dance at Summerfest, 1984, Milwaukee Public Library Historic Photos; PrideFest
Milwaukee parade heads to Veterans Memorial Park, 1995, Archives Dept., University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries; Papa
Lou leads woodwind band at Festa Italiana, 1983, Milwaukee Public Library Historic Photos; & Indian Summer Festival at Henry
Maier Festival Park, late 1980s (?) Archives Dept., University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries
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Oral History in the Digital Age (2016 MAC, #s201)
Ellen Brooks, Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Paul Hedges, Wisconsin Historical Society
Charles Hosale, UW-Milwaukee
Troy Reeves, UW-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives• Madison, WI 53706Phone: (608) 262-5629 • http://library.wisc.edu/archives/
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Collecting Oral History in the Digital Age
• What has changed?
• What remains the same?
• What should I know?
• How have we changed?
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives• Madison, WI 53706Phone: (608) 262-5629 • http://library.wisc.edu/archives/
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Collecting Oral History in the Digital Age: Oral
History, as defined by the Oral History Association
“The Oral History Association promotes oral history as a method of gathering and preserving historical information through recorded interviews with participants in past events and ways of life.”
Oral History Association’s website: oralhistory.org
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives• Madison, WI 53706Phone: (608) 262-5629 • http://library.wisc.edu/archives/
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Collecting Oral History in the Digital Age: Oral History, as
defined by Don Ritchie
“An oral history interview generally consists of a well-prepared interviewer questioning an interviewee and recording their exchange on audio or videotape.”
Ritchie, Donald, Doing Oral History, Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2003, quote on p. 19
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives• Madison, WI 53706Phone: (608) 262-5629 • http://library.wisc.edu/archives/
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More on Collecting Oral History
What Isn’t Oral History.
OR
The “Oral History” of [Fill in the Blank].
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives• Madison, WI 53706Phone: (608) 262-5629 • http://library.wisc.edu/archives/
Be Bop Bamboozled. From Mental Floss’ website: http://mentalfloss.com/article/74902/oral-history-strangest-super-bowl-halftime-show-ever
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Ellen Brooks, Oral Historian
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GETTING READY TO PUT YOUR INTERVIEWS ONLINE (THE LESS TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS)
•Talk to your IT Team Approach them as partners
Meet them more than half way
Be smart about your deadlines
and stay on their radar
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GETTING READY TO PUT YOUR INTERVIEWS ONLINE (THE LESS TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS)
•Think about your Legal
and Ethical obligations Appropriate legal rights
Policy for online access
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GETTING READY TO PUT YOUR INTERVIEWS ONLINE (THE LESS TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS)
Suggested questions to ask about the interview content:
• Does this interview contain personal information such as a physical address, healthcare information, a phone number, a social security number, or anything else that potentially poses a future privacy risk?
• Does this interview contain confidential or sensitive information (about anyone) that (your organization) should consider prior to making this interview available online? Examples include discussions of personal tragedies, medical conditions, sexual abuse, or violence.
• Does this interview contain criminal allegations against another party?
• Does this interview contain potentially slanderous or libelous language pertaining to another living person?
• Does this interview reveal institutional, trade, or corporate secrets?• Does this interview use culturally insensitive language?
Boyd, D.(2015). Informed Accessioning: Questions to Ask After the Interview, In D. Boyd, S. Cohen, B. Rakerd, & D. Rehberger (Eds.), Oral history in the digital age. Institute of Library and Museum Services. Retrieved from http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2015/03/informed-accessioning-questions-to-ask-after-the-interview/
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GETTING READY TO PUT YOUR INTERVIEWS ONLINE (THE LESS TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS)
•Think about your Legal
and Ethical obligations Appropriate legal rights
Policy for online access
Communicate with your
narrators
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GETTING READY TO PUT YOUR INTERVIEWS ONLINE (THE LESS TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS)
• Plan Your
Look/Outreach Consult with the experts
Think long term and sustainable
How will you spread the word?
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GETTING READY TO PUT YOUR INTERVIEWS ONLINE (THE LESS TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS)
•Talk to your IT Team
•Think about your Legal
and Ethical Obligations
•Plan your look
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Using Pop Up Archive at the
Wisconsin Historical Society
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PBCore (like) Metadata
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Timecoded Transcriptions
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Search and Facet Navigation
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2014 Pilot Project
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WHS use of Pop Up Archive
• Public access to collections
– Thematic Panels Collection
– Selected Oral Histories
• Creation of draft transcriptions (Private)
– Freedom Summer Collection
– Vel Phillips Collection
– Milwaukee and Madison Oral History Projects
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What we learned
• Accuracy is dependent on quality of audio
AND the interview
• Transcription accuracy between 5%-75%
• Cost-effective solution for high quality
audio
• Assume additional staff cost for
correction (length of original audio X 2)
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Conclusions?
• Humans still better than the Machine
• Valuable tool for its market
• It will get better over time
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Thank You!
Collecting, Preserving and Sharing Stories Since 1846
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CHARLES HOSALEAV PROJECT ARCHIVIST
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE
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About 30 collections with around 1000 recordings
Before 2015 we had 33 oral histories online
Made accessible in CONTENTdm with record level metadata
Links from finding aids to online records are primary access points
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS AT UWM
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ORAL HISTORY METADATA SYNCHRONIZER
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Needs an online platform that hosts the OHMS Viewer. We use CONTENTdm
Record description is done online in the OHMS Interview Manager and is expressed as XML
Media hosted in Kaltura
HOW OHMS FUNCTIONS
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OHMS INTERVIEW MANAGER
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19 recordings
All had transcripts and were already digitized
Had previously been online with only item level metadata
Indexed at around what the Nunn Center calls Level 2
Title, Segment Synopsis, Keywords, and Subjects
Synced transcripts
MARCH ON MILWAUKEE OHMS PILOT PROJECT
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Prepare Records
Combine records that span multiple items, or split up unconnected records that were combined onto one item
Upload records to the media host
Generate Item Level Metadata and Controlled Vocabulary
Index
Use transcript to create index points
Input index points and metadata to the recording in OHMS
Sync
Format transcript for presentation in OHMS
Upload and sync in OHMS
Put OHMS XML into CONTENTdm
Have OHMS metadata hidden in record’s background to increase keyword search functionality
Links from finding aid, which is still the primary point of access from the archives
OHMS WORKFLOW
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PILOT PROJECT OUTCOMES
Established a workflow where Archives describes the records and manages the project, while Digital Collections maintains the OHMS Viewer, media hosting, and creation of CONTENTdm records
Takes about 3x length of interview to index, half the length to sync the transcript
Lots of duplicate information between keywords, subjects, title, transcript, and segment synopsis
Harder to index interviews that aren’t “traditional” well-conducted oral histories
The description doesn’t really require an LIS professional, can be accomplished by talented and well-trained interns or volunteers
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REGULARIZING OHMS
Decided to only index or sync unless project meets special criteria
Hired a student to do description
Professional staff member approves description and facilitates the project. Also responsible for training and communicating
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FURTHER OHMS CONSIDERATIONS
Should every collection be described in OHMS?
At what level do collections get described?
Is a community of OHMS practice going to arise, and some best practices emerge?
Is the work sustainable?
Impact of disabled peoples’ accessibility and ADA regulations on our online presence and description decisions?
Are other solutions going to be more competitive?
Charles HosaleAV Project Archivist
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
[email protected] | @cmhosale
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Oral History in the Digital Age: One Last Question
Images: (above) from OHDA website; (below) from the UW-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives• Madison, WI 53706Phone: (608) 262-5629 • library.wisc.edu/archives
Audio or Video?
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Clockwise from upper left: Festival goers dance at Summerfest, 1984, Milwaukee Public Library Historic Photos; PrideFest
Milwaukee parade heads to Veterans Memorial Park, 1995, Archives Dept., University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries; Papa
Lou leads woodwind band at Festa Italiana, 1983, Milwaukee Public Library Historic Photos; & Indian Summer Festival at Henry
Maier Festival Park, late 1980s (?) Archives Dept., University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Libraries