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Oral history collections The nicely catalogued but rarely consulted shelves of audio and video cassettes in even the best media and oral history libraries are closer than most people realise to that shoebox of unviewed home video camcorder


  1. Oral history collections ™ The nicely catalogued but rarely consulted shelves of audio and video cassettes in even the best media and oral history libraries are closer than most people realise to that shoebox of unviewed home video camcorder cassettes in so many families - precious documentation that is inaccessible and generally unlistened to and unwatched. Michael Frisch

  2. Overview The advantages and issues in using websites and other online technologies for oral history ™ Creation ™ Curation & interpretation ™ Dissemination

  3. What do I use?

  4. Creation How can online technologies help me create oral history? ™ Advantages: ™ Remote interviews ™ Issues: ™ Sound quality ™ Cost ™ What to use?

  5. Apps for interviews

  6. Curation Advantages: ™ Multimedia experience that is: ™ Enhanced storytelling ™ Visually engaging & provides context ™ Focus on themes - excerpts ™ Layering of information for different audiences ™ Searchable ™ Indexing, transcript, summaries, tags

  7. Densho

  8. Visual History Archive

  9. Audio-Video Barn

  10. Australian Generations

  11. Exhibitions

  12. Embedded elements

  13. Collaboration

  14. Curation - Issues Cost: ™ domain ™ hosting ™ IT professionals Technical expertise ™ Need to understand file types ™ HTML, markdown ™ Maintenance and updating

  15. Wordpress WordPress.com ™ Free, but limited features ™ Advertising ™ Automatic updating WordPress.org ™ Costs – pay for domain name, hosting ™ More customisation, but more complex

  16. Dissemination ™ Global audience ™ Option of password-protected limited audience ™ Searchability ™ Collaboration

  17. Issues ™ Potential misuse ™ Legal issues ™ Permissions ™ Information overload

  18. Terms of use

  19. Accessibility ™ Government requirements ™ Best practice ™ Transcript, closed captions, audio descriptions

  20. Emerging technology ™ Transcription ™ Remote interviewing applications ™ Voice-activated search

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