{"id":40603,"date":"2015-03-25T13:55:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T13:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40603"},"modified":"2015-03-26T20:36:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:36:12","slug":"accessing-the-crossing-borders-bridging-generations-oral-history-collection-through-the-digital-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40603","title":{"rendered":"Accessing the Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Oral History Collection through the Digital Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/accessing-the-crossing-borders-bridging-generations-oral-history-collection-through-the-digital-humanities\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Accessing the Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Oral History Collection through the Digital Humanities<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Historical Society Blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Historical Society<\/a><br \/>\nBrooklyn, New York<br \/>\n2015-03-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jlipkins@brooklynhistory.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Julia Lipkins<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pleased to announce that the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbbg.brooklynhistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations (CBBG)<\/a> oral history collection is now open for research! From 2011 to 2014, a team of oral historians sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BHS <\/a>conducted interviews with mixed-heritage people and families in Brooklyn. CBBG narrators and interviewers explored the themes of cultural hybridity, race, ethnicity and identity formation in the United States. The complete collection of over <a href=\"http:\/\/dlib.nyu.edu\/findingaids\/html\/bhs\/arms_2011_019\/\" target=\"_blank\">100 oral history interviews<\/a> is available for use in the Othmer Library and a portion of the contents are accessible online at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbbg.brooklynhistory.org\/listen\" target=\"_blank\">CBBG website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/accessing-the-crossing-borders-bridging-generations-oral-history-collection-through-the-digital-humanities\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cbbg1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An exciting feature of the CBBG website is a new digital humanities application known as OHMS, or the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer. OHMS, developed by oral history wunderkind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oralhistoryonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Boyd and his team at the University of Kentucky Libraries<\/a>, tackles an inherent challenge in oral history archives, i.e. accessing the oral history via the recording manifestation vs. transcript manifestation. While the audio recording provides the richness and context of the narrator\u2019s voice, the transcript offers researchers the capacity to conduct keyword searches throughout the interview. OHMS solves this dilemma by marrying the audio recording to the transcript, thereby making both manifestations of the interview searchable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynhistory.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/accessing-the-crossing-borders-bridging-generations-oral-history-collection-through-the-digital-humanities\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accessing the Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Oral History Collection through the Digital Humanities Brooklyn Historical Society Blog Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn, New York 2015-03-23 Julia Lipkins I\u2019m pleased to announce that the Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations (CBBG) oral history collection is now open for research! From 2011 to 2014, a team of oral historians sponsored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,395,459,8,20],"tags":[6675,6560,19740,19738,2711,19739,19741],"class_list":["post-40603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-historical-society","tag-doug-boyd","tag-julia-lipkins","tag-new-york","tag-oral-history-metadata-synchronizer","tag-university-of-kentucky-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}