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Oral History Indexing

Douglas Lambert

Published 2023 in Oral History Review

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ABSTRACT Oral history indexing (OHI) is a set of practices for audio/video content management that emerged with computer-based media. Through thematically defined passages within recordings, OHI provides electronically linked, timecode-level access to online oral history interviews and collections. Several institutions have developed multimedia OHI interfaces that, like an indexed book, allow cross-referencing to specific points within media documents, describe content through natural language, and promote browsing and exploring modes rather than literal text searching. This article describes the OHI work of seven pioneering institutions through case studies, highlighting a range of methodological approaches and system attributes. It also examines the phenomena of OHI through the lens of oral history best practices, discusses how emerging technologies such as automatic speech recognition will likely change oral history transcription practices and OHI, and suggests that the concepts and skills involved in OHI are applicable well beyond oral history and its content.

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