The challenges I am facing for this week are drafting a set of interview or oral history questions, deciding on voice recording or video recording of my interviewees, and redesigning some of the Exhibit pages in my project site. After making the effort to contact influential Korean Americans in North Texas, I have received positive responses. I am in the process of scheduling a time and place to meet two people (first generation Korean Americans) who will contribute to my project. The interviewees speak Korean and English fluently, so the transcripts of the interviews will be a challenge if both languages are used. Another challenge is that I am still trying to figure out how to include Korean language for some of the description of the Exhibit items. Since my Korean is not the best, I might ask someone to proofread and edit my Korean. Also, I have to go back to the drawing board or storyboard and redesign a page or pages for the Exhibits in Omeka because I might add a voice recording or video recording to complement some of the Exhibit items. I will explore plugins for uploading the recordings in Omeka; however, I am currently learning how to annotate oral history by using the OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer). I am also learning about the different digital files and conversions for the interview recordings. The readings and site explorations for Module 7 have inspired me to look at my project from a different point of view and to revisit the concept of user centered exhibit when oral history becomes part of the project site.
