Eric Weig
Head, Digital Programs and
Kentucky Virtual Library’s Kentuckiana Digital Library
University of Kentucky
Doug Boyd
Director, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
University of Kentucky
This session describes a follow-up to a 2006 session outlining the challenges and opportunities afforded by an in-house analog to digital audio pilot project centered on conversion of oral histories gathered by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky. As the project has progressed past the pilot phase, the Nunn Center, in partnership with the Kentuckiana Digital Library, has designed an interface to more intelligently present oral histories online by enabling users to search at the word level and then to link to the moment in the audio where those words occur. This capability is made possible through a process of digital preparation of the interview in an interface designed to mimic a video game. This software is called OHMS and it will be discussed and demonstrated along with the online delivery of the time coded transcripts and audio files.
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