TECHNOLOGY STACKS FOR NAVIGATING NARRATIVE:A WORDPRESS >> POPUP ARCHIVE >> OHMS WORKFLOW FOR YOUR INTERVIEWS ONLINEBROOKE BRYANINSTRUCTOR OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONANTIOCH COLLEGE

JUANITA SHOCKEY HARRIS, QUILTMAKER

• Why Here/Why Now Project• Reporter, Yellow Springs News• MA, Oral History Methodology• Community Voices Coordinator, WYSO (GA) • Oral History in the Digital Age, Collecting and

Disseminating Groups (IMLS, MATRIX)• Instructor of Cooperative Education at Antioch College• Director, OHLA (Oral History in the Liberal Arts:

Experiential Pedagogy for High-Impact Undergraduate Learning) GLCA collaborative

Not an archivist; ontological/phenomenological, deeply held belief in the power of narrative to be impactful

LOCATING MY PRACTICE

WORKSHOP OUTCOMES

• Understand what tools are available for processing, indexing, and sharing oral histories

• Choose a tool that best meets your needs, or to envision a “technology stack” that pairs multiple tools

• To understand how the ‘digital era’ complicates informed consent

A FRIENDLY COFFEE SHOP QUERY • 89-year old Appalachian Quiltmaker • It’s her birthday and Christmas is coming• House full of quilts• Document the quilts she’s made• Create some sort of oral history for the family

https://vimeo.com/49081409

• 3 visits to Juanita’s home• 11 hours of audio total (b-roll)• 546 images• Images taken of the scene• Wanted to tell the story of the story

http://thisoldquilt.org/quilt-stories-juanita/

CONTEXT

Still, things that Juanita said lingered in my mind. I had condensed an hour and forty five minutes of her narrative into 6 minutes. Much was lost for her family, and nearly everything of interest to scholars was not present. I needed a new tool.

LOSS OF MEANING

• Basic machine-generated transcription• Upgrade to premium machine-generated

transcription• The transcription is synced to the audio

file, and can be embedded as a player• You can download the transcript as a

plain text file to use as you pleasehttps://www.popuparchive.com/

POPUP ARCHIVE

• Audio only• Exceedingly expensive for larger

collections (priced by the linear hour, an Enterprise account begins at $150/month)

• Accents or poor recording quality can render the speech-to-text transcription almost useless.

LIMITATIONS OF POPUP ARCHIVE

Pop Up Archive Item: "Juanita Shockey Harris_ interview.mp3" : https://www.popuparchive.com/collections/5402/items/42553Transcript for file: Juanita_Shockey_Harris_interview.mp3

my name is Brooke Bryan is December 7th 2000 2011 Shania mini home love Juanita here to talk about her life life and work as a quiltmaker 180 can you tell me your full name I am Juanita Harris through 18 ashaki Harris my maiden name maiden name was shocked if I live I live then I was born in Ravenswood West Virginia Outlet country in I have lived in West Virginia all my life until I was I was married except two years we've moved to a high on lived in Ohio that was my 7th and 8th grade the Country School in my birthday the nights the 20th 1922 fish when I was born what are some of your earliest earliest memories that you can think of you do you remember what your home was like as a child remember the landscape look like around your phone one of one of the homes you lived in will my father work for people Ariel worked on a farm and we had he had horses horses we don't know what he done always work with horses we had her own orange chicken cows and pigs eggs with Mod very few groceries and daddy would go to town town in your response to Little Things chocolate candy probably a dime's worth of candy but that wasn't nice I'd sac bam and

POPUP ARCHIVE WITH AN APPALACHIAN ACCENT: BASIC

Pop Up Archive Item: "Juanita Shockey Harris_ interview.mp3" : https://www.popuparchive.com/collections/5402/items/42553Transcript for file: Juanita_Shockey_Harris_interview.mp3

It's. My name is Bruce Bryan is over seven thousand a less. I really love. Juanita. Here to talk about her life's work as a quote maker. Juanita. Can you tell me or for me I am one need a hair serie one a just shocked to hear my maiden name was shocking. I lived and. I was born. Good West Virginia outlook Andras and. I lived in West Virginia all my life until I was married which except two years we moved to a high and lived in Ohio. And that was my seventh and eighth grade. I went to a country school. And my birthday. If I'm not right. Twenty S. and nineteen twenty two is when I was born. What are some of your earliest memories that you can think of you. Do you remember what your life as a child. You remember the landscape like one of one of the homes that. Well my father worked for people. Air or else. Worked on a farm. And we had. He had horses we done all right he doesn't always work with horses we had a row. Or own shift and. Calcine and pay. We've bought very few groceries. And that he would go to town. And he always projects a little fact that care they probably a dime's worth of candy but that was an eye sight sack. Man and. We did have been just different in different places we lived. I remember two places we live and. We live and. He. You dumb farmer. I was born in the afternoon. He'd just come from out in the field and was putting the horses away. My mother went out of the closure on to call him that she was in labor. But after the baby was a common man it was me and it was. I was born in the afternoon. You have just like I had one sister. And so. I don't know. I think my aunt. Her sister come. When I was being born with heart I was born in the country that he went and got the doctor or went to the doctor. I was able. I remember that house and I don't remember but my sister was a little bit jealous I'm a because mom put me in the baby crib. And the baby. They had that we had and. When I think she hung close up stairs in the wintertime to dry. And she heard me crying and she come down to see what the problem was. My sister had. Bit my finger across she didn't she were to would just stop and the baby got too much attention. And my mother's talked about that a long did you have any fun. Sure. We had to go shut the chickens up after we moved to another place where we raised. We had lots of chickens. And Soledad. And we had. It was our job to get down and shut the chickens up. Of aiding and. I was a little bit of fright because it was beginning to get dark. We watched stations after I got a little bigger. The two of the two us two girls wore stages well before that we had another baby brother. And our we had a baby brother and. When we lived in this house where the. The checksums wells we had two brothers. One baby was born. The last one. So I had a sister and two brothers. You know it's a nice size family. My mother my day and was your grandmother….

POPUP ARCHIVE WITH AN APPALACHIAN ACCENT: PREMIUM

• Provides a collaborative media management platform with strong upload functionality

• Provides hosting on Popup Archive servers (TOS, private collections) OR on Internet Archive servers (public)

• Embed player is a short-cut to synced, searchable navigable oral history content online.

POPUP ARCHIVE STILL RELEVANT:

• Work with video• Have a limited budget• Use Chrome extensively• Speak exclusively to scholarly

audiences or are interested in forwarding the notion that archiving richly navigable collections of interviews is scholarly publishing

POPUP ISN’T YOUR TOOL IF YOU:

• Require natural language mapping. In other words, if you work with oral history collections that deal with concepts beyond the words spoken, you’ll want to thematically categorize segments of your content to aid navigability and add keywords.

How will researchers find your content? How will you move through your own interviews?

POPUP ALSO ISN’T YOUR TOOL IF YOU:

The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer is a viewer developed by Doug Boyd of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky. • OHMS syncs a media file (audio or video) to a text file• OHMS does not require you to have a transcription. If you

have one, follow the transcription guidelines and upload the text file.

• In OHMS, you create an INDEX right in the tool• Your media can live anywhere— all you need is a url

OHMS

1. Interview metadata (the basics- requires title, interviewee/interviewer/url of media)

2. Upload a transcript (if you have one)3. Preview! 4. Sync!5. Index! https://ohms.uky.edu/browse-interviews.php

OHMS: BEHIND THE SCENES

1. You’ll need to install OHMS on a server. This requires moving files by FTP. It’s not difficult, but it is new for most people.

2. You’ll need a log-in name from the Nunn Center. It’s automated.

3. Your media needs to live on a streaming server (your wordpress website, youtube, your institutional archives, etc.)

4. You’ll need a website to embed the OHMS-ed interview into (for public viewing).

OHMS: WHAT TO NOTE

• You are not interested in learning new technology or have no one you can sit with to perform FTP transfers and to explore a new user interface.

• If you don’t have a web presence where you wish to display your collection (yoursite.com)

• If you lack an interest in ‘doing stuff’ with the meaning within your narratives

OHMS IS NOT FOR YOU IF:

• Stories excerpted from the narrative using video editing & YouTube/Vimeo

• Longer-form storytelling using text and media in a content management system (Wordpress)

• PopUp Archive (turn-key, but limited)• OHMS (dynamic, but more involved)

FOUR PUBLISHING METHODS:

• A technology stack is a thoughtful combination of tools and platforms

• A technology stack will address • Your workflow from the moment of file

creation on your recorder or camera• Where the media lives• How the media is accessed or viewed• How the media is preserved

TECHNOLOGY STACKS: THE HOLY GRAIL

FERPA compliant technology stack in development:Digital Recorder/Camera >> Google Drive/Hard Drive (QC/releases) >> PopUp (transcriptions & redundancy) >>>Internet Archive (streaming & preservation) >> Take the transcript & media file url to OHMS >> Sync & Index in OHMS >>Embed script on public display page (Wordpress website)

THE HOLY GRAIL: I’M STILL SEARCHING

• Holds promise for use and access— new user interfaces allow us to move through media in new ways— media is primary, retains gesture, intonation, context, etc.

• Easy to imagine new audiences• Complicates Informed Consent• Born-digital technologies impact decisions

made during project planning, collection, curation, and dissemination

STEP BACK: HOW DO THESE TOOLS CHANGE WHAT WE DO?

Brooke Bryan Antioch Collegebbryan@antiochcollege.org@whyherenow | ohla.info | 937.902.3806

LET’S DISCUSS!