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“OH metadata. Usability, accessibility and interoperability of OH interviews in the digital realm” an open lecture on 4th November by PhD Candidate Maria Vrachliotou at HDSM

Recommended resources:
-The graph tool that I’ve been using is  called “yed online”: https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/ 

-The Oral History Association has a website with rich information on Oral history tools and best practices: https://oralhistory.org/best-practices/ 

-A link to the OHMS website for further details on how it works: https://www.oralhistoryonline.org/ 

-Some detailed information about WarMemoirSampo can be found on the following link: https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/projects/war-memoirs/en/  (All publications of Eero Hyvönen are really enlightening of how LOD, NER and NEL technologies work)

-In the following article you will find how CIDOC CRM is been used in WarSampo, a widerproject that includes WarMemoirSampo with the scope to serve and publish WW2 Linked Open Data on the Semantic Web. Hyvönen, Eero & Heino, Erkki & Leskinen, Petri & Ikkala, Esko & Koho, Mikko & Tamper, Minna & Tuominen, Jouni & Mäkelä, Eetu. (2016). WarSampo Data Service and Semantic Portal for Publishing Linked Open Data About the Second World War History
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303098524_WarSampo_Data_Service_and_Semantic_Portal_for_Publishing_Linked_Open_Data_About_the_Second_World_War_History

-Another publication that might be of interest, is the survey report of the Oral History Metadata Task Force on applied practices in the USA.
https://www.oralhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OHA-MTF-White-Paper_2020.pdf

-This portal “Oral History in the Digital Age”,  provides rich information on digital technologies pertaining to all phases of the oral history process https://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/.


Next Monday, 4th November at 14:25 (CET) PhD Candidate Maria Vrachliotou will give an open talk titled “OH metadata. Usability, accessibility and interoperability of OH interviews in the digital realm”. This event is a part of Voices Unbound: Lecture Series on Digital Oral History convened by TU Darmstadt, University College London, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.

Registration: The event will accommodate a hybrid, online format, with TU Darmstadt students attending the lecture in person and other colleagues joining remotely. In order to secure your spot please navigate to the Eventbrite page.

PhD Candidate Maria Vrachliotou. Image courtesy: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ph7OVa0AAAAJ&hl=el

Since 2004, Maria Vrachliotou worked as an information librarian in an academic library (Central Library of the Hellenic Mediterranean University of Crete in Heraklion-Former Technological Institute of Crete). In 2011 had a slight change of career and started working as a librarian in a Public Library, the Central Public Library of Serres (Northern Greece). At that time she grew fond of Oral History and started an Oral History Pilot Project “The chestbox of estories” http://repository.serrelib.gr/ The main scope was to advocate the role Public Libraries could play, not only in harvesting and preserving OH interviews, but also in granting access to this kind of material. Currently, is a Phd Researcher of the Ionian University, Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology. Field of Interest: Oral History Metadata, Semantic Web, Ontologies. 

The abstract of the talk is as follows:

We will talk bout OH metadata and their role in making stories widely available, accessible and interoperable. Traditional describing methods should find their way towards a more meaningful context thanks to semantic web technologies. Worldwide there have already been some interesting initiatives moving beyond traditional cataloguing and description, but how these could communicate with each other? Could ontologies play their part in making OH interviews meaningful, accessible and useful around the world? We will discuss some examples and ontological models. The role of IT and Information professionals in shaping a viable future for OH collections.


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