Project partners, Advisory Board, Archive partners
Project partners
In the project Oral-History.Digital. Information Infrastructure for the Curation, Research and Annotation of Audiovisual Narrative Interviews (oh.d), Freie Universität Berlin (UB/CeDiS) cooperates with Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (Chair of Media Informatics), FernUniversität in Hagen (Institut für Geschichte und Biographie), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals), and the Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg (Workshop of Memory), in the first project phase also with Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Modern and Contemporary History).
The Archive Deutsches Gedächtnis at FernUniversität in Hagen contributes its extensive collections, many years of experience and its networks in the community and ensures the broad testing and sustainable use of the infrastructure.
The Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ensures long-term archiving and supports the indexing of interviews in the areas of speech recognition, alignment and anonymisation.
- Chair of Media Informatics at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (UniBA) / Prof. Dr. Andreas Henrich
The Chair of Media Informatics at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg supports the work on authority files, search functionalities and rights management.
The research environment was being tested for a study on the oral history of migration at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, now at FernUniversität Hagen.
The Digital Interview Collections department at the University Library (formerly at Center for Digital Systems) at Freie Universität Berlin contributes its software base, collections, experience, and networks to the project, and is responsible for the development and operation of the repository, the indexing and the research environment.
The "Werkstatt der Erinnerung" (Workbook of Memory) at the Research Centre for Contemporary History is contributing its experience, networks and collections to the project.
Scientific Advisory Board
In order to strengthen the involvement of the expert communities, Oral-History.Digital is supported by a Scientific Advisory Board. It consits of the following members:
- Stefan Berger (History)
- Bettina Dausien (Educational Research)
- Susanne Freund (Archival Science)
- Sabine Imeri (Anthropology)
- Hubert Knoblauch (Sociology)
- Thomas Schmidt (Linguistics)
Archive partners
We are developing Oral-History.Digital together with the community. With our partners in interview projects, archives and museums, we discuss requirements and work steps. More than 30 institutions have already created archives in the platform, amongst them:
- Archive in House of History / History of the Ruhr Foundation
http://www.isb.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ahgr - Archive of Social Democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
https://www.fes.de/archiv-der-sozialen-demokratie - Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation
https://www.buchenwald.de - Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation
https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de - Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial
https://www.gedenkstaette-flossenbuerg.de - Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies
https://hait.tu-dresden.de - Historical Data Center Saxony-Anhalt
https://www.geschichte.uni-halle.de/struktur/hist-data - LangAge Corpora at Universität Potsdam
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/romanistik-gerstenberg - Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)
https://zzf-potsdam.de - LWL-Museums of Industrial Heritage
www.lwl-industriemuseum.de - Museum Friedland
www.museum-friedland.de - New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation
https://centrumjudaicum.de - Oral History Research Center at Erfurt University
https://www.uni-erfurt.de/forschung/forschen/forschungsprojekte/oral-history-forschungsstelle - Zentralarchiv (Central Archive) at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
https://www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/zentralarchiv
Workshops
Workshops, a working group and open consultation hours are used to present innovations, share experiences and specify requirements.
- First oh.d-Workshop, 21./22.1.2021
- Second oh.d-Workshop, 18./19.11.2021
- Third oh.d-Workshop, 25./26.9.2023
- Consultation hours (infos at mail@oral-history.digital)