So I received a Zoom H2n in the mail this week and am excited to be working on reviewing it in a future post as well as doing a series of video tutorials on on what will probably be a very popular recorder. However, this post is about something else in the box. I was…
Have you ever had a digital file corrupt? Probably. I have certainly encountered data file corruption and it is, personally, very frustrating, and, from an archival perspective, it can be devastating. Most of the time we do not know whether our data files are intact or not until we try to open the file and…
So I am going to talk about a powerful example of using noise reduction tools for oral history, merging technology and tradition. First, some background. Ballymenone is a district located in the north of Ireland in County Fermanagh. In 1972 it was populated by 42 households totaling 129 people. The majority were Catholic farmers living…
Three years ago, I worked with Eric Weig, who managed the Kentucky Digital Library (KDL), to create a better way to present oral history online. The Nunn Center was focusing energy on transcription and the KDL was putting our interviews online with the transcripts. After several conversations and napkin drawings, we contracted a programmer to…
We are nearing the final stages of the Oral History in the Digital Age project, an IMLS funded project to pull together experts from all over the nation to make recommendations about best practices for collecting, curating, and disseminating oral histories in today’s digital context. I have been very fortunate to manage the project. The…
Digital Omnium is a blog featuring regular posts on topics relating to digital technologies pertaining to recording, archiving, digital preservation and online dissemination of oral histories. My name is Doug Boyd and I have worked closely with oral history, folklore, archives and digital technologies for over 15 years. During this time, I have led numerous…
