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Experiencing War: A Project to Preserve and Make Accessible Oral Histories of World War I I Nick Pavlik and Michelle Sweetser Center for Archival Collections Interviewee Wilber Saneholtz with fellow Bowling Green State University Libraries


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Experiencing War: A Project to Preserve and Make Accessible Oral Histories of World War I I

Nick Pavlik and Michelle Sweetser Center for Archival Collections Bowling Green State University Libraries Society of Ohio Archivists Conference June 17, 2020

Interviewee Wilber Saneholtz with fellow servicemen during flight training

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P resentation Overview

  • Who we are
  • The collection
  • Ohio History Fund
  • Grant application process
  • Project workflow
  • Challenges and lessons learned
  • Publicity
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COLLECTIONS

University Archives, regional history collections, National Student Affairs Archives, special collections

STRENGTHS

Civil War history, women, labor, agriculture, religion (Christian churches)

TECHNOLOGY

Omeka (finding aids, digital collections/ exhibits), Avalon (streaming media), Z- DAM (DAM system), Preservica (digital preservation), ArchivesSpace (finding aids, in

  • progress)

About Us

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About the Collection

M S - 0871: HI STORY 303 WOR L D WAR II INTE RV IE WS

  • 108 audio/video recordings
  • Created 2000
  • 2004 for a History
  • f World War II course taught by
  • Drs. Kathren Brown and Walter

Grunden

  • "To give voice to individuals who

experienced war and to produce a useable historical record"

  • Prior access to collection was

difficult to facilitate due to formats

Interviewee Cathryn Hitchcox, nurse at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas

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Income tax c he c k- offs , m a s tod on lic e ns e p la te s , d e s ig na te d d ona tions Bric ks & Morta r, O rg a niza tiona l De ve lop m e nt, Prog ra m s & C olle c tions O hio- b a s e d nonp rofit

  • rg a niza tions a nd p ub lic e ntitie s ;

re q uire s m a tc hing

Ohio History Fund

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One year to complete upon award C AC s ta ff ( Mic he lle a nd Nic k) ; De p t.

  • f His tory g ra d ua te s tud e nt;

ve nd ors for outs ourc e d p ortions Re c e ive d $ 6 ,70 0 from a n initia l re q ue s t for $ 10 ,70 0 ; De p t. of His tory fund ing for g ra d ua te s tud e nt p rovid e d m a jority of our m a tc h

Grant Application P rocess

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P roject W orkflow

COMP ONE NTS

  • Fall 2018

⚬ Dig itiza tion ( O uts ourc e d )

  • Sp ring 20 1

9 ⚬ Tra ns c rip tions a nd c los e d c a p tions ( O uts ourc e d ) ⚬ Me ta d a ta a nd q ua lity c ontrol ⚬ O nline d e live ry

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V ENDOR S ELEC TION

Obtained q uote s from four m e d ia d ig itiza tion ve nd ors ; s e le c te d Me m non b a s e d on e s tim a te d c os t a nd e s ta b lis he d work with Ind ia na Unive rs ity's Me d ia Dig itiza tion a nd Pre s e rva tion Initia tive

Digitization

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PRESERVATION M A S T ER S

  • Audio: 24/96

BWF

  • Video:
  • Format: NTSC
  • Codec: FFv1

uncompressed

  • Resolution:

720x486px, 4 :2 :2

PRODUCTION MASTERS

  • Audio: 24/96

BWF

  • Video:
  • Format: NTSC
  • Codec: MPEG
  • 2
  • Resolution:

720x512px, 4:2: 2

ACCESS COPIES

  • Audio: 192 kbps

MPEG- 4

  • Video:
  • Format: MPEG
  • 4
  • Codec: H.264
  • Resolution:

720x486px, 4:2:0

Digitization

DELIV ERABLES (3 M ONTHS )

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V ENDOR S E LEC TI ON

  • Selected Rev based on

rates ($1 per minute) and recommendations

  • n archival listservs
  • All other options were

cost - prohibitive

Transcriptions and Closed Captions

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Transcriptions and Closed Captions

DELIV ER ABLES (5 MONTHS )

VIDEO AUDIO

Microsoft Word document SRT plain text file

SRT example

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Meta da ta a nd Qua lity C ontrol ( 5 m onths )

R EFOR MAT TI NG

Graduate student re fo rm a tte d tra ns c rip tio ns to a d he re to the Ba ylo r Ins titute o f O ra l His to ry s tyle g uid e ; s a ve d a s s e a rc ha b le PDFs

M E TADATA

G ra d ua te s tud e nt e nte re d Dub lin C o re m e ta d a ta fo r e a c h o ra l his to ry in a n Exc e l XS L file

AC CES S IBIL ITY R E V IE W

G ra d ua te s tud e nt re vie we d a ll re c o rd ing s a g a ins t tra ns c rip tio ns a nd c lo s e d c a p tio ns ; c o rre c te d e rro rs

T R AINING

Tra ine d De p a rtm e nt o f His to ry g ra d ua te s tud e nt in Dub lin C o re m e ta d a ta a nd a c c e s s ib ilty d o c um e nt s ta nd a rd s

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Online Delivery

BR ING ING IT ALL TOGE THE R ( 2 M ONTHS )

Host platform for d ig ita l e xhib it; re c ord ing s e m b e d d e d into ite m re c ord s from Ava lon Sc a nne d s up p le m e nta l m a te ria ls a nd vid e o s tills us e d for e xhib it ic ons , up loa d e d to O m e ka Dub lin C ore XSL c onve rte d to C SV , up loa d e d to O m e ka to b a tc h c re a te ite m re c ord s Hos t p la tform for a c c e s s c op ie s of re c ord ing s ( vid e os b und le d with SRT file s )

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Public ity Elem ents

  • PRESS RELEASE
  • OVERSIZED POSTCARD
  • SOCIAL MEDIA
  • SLIDE ON CAMPUS

SCREENS

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LEGAL P A P ER W O R K

To the degree that you can, have all parties that will review your project do so before grant submission

BLANK SPACE

Ask vendor to remove irrelevant and blank content from access files; it is time - consuming to do it yourself

ANTICIPATE DONATIONS

As people learn about your project, be prepared to answer questions about recording new stories, donations of objects

Lessons Learned

K N O W T H E C O N T EN T

O ra l his torie s m a y c onta in offe ns ive

  • r ha te ful

la ng ua g e m e riting a n a c knowle d g e m e nt

  • r a d vis ory

s ta te m e nt

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D IG ITAL E XHIBIT D E M O

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NICK PAVLIK

npavlik@bgsu.edu (419)372

  • 7914

MICHELLE SWEETSER

msweets@bgsu.edu (419)372

  • 8085

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