Jimmy: you may also want to investigate using a free web-based tool, the
IVT (Interactive Video / Transcript viewer), to view and search the
content which your taxonomies and vocabularies will describe.
"The Oral Narratives archive currently includes eighteen interviews, and
about sixteen hours of video. The archive is made available here using a
special viewer developed at UBC. This viewer, the Interactive Video /
Transcript viewer, or IVT, allows you to see the video and a linked
transcript simultaneously, and to navigate easily within a session or
among the sessions. It also allows you to search a session, or the whole
series, by word or phrase to find sections of interest, that you may
then view immediately. The IVT also has built-in menus containing
summaries of the contents of the sessions. The IVT also has other
advanced features that allow linking from other sources, such as written
articles..."
"The IVT viewer was developed by the First Nations Studies Program at
the University of British Columbia, and is freely available to you to
use on your projects."
More information: http://fnsp.arts.ubc.ca/klamath/
Gregory Renaud
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Jimmy:
What Jane said ... :-)
Also, if you decide to develop your own vocabularies to help you
describe some aspects of your work, feel free to use the NSDL Registry
(http://metadataregistry.org) to develop and expose your vocabularies.
There are basic instructions on the site for doing so, and the registry
is free and open.
Regards,
Diane Hillmann
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Jane Greenberg wrote:
> Hello Jimmy,
>
> This is an exciting project, and it would be good for you to consult
> an archival cataloger to learn about the tools and standards that are
> accessible to you. You might also communicate with a faculty member
> or graduate students the School of Information at U.Michigan, or
> consider hiring someone in the area of archival description /
> cataloging to help you, or at least as a consultant to get you
started.
>
> Two people who come to mind are Beth Yakel (faculty) and Devon
> Donaldson (a new doctoral student) both in the library/information
> sci. program at U.Michigan, AA.
>
> There are standards for cataloging oral histories, although it seems
> you are also in need of vocabulary to describe your content. The
> DublinCore is simple, and may satisfy your needs to some degree, but
> it would be good to know about the standards available to you.
>
> One metadata scheme will not solve all your needs. The metadata
> community often works with multiple standards, and it also sounds as
> though you are interested in more free form tagging, the taxonomy
> approach...which adds to your mix.
>
> This is a brief reply, but hopefully helpful.
>
> best wishes, jane
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jane Greenberg, Francis Carroll McColl Term Professor,
> and Director of the Metadata Research Center <MRC>
> School of Information and Library Science
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> CB #3360, 205 Manning Hall
> Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3360
>
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>
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Jimmy Rhoades wrote:
>
>> I am beginning a program that trains high school students to entering
>> nursing homes to videotape, over multiple visits, the oral histories
of
>> elders. The project presents valuable curriculum opportunities for
>> educators, an eye-opening experience for students, and significant
>> therapeutic value for the senior citizens, who too often feel bored
and
>> isolated in long term care.
>>
>> We will very soon have a large number of oral histories on video,
>> containing first person narratives on just about any topic that a
>> person can experience
>> in a lifetime... Prohibition, WWII, Great Depression, sure. But also
>> social
>> movements like the lessening of the divorce taboo, the changing
>> nature of the family meal, the ebb and flow of American race
>> relations... a huge (and
>> growing) mass of unpredictable data, basically, that will only have
>> enduring
>> value if it is searchable.
>>
>> So we would like to make the project's video archives searchable
using a
>> metadata taxonomy. We want gerontologists, researchers, community
>> groups, families, etc. to be able to find the kind of information
>> they're looking
>> for once we're done!
>>
>> Accurate use of the DC taxonomy seems essential from the outset. (We
>> have
>> already begun with small groups of students, so we can catch up to
>> where we are so far; by fall, the numbers will grow many times over
>> so we need
to
>> begin tagging as a regular part of the students' curriculum.) I will
>> use
>> the tutorial information to train the students in tagging myself if
>> needed, but was wondering if more qualified training personnel exist.
>> If so,
>> how
>> might we find such a person in the Southeast Michigan (Ann
>> Arbor/Detroit)
>> region?
>>
>> Many thanks for any advice you might have!
>>
>> Jimmy Rhoades
>> Community Outreach Director, The Legacies Project [log in to unmask]
>>
>
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