Typical archival institutions are delivering oral history collections online using repository systems that fail to accommodate oral history’s complex, multidimensional nature. As a result, the majority of interviews being posted online provide challenging user experiences. I created OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) back in 2008 to connect a textual search of a transcript to the…
We just added a new feature to the OHMS viewer–the ability to create direct links to individual segments in an OHMS index. Now, you can dynamically send your users to specific moments in an oral history interview. Check it out!
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…
