Oral History Online: Implementing OHMS at Brooklyn Historical Society

The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) is a new digital humanities tool developed by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky. OHMS provides researchers with the unique ability to simultaneously conduct keyword searches in both the oral history audio recording and transcript.
The Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) piloted OHMS for their groundbreaking oral history project, Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations (CBBG), which examines the experiences of mixed-race and mixed-heritage people in the historically diverse borough of Brooklyn. BHS holds over 1,200 oral history interviews and CBBG, a born digital project, is the first BHS oral history collection to be made available online.
This presentation will examine traditional and new methods of providing access to oral history collections; workflows for processing oral history collections; the implementation of OHMS at BHS; and recommendations for using OHMS.