I thought this might be helpful. It is virtual.
AfroCrowd had a brief partnership with the Oral History Master program, and
one of their students worked with AfroCrowd for a year.
At the Wikimania Conference in Singapore several presentations I attended
talked about AI. In 2019, at the Wikimania in Sweden a panel I went to
said, pay attention to AI.
Take care.
So many events are virtual since the COVID lockdowns. This is a blessing.
Linda Fletcher-Dabo
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Date: Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 10:34 AM
Subject: Using AI to Analyze and Organize Oral History
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*Using AI to Analyze and Organize Oral History | October 5*
Register below for the second fall workshop event, Using AI to Analyze and
Organize Oral History!
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*Thursday, October 5, 6:00-7:30pm ET | Virtual Event*
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AI to Analyze and Organize Oral History with Chris Pandza β23*
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When transcribed, a modestly-sized oral history project with 20 interviews
might produce 270,000 wordsβalmost five novels worth of text. But unlike
novels, oral history interviews are not neatly structured into chapters but
rather follow the idiosyncratic richness of human memory recall and
storytelling. This quality is part of what makes oral history interviews so
valuable, but it can also create significant barriers to information access
and analysis.
Outside of oral history, other fields are approaching challenges related to
unstructured human language using natural language processing (NLP). NLP is
an AI field that deals with understanding and generating human language.
Treating language as data can feel antithetical to oral historyβs
epistemological and ethical tenetsβbut does it have to be?
To explore this possibility, OHMA alum Chris Pandza set out to organize and
analyze the Ellis Island Oral History archive, a collection with nearly
2,000 immigration-related interviews from various projects conducted since
the 1970s. Applying AI to the archive, Pandza was able to approach key
disciplinary questions at a scale never before possible. For example, how
do interview topics relate to project design choices? In practice, how are
interview agendas negotiated by interviewers and narrators? Do different
interviewers produce measurably different interviews?
Through some practical examples, Pandza will demonstrate why and how oral
historians might consider NLP and AI tools as part of their toolkit in this
workshop series.
*Chris Pandza*'s oral history work focuses on using a variety of artificial
intelligence tools to analyze, organizeβand sometimes generateβoral
histories.
While an OHMA student, Chris produced Nobodyβs Diary, a chatbot trained to
emulate his daily audio diaries. For his thesis work, which won a Jeffrey
H. Brodsky Oral History Award in 2023, Chris used several tools to organize
and analyze the Ellis Island Oral History archive, a collection of nearly
2,000 narrations from immigrants and others whose lives intersected with
Ellis Island.
Chris graduated from OHMA in 2023 and now manages design at Incite. His
research interests include immigration, environmental justice, aging, and
memory.
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Oral history as a research tool has been at times almost synonymous with a
certain kind of interviewing: one-on-one, biographical, long-form,
recorded, and intended for the archive.
In this series of events
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we will explore other approaches to doing oral history, from using scuba
diving to record the stories of underwater landscapes to creating chatbots
to elicit oral histories and using AI to make sense of how interviews work.
Workshops take place on Thursday evenings (ET) from 6-7:30PM, where each
event will include a hands-on experience or interactive space to try out
and reflect on these new approaches.
Series Lineup
Thursday, September 21, 2023, 6-7:30pm
*Can AI Collect Oral Histories? Probing a Community-Based Conversational
Storytelling Agent to Document Digital Stories of Housing Insecurity*
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*with Brett Halperin (recording available online TBD)*
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 6-7:30pm
*Using AI to Analyze and Organize Oral History*
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*with Chris Pandza β23 (online)*
Thursday, November 2, 2023, 6-7:30pm
*History is not Past - Using Oral History for Policy Change*
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*with Danita Mason-Hogans (in-person)*
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 6-7:30pm
*The land that sustains us is the land of the ancestors*
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*with Kristina Douglass (online)*
*All events will be hosted either in person or online via Zoom.* They are
free and open to the public with pre-registration required. After
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