Stories matter software centre for oral history and digital storytelling. Transcribing is related to oral historys origins and development as an archival practice with the goal creating documents for future use by scholars and other. The history department is a dynamic centre of research and teaching. Washingtoniana accepts oral histories that support our mission as a leading repository of local washington, dc history. A status report on oral history and digital media canadian. Michael frisch has recently written that the deep dark secret of oral history, is that. There he saw demonstrations of the software being developed with sshrc funding and met with steven high, elena razlogova and the public history research team. The southern oral history program in the center for the study of the american south conducts original research on the history and culture of the american south. Scott yakimow arrived at concordia university ann arbor after spending five years as a mechanical engineer working in hydraulics, another four as a missionary in both east africa and morocco. Stories matter is new oral history database building software designed by an interdisciplinary. The centre for oral history and digital storytelling is currently developing a new oral history database tool, entitled stories matter.
He received his doctoral and masters degrees from northern illinois university and his bachelors degree from san jose state university. Firstyear registration guide classes concordia college. Software helps share stories oral history researchers help develop. Digital toolbox centre for oral history and digital. New features of the latest version allow for faster upload speeds, better project management options and an improved user interface. Additional software is available for download through the. Associate professor department of history more info. Our stateoftheart labs for software analytics, big data, networks, 3d graphics, highperformance computing and artificial intelligence will give you experience with the tools youll use in the field. There are two areas along the software frontier, as frisch calls it, that concordia universitys centre for oral history and digital storytelling.
Welcome to cohds centre for oral history and digital. Stories matter free, open source software from concordias center for oral history and digital storytelling that facilitates the archiving of digital video and. An innovative project at concordia university seeks to revolutionize the way that oral history is collected, archived and accessed. The united states was at war against germany and japan. A great blue heron flies over the lush greens at heron lakes golf course in north portland. Oral history transcripts of legal professionals can also be used for historians focussing on aspects of social and political history which have a legal angle. Our theory is that oral history can be used to preserve communities and. Ehlers joined the faculty of concordia university wisconsin in august, 2010. The study of green grass is popular among agrostologists. Concordia universitys software licenses are centralized through site license agreements for the commonly used software. This diverse community of practice is exploring the intersections between oral history, new media and the arts. This software may be of interest to community archivists, especially those who work with oral history. A reflection in oral history and new media, 105 by steven high spring 2010 oral history 105 describes oral history practice in a longterm research and public history project at the centre for oral history and digital storytelling based at concordia university in montreal citation for article. Stories matter allows us to clip, index and export audio and video recordings and so it represents a real alternative to transcription.
Since 2008, concord oral history interviews have been managed by the concord free public library and conducted by outside contractors michael and carrie kline of talking across the lines and transcribed by adept word management. Feminism project also includes an oral history with ross. We received a grant from jjd to start the pilot project, preserving community, teaching high school students oral history. Selected oral history collections are now available online on dig dc. Its hard to imagine that just 67 years ago a bustling city with thousands of residents once occupied this quiet and serene location. Stories matter is new oral history database building software designed by an interdisciplinary team of oral historians and a software engineer affiliated with the centre for oral history and digital storytelling at concordia university in montreal, quebec, canada. Stories matter free open source software built by oral. Firstyear students who plan to declare the business major and any concentration who would typically placed into csc 104 in their first semester, but who have an act mathematics score of 24 or higher, will be placed into data 200 this fall.
Bishop tutu oral stories transcribed in the words of the storyteller preserve the unique legacy of family history. Concordia universityuniversity of ottawa universite dottawa. Stories matter free open source software built by oral historians. Transcribing oral history in the digital age by linda shopes. On the homefront, people everywhere were doing their part to help the war efforts.
Abstract in this oral history geraldine miller describes her life as an african american child born in the midwest in the 1920s. Furthermore, portelli maintains that oral historical methods produce. One of the best reflections on personalized scholarship can be found in stacey zembrzycki, sharing authority with baba, journal of canadian studies 43, 1 hiver 2009. This instructional program within the history department has collections containing oral histories relating to labor history, long beach history, and womens history. Toolbox centre for oral history and digital storytelling. Listen to firsthand accounts of the historic march on washington for jobs and freedom now share your story. Centre for oral history and digital storytelling at. Since 1974, we have collected more than 5,000 interviews with southerners from all walks of life, from politicians to activists, business owners to millworkers, educators to artists. Sharing life stories of displacement and survival bringing their intellectual commitments and offering insights from varied contexts, contributors to this volume take up the limits and possibilities of oral history, very broadly defined. As is so often the case, this theme is part of a wider rethinking of oral history practice in light of the digital transformation underway. In phase i completed in may 2009, oral historians could download the software and build. In the current stage of this research program, we have been working with an oral history research community to understand and support the curation and analysis of survivor testimonies.
Concordia university irvine prepares students for their vocationstheir various callings in life. Concordia was one of the first universities in canada to introduce an undergraduate program in software engineering. With active listening, and tea and cookies, i elicit the stories with as much detail as possible. With an enrollment of nearly 4,000 students, cui offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in a beautiful southern california location, with online and regional cohort options. With an emphasis on listening in postconflict zones, and researchcreation that responds to questions of memory, justice, and storytelling, the acts of listening lab allab complements the centre for oral history and digital storytellings existing strengths in sharing authority and difficult knowledge. Concordia university system the lutheran churchmissouri. This stateoftheart laboratory forms an integral part of cohdss research and creation activities and facilitates a core objective.
The department of history at concordia university offers the only program in public history in canada and research centres on public history, genocide and human rights studies. The results of this project can be found in the attached report and in. Stacey zembrzycki is a visiting oral historian at concordia universitys centre. Stories matter is new oral history database building software designed by an. This free, open source software is being built for oral historians by oral historians.
Gaffield spent the first half of his visit in the newly established digital oral history lab on the 10th floor of the library building. Steven high professor of history concordia university linkedin. Wisconsin occupational therapy association conference. The centre not only facilitates the collection of oral histories for. An open source trajanalytics software for modeling, transformation and visualization of urban trajectory data. Ehlers is a licensed athletic trainer and certified strength and conditioning specialist. In the past seven years, software development has also become a core part of. It offers oral historians an alternative to transcription. The centre for oral history and digital storytelling. Oral history involves interviewing a person or group to get an inside perspective into what it was like to live in a particular time or is like to live as the member of a particular group within a society. Links centre for oral history and digital storytelling. We have been using the stories matter extensively at concordia and are in. Division jjd to teach oral history to teens who are considered at risk. Cohosted by concordia universitys centre for oral history and digital storytelling, the workshop connects scholars and community historians of afr.
In other words, software systems specialists develop the tools that are used just about by everyone else in the computer science or engineering field. Interviewing a group of people can create a picture of that experience, and a large project of this kind such as uncs southern oral. These interviews are conducted with people who participated in or observed past events and whose memories and perceptions of these are to be preserved as an aural record. Administrative metadata contains management and preservation information useful in interpreting objects and establishing authenticity, for example, the date that a recording was digitized or migrated and the name of the agent software used in the migration. Stories matter is a software created by the centre for oral history and digital storytelling. As a child of incest between her mother and her mothers stepfather, miller focuses on her struggle to lift herself out of poverty, overcome the murder of her. In 1932 llewellyn transferred the company to his son waldo, and marblehead racing celebrity, c. Oral history collection concord free public library. Many of the oral histories are included in the reference collection please see reference staff for more information. He named the company after a famous howland family whaling vessel. While you may be asked to write on a series of potential topics, there are similarities in all of the possible subjects.
When you study software systems, youll learn how to design the software you see the application and the software you dont see the. Background transcribing, that is, representing in print that which has been spoken, has long been established as one of oral historys best practices. The software was created over an 18monthperiod at concordia. Later in 2009, for example, the annual meeting of the oral history association in the united. Stories matter software centre for oral history and. Oral history collections district of columbia public library. Concordia journal home archives november 26, 2009 issue. The inadequacy of written records is especially a problem when trying to reconstruct the experiences of particular groups of people, such as racialized communities or early women lawyers. Columbia university libraries oral history research office founded in 1948, this program has completed nearly eight thousand taped memoirs and nearly one million pages of. Steven high professor of history concordia university. Steven high assessed the current state of knowledge in oral and public history in relation to new media, identify emerging trends, and consider the public policy implications of our findings. Stories matter free, open source software from concordias center for oral history and digital storytelling that facilitates the archiving of digital video and audio materials, enabling users to annotate, analyze, evaluate and export materials, as well as tag, index, search, and browse within interviews, sessions, and clips or across. When a new centrallymanaged computer is purchased with concordia funds, it is equipped with the standard software image.
Workplace management of postconcussion injuries with cognitive ergonomics. On behalf of the centre for oral history and digital storytelling, i would like to announce an update to our popular oral history database called stories matter. Oral sources and digital humanities is a workshop will take place on september 2628, 2014 at the harriet tubman institute. In phase i completed in may 2009, oral historians could download the software and build oral history databases on their local computers. Build compilers, operating systems and communications software that developers use to create applications. Llewellyn howland established concordia company, inc. The virtual oralaural history archive is an archive of the sound recordings of our major oral history collections not their transcripts. Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. In phase ii completed in january 2010, the database allowed us to merge our local databases to an online server and therefore access them remotely. Oral history service memory is the sacred duty of all people of goodwill. Your gift to for the sake of the church could make it possible for the son or daughter of an lcms family to attend a concordia university give now. Giving to for the sake of the church helps build a perpetual fund to educate our lcms students for generations to come.
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