It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Once you have your curation plan in place, revisit your materials. Make sure they are all titled (including supplemental things like background research and forms) according to your plan. And if they’re not, start making improvements now! 

Resources 

• File Naming in the Digital Age by Dean Rehberger and Brendan Coates http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/08/file-naming-in-the-digital-age/
• “Oral History Curation in the Digital Age: A Framework for Choices and Planning,” Michael Frisch, Douglas Lambert, Mark Tebeau, and Erin Bell
  http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/oral-history-curation-in-the-digital-age/ 
• Kenyon College, “Archiving Oral histories” https://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=librarydocs
  Adventures in AV Archive at Duke University: https://sites.duke.edu/archivox/2015/01/29/oral-history-class-quick-reference/ 
• Nancy MacKay, Curating Oral Histories: From Interview to Archive, Routledge, 2016. 
• SPOH Naming system: In general, all of our supplemental materials are titled in this way:
  • Lastname, First initial. Type of material. So, you might see a document that says, Atwater,K.Index. 
  • Clips have the time taken from the interview in the title of the clip. So, Atwater,K.2.25.Mentors. 
  • Images go date first then person, then location or event. 1990.CardenasLibrary. 2003.PacGroundbreaking.

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Create a plan for naming and storage, and then follow it.

Resources 

• File Naming in the Digital Age by Dean Rehberger and Brendan Coates http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/08/file-naming-in-the-digital-age/
• “Oral History Curation in the Digital Age: A Framework for Choices and Planning,” Michael Frisch, Douglas Lambert, Mark Tebeau, and Erin Bell 
  http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/2012/06/oral-history-curation-in-the-digital-age/ 
• Kenyon College, “Archiving Oral histories” https://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=librarydocs
  Adventures in AV Archive at Duke University: https://sites.duke.edu/archivox/2015/01/29/oral-history-class-quick-reference/ 
  Nancy MacKay, Curating Oral Histories: From Interview to Archive, Routledge, 2016. 

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Transcribe, or begin to transcribe your interview.

**If you don’t have your own interview to transcribe, you are more than welcome to request a sample interview from me! Please reach out to us @SMCChistory #MoreandMoreEveryday and we’ll happily share our sample materials with you.

Resources 

• Baylor, Oral History Research Center: https://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/66438.pdf 
• The Library of Congress, American Folklife Center: “Indexing and Transcribing Your Interviews” https://www.loc.gov/vets/transcribe.html 
• Guide to Transcribing and Summarizing Oral Histories, https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Programs/ResearchDocuments/guide_to_transcribing_and_summarizing_oral_histories.pdf 
• Oral History Association, Best Practices, https://www.oralhistory.org/archives-principles-and-best-practices-complete-manual/ 
• Nancy MacKay, Curating Oral Histories: From Interview to Archive (Routledge, 2016). 

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Create a plan for formatting and working through your transcript.   

Resources 

• The Library of Congress, American Folklife Center: “Indexing and Transcribing Your Interviews” https://www.loc.gov/vets/transcribe.html 
• Columbia University, Center for Oral History Research: “Oral History Transcription Guide.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/575a10ba27d4bd5d7300a207/t/5a5f95a2652dea3cec32aacc/1516213672572/CCOHR+Transcript+Style+Guide+2018.pdf 
• Southern Oral History Program, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “A Practical Guide to Oral History,” https://sohp.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/69/2013/11/A-Practical-Guide-to-Oral-History_march2014.pdf 
• Chicago Manual of Style, Citing Oral Histories https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0026.html 
• Nancy MacKay, Curating Oral Histories: From Interview to Archive (Routledge, 2016). 

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Using the interview you have conducted, draft a biographical story of your narrator including all of these elements: Title, role, 500 words about him/her and his/her context, quotes, and a conclusion. Throughout the story,  identify good spots for audio or video clips, and/or images.   

Resources 

• Swain, Ellen D. “Oral History in the Archives: Its Documentary Role in the Twenty-First Century.” The American Archivist, vol. 66, no. 1, 2003, pp. 139–158.
• Mahajan S. Beyond the Archives: Doing Oral History in Contemporary India. Studies in History. 2011;27(2):281-298. doi:10.1177/025764301245942
• Thomson, Alistair. “Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History.” The Oral History Review, vol. 34, no. 1, 2007, pp. 49–70. 
• Previous challenges on context: You and Your Narrator in Historical Context (Part I) (Part II) 
• South Phoenix Oral History Context labs: https://youtu.be/dfeMP9RNbx0 or https://youtu.be/pS-7jF56zJE 

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Explore our signature collection at Southphoenixoralhistory.com, looking common elements in our biographical profiles.

And a special note to our listeners who may not be writing for our collection specifically, that’s okay! Use our collection as a jumping off point, or find a different collection that’s more up your alley. Either way, the goal is to look at what has been done before and adapt it to your needs. 

Today's Resources: 

• Sample stories at South Phoenix Oral History Project: https://southphoenixoralhistory.com/narrators/

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More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: Read the article and reflect. As you read this article in preparation of writing your final story for publication, what does it make you think about? Try to explain how your writing will fit within the framework of your personal research.

Today's Resources: 

• History Matters, “Interpreting Oral History” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/interpret.html 
• South Phoenix Oral History Project, “After the Interview: Writing Your Story” (p. 19). https://southphoenixoralhistory.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/training-spoh-oral-history-materials-1-1.pdf
• South Phoenix Oral History Project, “Final Story Writing Lab,” https://youtu.be/odsORCZV2kc 
• South Phoenix Oral History Project, South Phoenix and SMCC Memories: https://southphoenixoralhistory.com/narrators/  

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It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: practice indexing an oral history. 

• Indexing as Engaging Oral History Research: Using OHMS to “Compose History” in the Writing Classroom by Douglas A. Boyd, Janice W. Fernheimer &Rachel Dixon, Oral History Review
• Transcribing Oral History” https://www.routledge.com/Transcribing-Oral-History/Bergen/p/book/9780815350934
• Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Resources: https://libraries.uky.edu/libpage.php?lweb_id=11&llib_id=13<ab_id=1369  
• OHMS Training: https://www.oralhistoryonline.org/new-video-tutorial-using-ohms-to-index-oral-history/ 
• Oral History Association, Best Practices” https://www.oralhistory.org/best-practices/  

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: brainstorm and define the components of an oral history index. 

Today's Resources: 

• Indexing as Engaging Oral History Research: Using OHMS to “Compose History” in the Writing Classroom by Douglas A. Boyd, Janice W. Fernheimer &Rachel Dixon, Oral History Review
• Transcribing Oral History” https://www.routledge.com/Transcribing-Oral-History/Bergen/p/book/9780815350934
• Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Resources: https://libraries.uky.edu/libpage.php?lweb_id=11&llib_id=13<ab_id=1369  
• OHMS Training: https://www.oralhistoryonline.org/new-video-tutorial-using-ohms-to-index-oral-history/ 
• Oral History Association, Best Practices” https://www.oralhistory.org/best-practices/  

Share your progress with us:
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More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association. 

It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.

Today's prompt: write a curation plan, with specific focus on your technology storage needs. 

Today's Resources: 

• Steven Siellaff, “Brave New World: A Guide to Twenty-First Century Technology for
• Oral History.” 2017. https://www.baylor.edu/toha/doc.php/310617.pdf 
• Nancy MacKay, Curating Oral Histories: From Interview to Archive, Routledge, 2016. 

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More and More Every Day is brought to you by the South Phoenix Oral History Project at South Mountain Community College, in partnership with the Southwest Oral History Association.