1. New Dialogues with the Research Community. About the Collection, Management and Dissemination of Interview Data Marion Wittenberg www.dans.knaw.nl

2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Paula Witkamp Paula.witkamp@dans.knaw.nl Rene van Horik Rene.van.horik@dans.knaw.nl

3. 2008 conference on archiving oral history data

4. Veteran tapes project Enhanced publication Collaboration of: Veteran Institute Stef Scagiola KWALON Fred Wester SPEX Henk van den Heuvel, Eric Sanders DANS Paula Witkamp, Rene van Horik

5. Source Veteran tapes project Veteran institute Dutch Ministry of Defense Veterans (WOII until recent missions) Collection of 1000 interviews Subset of 25 interviews with transcriptions

6. Research Corpus Veteran tapes project 25 interviews Each between 2 – 2.5 hrs Recorded at 44 kHz Stored in 16 kHz, 16 bits wave Orthographically transcribed and aligned with audio Rich body of metadata Stored at DANS with Persistent Identifiers

7. Researchers Veteran tapes project  7 disciplines  7 perspectives Ideas about allies and enemies Discourse about acts of violence Moral dilemmas Religion and spirituality How to deal with shocking incidents We and Them: ideas about local inhabitants Personal experiences versus formal history

8. The fragment fitter tool Veteran tapes project Find fragment Inspect audio Adjust transcription Add annotation Select metadata

9. Enhanced publication Veteran tapes project

10. The data behind the publication Interview and fragment Audio Transcription Metadata

11. Problems and drawbacks Veteran tapes project Access to the fragment versus access to the whole interview Rating system Decontextualisation Difference between disciplines Archive format versus analyses format Persistent identifiers Citation

12. Telling Witnesses of WOII Project of the Ministry of Welfare Interviews with hundreds of eyewitnesses to the Second World War on video Digital core collection oral history

13. Things to be solved 47 different project leaders to deal with Much diversity: researchers, filmmakers, archives, organisations like the Anne Frank foundation How do we get the appropriate metadata Which formats? Archive versus distribution Streaming server embedded in our archiving system Privacy aspects

14. Cooperation – ‘ Verteld verleden’ Platform for oral history in the Netherlands Institute for audio visual heritage - Beeld en Geluid Institute for women history – Aletta Institute on language and culture in the Netherlands – Meertens Institute DANS – Data Archiving and Networked Services

15. Many oral history data