• Digital Public History

    Oral History Reading Response

    Reading “OHMS: Enhancing Access to Oral History for Free” by Doug Boyd provided a glimpse at what the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries went through to create a software, Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS), useful to their field and open to the public. They dealt with the challenges of transcription, indexing, time code markers, and other aspects of digitizing oral interviews. Boyd discusses these challenges and how the OHMS solved these issues. By making it an open source project, it makes it easier for other institutions and/or individuals to use this software. There is still improvements to be made to this software…