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Oral History, audio-visual materials and Digital
Humanities: a new ‘grand challenge’?
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Dr Julianne Nyhan
Lecturer (assistant Professor) in Digital Information Studies, UCL: DIS
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/juliannenyhan @juliannenyhan
Dr Andrew Flinn
Reader (associate Professor) in Archival Studies, UCL:DIS
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/andrewflinn @Andyucl
Terras, Nyhan and Vanhoutte, 2014.
Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader.
Ashgate
Audio-visual materials in DH & Humanities …
Co-occurrence of DH2014 author-submitted keywords by Scott Weingart
Source: http://www.scottbot.net/HIAL/?p=39588
DH and tradition
“… about 30 of the 190 projects at Oxford are concerned with the period after 1850.
While these include some projects on major modern themes such as the First World
War archive and the Around 1968 project, the connection of other projects with the
modern world is more tangential, such as Translations of Classical Scholarship, which
just happens to extend to 1907. At Oxford, the centre of gravity of the digital
humanities is also firmly rooted in earlier periods, with about half of the projects being
concerned with the period before 1600. And again we are presented with an
extremely conservative view of the humanities, in which the classical world has an
elevated position, and names like Chaucer, Leonardo, Holinshed, John Foxe and
Jonathan Swift dominate. The smaller range of projects produced by the Humanities
Research Institute at Sheffield reflect a similar bias, with just over half dealing with the
period before 1700 … .”
Source: Andrew Prescott ‘Making the Digital Human: Anxieties, Possibilities,
Challenges’
http://digitalriffs.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/making-digital-human-anxieties.html
Source: http://www.civicmediacenter.org/event/2012/07/28/oral-history-
mixtape
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From analogue to digital: the hegemony of
the word Oral history audio and video can now be placed in an
environment in which rich annotation, cross-referencing
codes, and other descriptive or analytic ‘meta-data’ can be
linked to specific passages of audio-visual content … This
will, of course, allow the audio-visual files themselves to be
‘searched, browsed, accessed, studied, and selected for use
at a high level of specificity’ (p.103) … On this software
frontier, audio and video documentation becomes as richly
and easily accessible as a well-organized text-based-
reference book, and far more easily accessible (Source
Frisch, M. ‘Oral History and the Digital Revolution: toward a
post-documentary sensibility’ in The Oral History Reader.
Perks, R and Thomson A. (Eds.) Routledge 1998 p.104).
Source: http://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/
Source: http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/x/0/49/%20;%20charset=UTF-8
Source: http://www.oralhistoryonline.org/
Source: http://hiddenhistories.omeka.net/
Source: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/6/3/index.html
See: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2070509
Source:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6639321
Facial recognition?
Source: http://invisibleaustralians.org/faces/
Source: http://www.cometogetherkids.com/2012/02/swirling-colors-milk-science-
experiment.html