North Carolina Veterans Oral History Transcription Project
The State Archives of North Carolina and State Library of North Carolina are proud to announce the launching of an Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA grand-funded pilot project called the Veterans Oral History Transcription Project. One of the first of its kind in the country, the project’s goal is to make recorded oral history interviews more accessible by creating textual transcriptions of the audio files by involving the public to crowdsource the transcriptions. We are asking for multiple members of the public to work on the transcriptions, and have the option for people sign up as a volunteer reviewer of transcripts once they are completed.
This project currently includes twelve oral history interviews of women veterans from the Military Veterans Oral History Collection of the Military Collection at the State Archives of North Carolina. The Military Collection’s The Veterans Oral History Program’s mission is to capture and provide access to the memories and experiences of the military servicemen and servicewomen from the state of North Carolina, preserving them for the benefit of the public and scholars.
We invite you to follow the project’s transcription guidelines and be a part of the crowdsourcing effort to make women’s military history more accessible to the public. As this initial transcription project progresses, more oral history interviews may be added to the initial twelve with which we need your help in transcribing.
Follow the project here: https://omeka.ncpedia.org/exhibits/show/transcribing-oral-histories/help-us-transcribe.
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Post ReplyIt's good to hear that such an institute has been created. Those of you interested might also want to check out the Reichelt Oral History collection, established by the history department at Florida State University in 1996. https://www.lib.fsu.edu/reichelt. Another perhaps unknown or lesser known gem associated with Florida State University is the Institute for World War II and the Human Experience, which has a fairly large collection of veterans' letters and records. I was a grad student there when the Institute was getting off the ground and if memory serves, within a year or so of its existence, Tom Brokaw donated all the letters from veterans he had accumulated and used to write The Greatest Generation. https://ww2.fsu.edu/
Regards
Joyce Sampson
US Naval War College at Monterey, CA
It's good to hear such an institute has been established. Those of you interested in veterans' oral histories may be interested to check out the Reichelt Oral Collection, established by the history department at Florida State University in 1996. Those interested in World War II veterans' collections may also want to look at an unknown (or perhaps lesser known) gem, also at the Florida State University, and that is the Institute for World War II and the Human Experience, which has travel/research grants. I was a grad student when those two institutions were getting off the ground and worked with the WWII one. If memory serves, within a short time of its establishment, Tom Brokaw donated all the letters he had accumulated from veterans to write The Greatest Generation to the WWII institute and it has grown considerably since then. https://ww2.fsu.edu/.
Regards
Dr. Joyce Sampson
US Naval War College at Monterey.
I don't know if anyone else is getting this, but there is an error on the Omeka link and the site isn't loading. Any way it can be updated?
Thank you for the notice. We have had this from other people as well. By chance this H-Net posting happened to get shared on the day our Omeka site went down Friday, December 28, while our developer is out of town for the holidays. It is an error in the Omeka server. We'll correct it by Wednesday and I'll repost to H-Net to let everyone know. Thanks again, and Happy New Year.