Oral History

Call it The GCDLADB if you like.

15 min read Mar 24, 2022
Digital.Grinnell features a fair number of transcribed digital oral histories. Most are interviews conducted with Grinnelleans as they return to campus annually for alumni Reunion or Grinnell’s Multicultural Reunion. What follows is largely sharable “public” content lifted from a “private” GitHub repository at https://github.com/McFateM/OHScribe, the README.md and WORKFLOW.md files in particular. OHScribe! https://ohscribe.us.reclaim.cloud/ Note: This link is the new production home for OHScribe! as of March 2022. It is now hosted on Reclaim Cloud. The old address, https://ohscribe.grinnell.edu, is no longer in service. ...

Oral History Transcription Workflow

14 min read Jun 1, 2020 Superseded by posts/121-new-oral-history-transcription-workflow.md
Digital.Grinnell features a fair number of transcribed digital oral histories. Most are interviews conducted with Grinnelleans as they return to campus annualy for alumni Reunion or Grinnell’s Multicultural Reunion. What follows is largely sharable “public” content lifted from a “private” GitHub repository at https://github.com/McFateM/OHScribe, the README.md and WORKFLOW.md files in particular. OHScribe! https://ohscribe.grinnell.edu Note: This link was disabled in the spring of 2020, but is working again as of July 1, 2020, on host DGDocker3. This is a Python 3 and Flask web application designed to transform oral history transcripts, presumably created using InqScribe, into XML suitable for ingest into the Islandora Oral Histories Solution Pack to populate a TRANSCRIPT datastream and its derivatives. ...