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Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » Tag: oral history - Recent Posts http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/tags/oral-history Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » Tag: oral history - Recent Posts en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 04:08:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/search.php donna.lanclos@gmail.com on "Recommendations on ethnographic software?" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/recommendations-on-ethnographic-software#post-1572 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:25:24 +0000 donna.lanclos@gmail.com 1572@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ check out <a href="http://www.dedoose.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dedoose.com/</a> cheaper than NVivo, much of the same functionality. Arno Bosse on "Recommendations on ethnographic software?" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/recommendations-on-ethnographic-software#post-1565 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:17:16 +0000 Arno Bosse 1565@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ This just in.. <a href="http://www.borisfx.com/Soundbite/" rel="nofollow">http://www.borisfx.com/Soundbite/</a> Watch the first demo video. Since it works with all QuickTime compatible formats you could use this to analyze & index WAV files imported into FCP, have it search for and tag the file with in/out markers around the search terms and then export the whole thing again as XML. Pretty neat if it works as advertised. I'm not aware of an open source package that can do this. Arno Bosse on "Recommendations on ethnographic software?" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/recommendations-on-ethnographic-software#post-1562 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:24:46 +0000 Arno Bosse 1562@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Replying to @<a href='http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/profile/janeh-s'>JaneH-S</a>'s <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/recommendations-on-ethnographic-software#post-1560">post</a>: You may want to look at <a href="http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/elan-description/">ELAN</a> too and <a href="http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/" rel="nofollow">http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/</a> for more suggestions. Dorothea Salo on "Recommendations on ethnographic software?" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/recommendations-on-ethnographic-software#post-1561 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:01:44 +0000 Dorothea Salo 1561@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <a href="http://www.transana.org/">Transana</a> may fill the bill. JaneH-S on "Recommendations on ethnographic software?" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/recommendations-on-ethnographic-software#post-1560 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:54:15 +0000 JaneH-S 1560@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ We are looking for tools to tag and analyze interview transcript texts. Should work in tandem with archival/database software, undetermined as yet. Center on Aging and Community, Indiana University. aearhart on "Has anybody written a history of the digital humanities?" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/has-anybody-written-a-history-of-the-digital-humanities#post-592 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:26:30 +0000 aearhart 592@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Bethany is correct. I'm working on a book length project on digital literary studies. It started out as a broader DH book, but that seemed far too general. I'm tracing the development through forms--edition, archive--and approaches--content selection and fragmented data analysis like visualization, data mining, mapping, etc. I do think it is important that we, as a field, begin to collect and analyze our early history. I've had great conversations with pioneers of the field and still have a number of folks on the list to contact (unsworth!). I'm hoping that this project will be complete within the next two years. Glad to hear that folks are interested in the questions that the project poses. You never know.... Bethany Nowviskie on "Has anybody written a history of the digital humanities?" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/has-anybody-written-a-history-of-the-digital-humanities#post-575 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:48:05 +0000 Bethany Nowviskie 575@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <a href="http://web.me.com/aearhart/Earhart/Earhart.html">Amy Earhart</a> (<a href="http://twitter.com/amyeetx">@amyeetx</a>) is working on something like this right now. Tentative title: Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of the Digital Humanities. She may be taking a literary/archival angle, though. At least, those are the kinds of projects and groups she's connected with me about. She's a DHanswers user! I'll draw her attention to this thread. Stéfan Sinclair on "Has anybody written a history of the digital humanities?" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/has-anybody-written-a-history-of-the-digital-humanities#post-564 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:42:39 +0000 Stéfan Sinclair 564@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Eric, I certainly share your interest in historical perspectives on humanities computing. Beyond fairly discipline-specific retrospectives oriented toward published research (the 1991 anniversary addition of CHUM contains several of these), I don't know of much along the lines of what you describe. I sometimes daydream of doing some video interviews with some of the pioneers still with us (Raben, Burrows, Hockey, etc.), but then the realities of my current commitments rudely shake me awake :). Still, I think this is fairly urgent, and it may not even be that time consuming to at least do the interviews, even if the synthetic work is delayed until later. But it's probably best for a historian or ethnographer to lead the work, rather than someone like me with a literary background :). Another person to talk to about this is <a href="http://www.edwardvanhoutte.org/">Edward Vanhoutte</a> who has compiled a lot of materials on humanities computing. I know <a href="http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/">Willard McCarty</a> has also digitized a ton of early stuff, and <a href="http://geoffreyrockwell.com/">Geoffrey Rockwell</a> has considered more closely some of the early Canadian work. I certainly hope that someone takes this up as a project! unsworth on "Has anybody written a history of the digital humanities?" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/has-anybody-written-a-history-of-the-digital-humanities#post-561 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:22:45 +0000 unsworth 561@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Replying to @Eric Johnson's <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/has-anybody-written-a-history-of-the-digital-humanities#post-558">post</a>: Some oral history work was done a few years back at Kings College, London, but I don't know where or if it was published. Harold Short, Willard McCarty, or Sheila Anderson might know. If you're looking at the Blackwell's Companion to DH, don't overlook Father Busa's foreword, which has some great historical information.... Eric Johnson on "Has anybody written a history of the digital humanities?" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/has-anybody-written-a-history-of-the-digital-humanities#post-558 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:15:26 +0000 Eric Johnson 558@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ I've often found myself wondering if anybody has written a book-length narrative history telling the story of humanities computing/digital humanities from the early days of humanities computing until now (or some approximation thereof), addressing major milestone DH projects, related efforts, and some of the big themes of the field as they've evolved--or haven't--over time? I suspect that some histories may have been done that address particular disciplines (e.g. digital history), but have they been tied together and examined as a whole? I see that the question has been addressed in conference presentations, such as those by <a href="http://infomotions.com/blog/tag/digital-humanities/">Joe Raben</a> or <a href="http://infomotions.com/blog/2010/05/cyberinfrastructure-days-at-the-university-of-notre-dame/">Stéfan Sinclair</a>, and appears in Chapter 1 of Schreibman et al.'s "<a href="http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/">A Companion to Digital Humanities</a>," but I wondered if anything longer has been published. I may well have just sailed right past it. Seems like it would make a great oral history project, too. Ethan Gruber on "Oral History Metadata Standards and Schemes" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/oral-history-metadata-standards-and-schemes#post-551 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:18:59 +0000 Ethan Gruber 551@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ The Faulkner audio collection consists of TEI files that are transcriptions of tapes of William Faulkner doing Q&A sessions back in the 1950s -> <a href="http://faulkner.lib.virginia.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://faulkner.lib.virginia.edu/</a> There are elements in TEI for recording timestamps of "events" in a dialog as well as speakers, and presumably questions. Check the following for more information: <a href="http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/collections/ohonline.html" rel="nofollow">http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/collections/ohonline.html</a> <a href="http://www.diglib.org/standards/level4oh.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.diglib.org/standards/level4oh.html</a> <a href="http://www.cdlib.org/groups/stwg/OH_BPG.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cdlib.org/groups/stwg/OH_BPG.html</a> Erin Bell on "Oral History Metadata Standards and Schemes" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/oral-history-metadata-standards-and-schemes#post-385 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:57:15 +0000 Erin Bell 385@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Replying to @Ethan Gruber's <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/oral-history-metadata-standards-and-schemes#post-357">post</a>: Ethan, can you tell me more about this? Ideally, I would like to use TEI (or something similar) not only to mark up a transcription and/or a simplified minute-by-minute interview log, I would also like to connect certain moments to points in the audio file. Like something marked <question> would move to that moment. Make sense? Some desktop software does this but as far as I know not according to any standard. If you have some documentation about oral history and TEI, it would be really helpful. Thanks! Ethan Gruber on "Oral History Metadata Standards and Schemes" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/oral-history-metadata-standards-and-schemes#post-357 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:52:57 +0000 Ethan Gruber 357@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Depending on what metadata you actually want to record (and if you want to provide access to transcriptions), TEI is capable of encapsulating oral histories. Bill Ferster on "Oral History Metadata Standards and Schemes" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/oral-history-metadata-standards-and-schemes#post-343 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:25:00 +0000 Bill Ferster 343@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Replying to @Erin Bell's <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/oral-history-metadata-standards-and-schemes#post-302">post</a>: The Library of Congress' METS standard is worth looking into: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/" rel="nofollow">http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/</a> Sheila Brennan on "Oral History Metadata Standards and Schemes" http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/oral-history-metadata-standards-and-schemes#post-335 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:18:28 +0000 Sheila Brennan 335@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ Erin, Have you looked at the Oral History Association's site? They have a number of resources: <a href="http://www.oralhistory.org/resources/" rel="nofollow">http://www.oralhistory.org/resources/</a> In Dublin Core, there is an oral history item type that offers specific metadata.