Interested in undertaking your own oral history project with DH Press?
Check out these resources:
PowerPoint: Download the PowerPoint for the “Behind the Scenes: The Making of Digital Portobelo” workshop, held 15 April 2014 at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PDF version also available).
PowerPoint 2.0: Download the PowerPoint (or alternative smaller file) for the HASTAC 2015 workshop, held 28 May 2015 at Michigan State University (PDF version also available).
Data: Download the data for the first phase of the project.
Data Dictionary: View the data dictionary we used to construct the data. Note that this dictionary is for the original project, and does not include data for the Gallery View.
Transcript Formatting: View the protocols for formatting your transcripts for DH Press.
Additional Resources: Read more about using DH Press with oral histories in these two blog posts: Blog 1 | Blog 2
DH Press Documentation: Documentation for DH Press version 2.5 and higher can be accessed here.
What You’ll Need:
| Category | Item | Notes |
| Digital content | Oral histories, transcripts | Partial or full transcripts are required; use up to 2 transcripts per oral history |
| Tools | Audio editing software | E.g.: Audacity, GarageBand (Mac) |
| Tool for timestamping | Express Scribe provides timestamps down to the microsecond | |
| Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet should support UTF-8 encoding (Excel does not; OpenOffice does) | |
| Web resources | SoundCloud account | SoundCloud Pro Unlimited account allows for unlimited uploads |
| WordPress | Requires server space (free hosting at wordpress.com is not compatible); server space can be acquired via third-party hosting, such as HostGator | |
| DH Press plugin | Grab the latest version from GitHub and the base map library |