Can the Wikimedia platform, tools and model help solve Oral History’s biggest problem - transcribing and digitizing the overwhelming number of unprocessed oral histories sitting in vaults around the world? Current Oral History MA student & Wikipedia Fellow (and Columbia’s first ever Wikimedian-In-Residence) Darold Cuba explores this possibility in a reflection of a Nov. 1, 2018 talk presented by Doug Boyd in the 2018 - 2019 OHMA workshop series, Oral History and the Future: Archives and Embodied Memory.
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Nyssa Chow is a current OHMA student. In this post, she responds to Paul Ortiz's recent talk on "Oral History in the Age of Black Lives Matter" by offering reflections on her personal experiences and fears amidst the current landscape of American culture and politics.
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