Creating a System for the Online Delivery of Oral History Content
Chris Petersen · PDXScholar (Portland State University) · 2017
Over the past four years, faculty and staff in the OSU Libraries have created the largest oral history collection ever gathered at Oregon State University. This same group of archivists, programmers, and students have created a platform for the delivery of contextualized video- and audio-recorded oral history interviews, complete with transcripts delivered as web text and PDF, as well as contextual information (biographical sketches, abstracts) for each interview. Interviews are also tagged according to interviewee affiliation or theme, and can be sorted as such. This talk will discuss the platform that the OSU Libraries created to present this information online. The platform relies upon description of digital objects using the METS, MODS, and TEI metadata standards, as well as custom XSL stylesheets that batch generate HTML for eventual upload to the web.