Hello Christie,
We at the College Park Aviation Museum are in a similar situation. We don't have a ton of oral histories, but we do have some. We store it as basic files. We are lucky to have a large network drive and I just have the oral histories saved in a dedicated folder, clearly marked. I also have physical files for transcripts (if we have them), appropriate paperwork, and finding aides.
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Luke Perez
Curator of Collections
College Park Aviation Museum
College Park MD
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-15-2023 12:16 PM
From: Christie Jovanovic
Subject: Oral History Interviews
Hi All,
I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions on the best way to house oral history interviews digitally? We have a (relatively) small collection of interviews done in the 90s through to present day, with the older originals being beta and VHS and the more recent ones born digital. Some of the VHS/beta interviews have been converted into a digital format (though the files are quite large). We have a CMS for the Museum's collection, but I'm unsure whether it is the best place to also house the digitals for the testimony. Our CMS doesn't really lend itself to accessing audio/video files easily, and also some of the files are quite large, im wondering if they need their own system or software to live on (and if there are suggestions as to the best route to go here).
Thanks!
Christie
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