The Oral History Unit & Collective invite you to be part of a workshop with Doug Boyd from the Louie B. Nunn Centre for Oral History in Kentucky (USA).

Doug Boyd is visiting us to discuss options for digital presentation of oral history using the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer system (OHMS) http://www.oralhistoryonline.org/. Doug will be beginning a six month residency in Canberra, Australia, in January to develop an integration of OHMS with the system used by the National Library of Australian, so this is an opportune time to have him visit.

The workshop will be on Tuesday 25 September at 10.00am. Doug will contextualise the OHMS software in relation to archival public access and digital humanities more generally. This will be an opportunity to see this digital tool in practice, and for oral historians and digital humanities scholars to meet Doug and hear about his work.

Following the workshop, there will be an oportunity to continue discussions over lunch.

About Doug Boyd:

Doug Boyd is the co-editor (with Mary A. Larson) of the book Oral History and Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2014, and he is the author of the book Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community which was published in August 2011 by the University Press of Kentucky. He authors the blog Digital Omnium: Oral History, Archives, and Digital Technology and is the author of numerous articles pertaining to oral history, archives and digital technologies.

In addition to writing, Doug also co-hosts and co-produces The Wisdom Project podcast, co-hosts the Saving Stories radio program and podcast on Lexington’s NPR station WUKY and he recently served as Executive Producer on the documentaries Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Distilling the Family Business and Quest for the Perfect Bourbon.

OHMS Demonstration Workshop with Doug Boyd