Video Recording of the Open Lecture on Mixed-methods Digital Oral History: Reflections on Limits, Horizons and Emerging Findings by Prof. J. Nyhan is available online

On 9th July, Prof. Julianne Nyhan gave a lecture on “Mixed-methods Digital Oral History: Reflections on Limits, Horizons and Emerging Findings” as a part of the „Digital History“-Forschungskolloquiums.

21.11.2025

It explores the possibilities and issues that attend the take-up of digital methods in oral history with particular focus on AI-based approaches. The first project, Mixed-Methods Digital Oral History, funded by the DFG-AHRC bilateral initiative, integrates Semantic Web and AI technologies with historical-interpretative analysis to better understand narratives of formation, disruption, and change in the history of computing in the humanities. The second, Multimodal Digital Oral History (Smyth, Nyhan, and Flinn 2023), develops methodologies and technical workflows for engaging with the full range of oral history modalities—transcripts, sound, waveforms, and metadata—across both retro-digitised and born-digital collections.