Oral History as Data

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A Jekyll template that allows users to analyze and publish coded oral history or qualitative interview transcripts.

Models For : Oral History Qualitative Data Analysis

People: Devin Becker (University of Idaho Library)

Colorful, SVG-based visualization for interviews based on coded subjects.

About Oral History as Data

The Oral History as Data (OHD) tool is a Jekyll template that allows users to analyze and publish coded oral history or qualitative interview files.

Context

Oral History as Data (OHD) was initially developed by Devin Becker for use in his CTRL-Shift web project in order to visualize the coded subjects for each interview. It has since been more fully developed and implemented into oral history collection sites for the Voices of Gay Rodeo and Idaho Queered projects and used as the analysis tool for a qualitative study of University of Idaho researchers. The development of the tool has has been supported by funding from the University of Idaho Library’s Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning and IMLS.

How

This tool can be used entirely through the GitHub web interface, and the generated website can be published via GitHub pages. To use the tool on a local computer, you would need to install Git, Ruby, and Jekyll.

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record contributor: Devin Becker (University of Idaho Library)
last update: 2021-08-04