Maine MILL Team Planning

Our group ultimately chose to work with oral histories. We decided we will split the work up by evenly dividing the amount of oral histories and working with the photos, audio files, and transcripts for our chosen people. Our process of organizing these materials will involve listening (involving a cassette player, CD player, and audio playback on our laptops from MP3 files) to the oral stories, reviewing the transcripts, assessing corresponding photos, and ultimately coming up with an organization system for all of these components. Our overarching goal is to curate a cohesive system that makes these oral histories much more consumable by a modern general public. I see my own individual role in working on organizing my portion of the oral histories in order to contribute to the greater system.

I think this work aligns well with our learning about DH because I can see the importance in doing it. Knowing that unless these stories become more organized and consumable they will be lost, especially since many storytellers have passed, makes this an important and worthwhile task. Presentation will resemble a sort of gallery, much more organized and formatted than it currently is, and will fit in with Maine MILL's efforts to make their content more relevant and accessible to a wider audience.

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  1. AnnaOctober 18, 2022 at 9:59 AM

    This sounds interesting Jordan. I like the idea of a gallery approach. That way, visitors can have the option of selecting what they are interested in listening to, and there are plenty of things to choose from.

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