Conference article

This paper presents the digital interview collections available at Freie Universität Berlin, focus-ing on the online archive Forced Labor 1939-1945, and discusses the digital perspectives of curating and analyzing oral history collections. The digital curation of interview collections fa-ces a number of problems like standards interoperability or privacy protection, but also chances built on progress in automatic speech recognition. Digital archives enhance the possibility of comparative studies. A pilot study based on two interviews from the Berlin collections, high-lights differences in narrative performativity, in dialogical interaction, and in multilingualism. Finally, the paper looks at perspectives of interdisciplinary cooperation with CLARIN projects and at the challenges of cross-collection search and de-contextualization.

Audiovisual narrative data, Oral history, Research environment