External Site: Oral History in the Digital Age[info]
Essays, advice, tips and guidelines to best practice aimed at anyone wanting to undertake an oral history project using the latest digital technologies, both audio and video. The site is an offshoot of the US journal The Oral History Review and covers cataloguing and metadata, digital preservation, equipment, transcription and all other aspects relating to the practical and theoretical side of oral history. A series of video interviews entitled ‘Thinking Big’ features experts talking about preservation, automatic speech recognition, the use of oral history in higher education, field recording, outreach etc.