“Can Oral History Data be FAIR?” an open online lecture by Dr. Norah Karrouche on 2 December
Dr. Norah Karrouche (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) gives an open lecture ‘Can oral history data be FAIR? Lessons learnt from building a digital infrastructure for oral history in the Netherlands‘ next Monday, 2 December at 14:25 (CET), as a part of the Voices Unbound: Lecture Series on Digital Oral History. A lecture series co-organised by TU Darmstadt, University College London, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.
To attend online registration is required, please navigate to Evenbrite page to secure your spot.

Norah Karrouche is an assistant professor of global history at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and has worked as an oral historian in CLARIAH, the Dutch Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, since 2015.
The abstract of the talk is as follows:
Oral historians are increasingly recognizing the benefits of making their interviews available as datasets and ensuring they are ‘FAIR’ (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). This practice encourages reuse by researchers, museums, community archives, and others. However, digitization also brings several key methodological debates in oral history into focus, including the necessity of transcripts, the intersubjective nature of oral history, and ethical concerns about publishing. In addition, digitization has blurred notions of ‘research data’ and ‘heritage data’, and of ‘academic’ and ‘non-academic’ (or community) oral history.
In this talk, I will explore the CLARIAH Media Suite and asses how various methodological issues in oral history have complicated its use, including informed consent, transcription, thesauri and metadata standards. The CLARIAH Media Suite is designed to provide researchers with access to (cultural heritage) data in the Netherlands, including oral history datasets. It allows users to search and visualize large volumes of oral history data, and compile and annotate oral history corpora in a personal digital workspace. The Media Suite also features tools for research such as speech recognition and text mining.
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