About This Demo Site

This is the Oral History as Data (OHD) demo site. It features the transcripts and visualizations from CTRL+Shift as its content.

If you’d like to copy this template and get started, go to the OHD github template and click “Use This Template” – see more documentation below.

About Oral History (as) Data

The Oral History as Data (OHD) framework is a static website generator that allows users to analyze and publish coded oral history or qualitative interview files. By turning transcriptions into tagged/coded CSV files, adding a list of filters, and creating a simple markdown file for each interview (to be included in the _transcripts collection), OHD will provide filterable transcripts and a color coded visualization for all transcripts included.

Use this template site and the demo files included as examples for your own data/transcripts and then delete them. You can then delete this text and write your own about page for your project, using markdown

Documentation

More fully developed documentation for this site is being developed, but there are several places to get you started including documentation developed for the first version of this project.

• The Oral History as Data lesson plan will walk you through setting up a site. The site is built with instructors and students in mind. If you’re doing this on your own, just be both! Start with the “For Instructors” section and then follow the other sections to build your site.

• Detailed How To instructions can be found on the first iteration of the project’s website.
  • Everything should work the same; just use the newer github repository as your template.
• This site is built on CollectionBuilder-GH, so the CollectionBuilder documentation will help you do things like:
  • download software to develop this locally
  • serve the site from a different location
  • create a new page
  • Edit your about page

Please feel free to contact me with any questions. I’m happy to help. dbecker@uidaho.edu