Talk:Oral history

message: Took off unsourced tag, because, in addition to the reference in the reference section, there are a ton of references in the external links section.  - Jb? 11:40, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: The external links section is way too long, especially compared to the rest of the article.  Remember WP is not a link farm. It should be pared down, but I am not the person to make the judgements.  The section could also be organized with subsections.  --Blainster 16:32, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the excessive external links tag.  There are not that many links and all of these are to government, university, or oral history professional sites. These are proper links and should remain. LarryQ 13:50, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What they really need, in order not to appear excessive to some eyes, is some organizing, most easily subsections and grouping the entries under them for coherence. Pandelver (talk) 00:07, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: External links section

message: I'm going to edit the external links, clean them up, and put them in alphabetical order. I'm also removing the "Storytellers" section since (a) none of the people are actually storytellers, in the oral tradition of storytelling sense of the word, and (b) storytellers should be listed in the wikipedia entry on storytelling, not under oral history. --Dalejarvis (talk) 14:32, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: General Cleanup

message: I think it'd be helpful to have the External links organized by country. HKU Libraries has a Hong Kong Oral History Archives (http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkoh/) which should be useful to researchers in the area. Jklai (talk) 09:25, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hong Kong Oral History

message: This page has a history of minor vandalism. Just undid one. Somebody look out? Lemchesvej (talk) 16:22, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: I think it would be very useful to have some information of the oral history of Australia added to this page, as well as Africa...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.109.160.19 (talk) 19:49, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Australia

message: way to turn the first link into "philosophy", xkcd-er. 68.193.112.240 (talk) 19:26, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  oh, you're funny /rolls eyes 

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message: Especially in the section on Czech OH, the English is garbled. Kdammers (talk) 15:22, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar Fix needed 

message: I think it will be helpful to include some hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission South Africa. Oral history gives voice to people who are historically invisible. It could be an excellent case to illustrate the value of oral histroy through how it can help people heal from the apartheid.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thequiche (talk • contribs) 09:39, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I like this idea! What about a section that addresses the use of oral-history in post-conflict locations / situations more broadly? I'm thinking about Cambodia (Khmer Rouge), Rwanda, Timor Leste off the top of my head but this is relevant to so many more places around the world. Born digital2 (talk) 02:54, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Testimony as Oral History in South Africa 

message: This page seems to be missing a fair number of sources, and it also has imbalanced information–it would be good if there were more sections on oral history traditions in specific geographies or communities. A section on the particular challenges and benefits of oral history might benefit from some additional information as well, though this has improved in the past few days with additional information about controversies related to oral history and verifiability.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dklionsky (talk • contribs) 08:07, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
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message: Hello, for a course assignment, I identified some areas where this entry could use some improvement. This work will take place over the next few weeks (Feb-Mar 2018). Some pieces I would like to tackle are:
* General proofreading, especially the Czech translation entry
* Shaping this with a common Wiki framework as found in more fleshed out entries (i.e. format, sections, etc.)
* Language: Tagging promotional language and/or clearing it up. Trying to update the intro and make it modern (reference to audio and video tapes needs updating).
* Resolving the "Organizations" section with "See also> Oral history organizations." 
:::Have you also considered deprecating the rather extensive section on regional oral histories into a section like "Notable Oral History Projects" and then subcategories? One thing that the current structure works against is anything that does not fall into a "national" category. For example, only brief mention of Holocaust testimonies, which are a major area of oral history gathering and present significant areas for preservation work (e.g., Shoah Foundation's projects), which are transnational and not national in scope; likewise, WWII histories might not to be meaningfully grouped by national traditions. The whole point of oral history is to record people's stories, either through structured documentation and/or self-recording, which is supposed to get *away* from the hegemony of nation-states as the major/only factor of a person's identity. (Not that some don't reinforce this, but we should be going for a balanced representation of activities in oral history as a field.) Morskyjezek (talk) 11:13, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Also looking at the resource on fieldwork & oral history that the Library of Congress provides may be useful. For example, https://www.loc.gov/folklife/edresources/ed-trainingdocuments.html & https://www.loc.gov/folklife/edresources/ed-cultdocresources.html. Morskyjezek (talk) 11:13, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: These seem like good directions! Morskyjezek (talk) 11:13, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

text: Your proposed restructuring makes sense, particularly because it helps to better contextualize oral history in the context of its practice and contributions to Western conceptions of history. Since many major projects have come from this view of the discipline, it is relevant. For your first subject heading, you might consider "History" or "Background". I think you might also want to place the references at the bottom of the article. At the end, you might want to place the Resources section in an "Additional Resources" subsection at the end, that section could include major journals, tools, projects, organizations, links, etc. Morskyjezek (talk) 14:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proofing, Shaping, and Expanding Entry 

message: I am also in a course with lc.umd and will be helping edit the article. I would like to edit the block quotes from the Columbia Encyclopedia and make that information more concise. I also want to add more sources and information about countries outside of the US. I noticed there is not really any information on how oral history is preserved digitally - do you all think this would be relevant to the article? Also from my research, I have seen that oral history tends to be useful for archaeology. Do you all think a section on how oral history relates on archaeology would be helpful/relevant? The resources I have so far to learn about this information are below.
Kavanagh, W. (2000). The past on the line : the use of oral history in the construction of present-day changing identities on the Portuguese-Spanish border. Borders And Borderlands : An Anthropological Perspective, 30(2), 47-56.
Lange, K. (2014). Producing (tribal) history : gendered representations of genealogy and warfare in northern Syria. Nomadic Peoples, 18(2), 34-52.
Larson, M. A. (2016). "The Medium Is the Message": Oral History, Media, and Mediation. Oral History Review, 43(2), 318-337. doi:10.1093/ohr/ohw052
Matusiak, K. K., Tyler, A., Newton, C., & Polepeddi, P. (2017). Finding access and digital preservation solutions for a digitized oral history project. Digital Library Perspectives, 33(2), 88-99. doi:10.1108/DLP-07-2016-0025
Mullins, P. 1. (2014). The rhetoric of things : historical archaeology and oral history. Historical Archaeology, 48(1), 105-109.
Webster, J. 1. (2014). The artifact as interviewer : experimenting with oral history at the Ovenstone miners' cottages site, Northumberland. Historical Archaeology, 48(1), 11-29.
Mreid123 (talk) 21:59, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: These sources all look good. Your main challenge may be in synthesizing the topic of archaeology and oral history - can you offer a brief characterization of this area, when it's started, and the major contributions of this as an activity? That will be a helpful frame to introduce this and why its important. Morskyjezek (talk) 11:16, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digital Preservation, Archaeology, and More Sources 

message: The section on national traditions of oral history does not seem to be an accurate representation of the field. I would suggest that this section be moved into a subheading like "Notable Oral History Projects" that can contain subheadings on topics (e.g., Holocaust testimonies, Storycorps) and brief explanations of the projects. Additional subheads could replicate the tree of regional/national projects now listed. Morskyjezek (talk) 11:22, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too Many Projects Listed in this Article