
By Douglas A. Boyd
Exploring the advancements that experience happened within the perform of oral background for the reason that electronic audio and video grew to become doable, this booklet explores a variety of groundbreaking initiatives within the heritage of electronic oral historical past, distilling the insights of pioneers within the box and utilizing them to the consistently altering digital panorama of today.
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Beyond their shared emphasis on collaboration and a democratic impulse, another reason for the importance of public scholarship may be the fact Introduction / 13 that both groups have a significant core of practitioners operating in nonacademic settings. Oral historians and digital humanists find themselves employed in an array of positions with governmental agencies, historical societies, arts groups, museums, and other nonprofits, and many of those types of organizations have a stated focus on providing information to the general public.
2 Nevertheless, as we were engaged in these early efforts to deliver the voices of women, it was becoming clear that we were indeed creating valuable archives, although these often were little more than tapes stored in file drawers in our homes or in our community women’s centers. 4 Though limited, this creative effort at least enlivened the printed version of the spoken word. 5 Nevertheless, it was both cumbersome and time consuming to locate and listen to portions of an analog recording, especially in contrast to flipping through the pages of a transcript.
Our first actual developer was Dan Grahek, and his work was premiered at the 1991 meeting of the Oral History Association 20 / William Schneider (OHA) in Salt Lake City. A dinosaur by today’s standards, that standalone station may have been the first time a digital presentation was given at OHA. Now, with electronic access as the norm for oral history, we look back and ask how this new mode of access has changed the methodology. Of course, this begs two more fundamental questions: what are oral histories?