Supporting access to large digital oral history archives

  • Authors:
  • Samuel Gustman;Dagobert Soergel;Douglas Oard;William Byrne;Michael Picheny;Bhuvana Ramabhadran;Douglas Greenberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles, CA;University of Maryland;University of Maryland;Johns Hopkins University;IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory;IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory;Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper describes our experience with the creation, indexing, and provision of access to a very large archive of videotaped oral histories - 116,000 hours of digitized interviews in 32 languages from 52,000 survivors, liberators, rescuers, and witnesses of the Nazi Holocaust. It goes on to identify a set of critical research issues that must be addressed if we are to provide full and detailed access to collections of this size: issues in user requirement studies, automatic speech recognition, automatic classification, segmentation, summarization, retrieval, and user interfaces. The paper ends by inviting others to discuss use of these materials in their own research.