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Creating Digital Exhibits Using Oral History

Wed, October 4, 8:30am to 12:00pm, Hilton Minneapolis, Conrad A

Session Submission Type: Workshop

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Wednesday workshops require pre-registration and include a fee.

With free and low-cost tools, many of them open source, it has become easy to share oral history interviews in multisensory environments as a way of both interpreting the interviews and engaging public audiences. In this workshop, participants will develop skills to integrate oral histories into online exhibits by embedding audio clips and Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) indexes into open source platforms including WordPress and Omeka. Using additional freely available online tools, participants will learn ways to contextualize audio excerpts with images, maps, and other resources. We encourage participants to bring a laptop computer to test out these simple, concrete ways to bring oral histories to life in online environments.

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