Interviews

Part two of the interview series appeared yesterday. You can find it at https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/02/22/the-future-of-scholarly-s...

Margaret

Thanks, Margaret, for posting this. As the founder / executive director of a tiny scholarly enterprise myself - The Society for the History of Navy Medicine - I’m vitally interested in what the assembled “practitioners” will have to say. Cheers— Tom Snyder

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Mastering Oral History: A Concise Guide

International Workshop
19 March 2022

There will be two groups (same workshop, different time)
Group 1:   11:00 a.m. Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia
Group 2:   19.00 p.m. Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from the American continent
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Їжа та культура | Food and Culture

Interview with Olena Braichenko

Conducted and translated by Iryna Skubii and edited by Sandra Joy Russell

We're a transcription company, and there are just so many things that can go wrong with mobile phone recordings. I just tried to solve some inaudibles where the interviewer and interviewee accidentally spoke over each other, and the volume seems to have escalated wildly.

Hi Nancy,

Kia ora koutou. It hasn't been recommended to use mobile phones in the past, and it isn't best practice, but there may be times when it's necessary. And microphone technology on phones has come a long way -- it's better than some recording devices from past decades.

Hi Nancy,

Speaking from experience, it isn't recommended to use a mobile phone for oral history interviews. Your phone could heat up and shut down, run out of memory space, the file could become corrupted, or you could experience some sort of other interruptions, like phone calls or texts.

The next best thing is to use an inexpensive handheld recorder like the Zoom H1N. It runs about $100 and is totally worth the investment.

Hope this helps,

Mo Gurrola

Greetings, colleagues,

I'm looking for current best practices for recording interviews (audio and video) using moblie phones or other common household recorders.

Thank you in advance,

Nancy MacKay

Independent oral historian

nancymackay@gmail.com