Douglas A. Boyd

Douglas A. Boyd (born March 12, 1970) is an oral historian, folklorist and author and currently directs the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky. He graduated from Denison University with a B.A. in History and graduated from Indiana University with an M.A. and Ph.D. in Folklore. He is known for his work regarding oral history and digital technologies including his work on the OHMS system (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer). Recently served as executive producer on the award-winning documentary Quest for the Perfect Bourbon: Voices of Buffalo Trace Distillery and is active in the Oral History Association, Society for American Archivists, and the American Folklore Society. Formerly, Boyd managed the digital program for the University of Alabama Libraries, directed the Kentucky Oral History Commission, and served as the senior archivist for the folklife and oral history collections at the Kentucky Historical Society. He is also author of Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community which was published by University Press of Kentucky and was featured on C-Span's Book TV.^[1] He also regularly appears on the radio show Saving Stories.

Oral History and Digital Technology

Doug Boyd is a recognized national leader regarding oral history, preservation, archives and digital technologies ^[2] Boyd served as a keynote speaker for the Oral History Association's annual meeting in 2011.^[3] Recently Boyd led the team that envisioned, designed and implemented the open source OHMS system that synchronizes text with audio and video online.^[4] He also recently launched and open-source, online oral history collection management database system called SPOKEdb. Additionally, he has produced short informational videos on YouTube regarding common digital recorders utilized by oral historians.

Recent Scholarship

• Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community, University Press of Kentucky, July 2011^[5]
• "Achieving the Promise of Oral History in a Digital Age," in The Oxford Handbook to Oral History, edited by Don Ritchie, Oxford University Press, October 2010
• Co-General Editor; Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series University Press of Kentucky
• Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers by Angene and Jack Wilson, February 2011
• Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky by Tracy K’Meyer and Catherine Fosl, May 2009
• This is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors by Arwen Donohue and Rebecca Howell, May 2009
• Co-Editor, Producer; The Stars of Ballymenone: Stories, Songs and Instrumental Music from the North of Ireland. Co-Authored Compact Disc accompanying the book by Henry Glassie. Indiana University Press, March 2006.^[6]

External links

• Saving Stories Blog Saving Stories: A Blog About Kentucky Oral History, the Nunn Center, and Digital Technologies
• Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries

References

1. ^ "Interview with Author Douglas A. Boyd," C-Span BookTV, August 27–28
2. ^ "A Fight to Keep Norther Ireland Interviews Secret, NPR's All Things Considered, June 15, 2011 [1]
3. ^ The Oral History Association Annual Meeting Program, 2011
4. ^ "New Tool Could Help Researchers Make Better Use of Oral Histories" by Brad Wolverton in The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2011.[2]
5. ^ "Book shows another side of Frankfort's lost Crawfish Bottom" by By Valarie Honeycutt Spears. Lexington Herald Leader, September 4, 2011. [3]
6. ^ The Oral History Review, Summer-Fall 2011 38 (2)

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Name	Boyd, Douglas A.
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Short description	Historian
Date of birth	March 12, 1970
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