I stumbled upon and idea and I have a lot of interest in it. The museum I work for has conducted several oral history projects successfully, but this is before the advent of social media and I am wondering how to integrate Facebook and other social media platforms to collect other potential oral histories. I would love to be a part of this conversation.

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Chad

I just stumbled upon your very interesting idea. My museum is considering starting their own oral history project and I am very interested in hearing more about what was uncovered in your discussion. Is there anywhere that I can receive more information about it?

Thanks!

Allison

I think this sounds like an excellent topic for discussion. I am a Research Assistant at the Southern Oral History Program at UNC-Chapel Hill, and I (along with two of my colleagues) would be happy to share our experiences with building a digital oral history archive. I’d also be interested in hearing more about your ideas re: crowdsourcing subjects and stories.

Liz

I’d be very interested in discussing this at our camp! I am a history student at UWM, and I am planning on conducting a series of oral history interviews for my master’s thesis. I’d really like to learn more about the various ways in which I can make these stories available to as wide an audience as possible. Looking forward to speaking with you next week!

Luke

This sounds like a good conversation, and you are certainly correct about the possible dangers when it comes to permissions/consent. But this should not be something that derails us, especially as most oral histories languish in archives.

For exampe, I just discovered 80 oral histories of African American schoolteachers in Appalachia-each of whom taught in rural, all-black classrooms from the 1920s-60s. Most contributors are no longer with us, so how do we go about getting these digitized and available beyond the archive the right way?