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The SAA Oral History Project Digital Collection at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM) will be launched during the ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2016 Oral History Section meeting (Thursday, August 3, 2016 3:30pm-5:00pm). The project intern, Treshani Perera, will discuss her experience processing and creating the digital collection, with special emphasis on indexing and creating metadata using the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS). A video montage of interview segments will be on display throughout the conference.
The collection was created by the Oral History Section to mark SAA’s 75th anniversary, and consists of 20 interviews of SAA leaders. From 2009 to 2012, volunteers conducted interviews with SAA leaders to document the development and future directions of SAA, the archives profession, and the archivist as a professional. Under Coordinator of the SAA Oral History Project Lauren Kata’s guidance, volunteers organized the material, compiled basic metadata, and created first/initial drafts of transcripts to accompany interviews. In May 2015, Council approved a grant to hire an intern at the UWM Libraries, home to the SAA archives, in order to complete the project and create a digital collection. The digital collection is hosted using the UWM Digital Collections platform CONTENTdm; interviews are indexed and presented with synchronized transcripts using OHMS, a web application developed by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. The digital collection features video recordings of 19 interviews, full transcripts both in PDF format and synchronized with video recording, and keywords and titles describing interview segments.
View the complete collection at http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/search/collection/saa.
