Sharing True Stories: Supporting and Sustaining Collaborative Digital Oral History Archives and Research

摘要

The grant-funded [True] Stories project aims to provide instructors from a variety of disciplines and on multiple campuses the critical resources and expertise needed to make student-driven oral history work possible, impactful, accessible, and a permanent part of collections. As such, the project PIs are committed to building and vetting a practical model for oral history classroom collaborations between smaller, moderately-funded college archives or libraries. In addition to the expected challenges of technological and interdisciplinary collaboration, the [True] Stories face critical digital preservation decisions and roadblocks: shared and sustainable digital storage solutions; a standard set of acquisition, processing, and curatorial practices to ensure format and quality control; and a highly discoverable and functional, institution-agnostic online access portal. In the spirit of practical modeling, this working group is intended to propose flexible collaboration strategies and sustainable solutions for these issues.