Transcript A Multi-Tiered Approach to Describing Video Oral History

A MULTI-TIERED APPROACH TO DESCRIBING
VIDEO ORAL HISTORY
AT THE HISTORYMAKERS
Kathryn Stine
University of Illinois at Chicago
Oral History is a Unique Resource
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The interview:
Text transcripts
 Audio recordings
 Video recordings
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And what about:
research materials gathered in interview preparation
 photographs shared during the interview
 artifacts shared during the interview
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Description and Access
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Just what are we describing?
 Individual
interviews
 Project-based collections of interviews
 Ancillary research materials
 Photographs and other artifacts discussed in/shared
during the interview
Providing Access to Interview Content
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Some Approaches:
 Information
professionals:
 Established
and emerging descriptive tools
 Alphabet soup of standards (MARC, EAD, EAC-CPF)
 Historians
 Fine
and other researchers:
grained, subject-driven access
 Technology
professionals:
 Automation,
mining content
 Machine-learned access points
Choosing Levels of Description
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Collection/project –
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play well with others on the playground
Interview –
play well with others on the playground and
in your own backyard
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Sub-interview –
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play well in your own backyard and on your own
HistoryMakers Interview Descriptions
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Collection/project –
Library catalog record
 Archival Finding Aid
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Interview –
Library catalog records
 Archival finding aids
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Sub-interview –
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Coded interview segments
• Interviewee –
Authority record
Describing Interviews and Interviewees
Tracking Interview Information
Tracking Interviewee Information
Traditional Archival Description
Archival finding aid
Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Integrating Access and Showing Connections: EACCPF
Integrating Access and Showing Connections
EAC-CPF
EAD
EAC-CPF
EAD
EAC-CPF
MARC
EAD
DC
Inter-collection Connections
Inter- and Extra-Collection Connections
Inferential Indexing
Description out of the gates
Describing Video Assets
Describing Photographs
Descriptive Tools and Access Points
New Opportunities
 Providing
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dynamic visualizations of the collection using
Network diagrams, tree maps, or term clouds
 Further
investigation into developing an oral history
controlled vocabulary
 Using human-assigned index terms to inform machinelearned indexing of the interviews
 Inviting collaborative tagging of individual video
segments for:
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Content
Quality
Thank You!