Digitization
SPOHP is working with the UF Digital Library Center and the Florida Center for Library Automation to produce a digital catalog of its archive. The project has three motives:
- Allow interviews to be catalogued online, making the collection accessible and searchable from anywhere in the world.
- Preserve irreplaceable interviews, previously recorded on degrading, outmoded media.
- Permit interviews to be linked with complementary archival holdings at the University of Florida, resulting in unique and mutually reinforcing sets of primary sources on a broad range of historical topics.
This project will rescue historical materials available nowhere else, while providing a wider audience with vastly improved access to these resources. This new technology will also allow the UF Libraries to include audio and video clips in our collection.
Caleb and Michele Grimes, UF graduates, have generously provided $25,000 to support our digitization project. We are grateful for their gift.
Although we have scanned more than 30,000 pages of interview transcripts, the Digital Library staff continues to work on this time-consuming project, including Lourdes FinoSanchez, who edits them through "text mark-up" in the Digital Library office. We went "live" in Fall 2006 with a majority of our interviews, but will continue to work with the Digital Library to complete this online collection.
This is an important step forward for our program. Read "The Importance of Digitizing Oral Histories", (PDF) by Deborah Hendrix.
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