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Oral Histories metadata: Usability, accessibility and interoperability...
04 November 2024, 1:25 pm–2:45 pm
... of OH interviews in the digital realm. We are pleased to welcome Maria Vrachliotou (Ionian University) for this 'Voices Unbound?' seminar.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Marco Humbel, UCLDH Associate Director (ECR)
Voices Unbound? is a new seminar series exploring new and/or possible directions in digital and experimental oral history (OH).
In this seminar, Maria Vrachliotou will talk about OH metadata and their role in making stories widely available, accessible and interoperable. Traditional describing methods should find their way towards a more meaningful context thanks to semantic web technologies. Worldwide there have already been some interesting initiatives moving beyond traditional cataloguing and description, but how these could communicate with each other? Could ontologies play their part in making OH interviews meaningful, accessible and useful around the world? We will discuss some examples and ontological models. The role of IT and Information professionals in shaping a viable future for OH collections.
All welcome to join this online seminar. Please register to receive the joining details: https://voices-unbound.eventbrite.co.uk
Voices Unbound? is co-organised by TU Darmstadt, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. The series is convened by Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt), Andrew Flinn, Andreas Vlachidis, and Marco Humbel (UCL), Shih-Pei Chen (Max Planck Institute), and Gerben Zaagsma (C²DH), offering an important way of keeping up to date with the methodological and theoretical state of the art in digital oral history. Speakers will present work on recent technological developments that may hold promise for digital oral history. In this way, the seminar series appeals to (digital) oral historians, digital humanists and scholars of the history of information, memory and knowledge systems.
About the Speaker
Maria Vrachliotou
PhD Researcher at Ionian University, Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology
In 2004, Maria Vrachliotou started working as an information librarian in an academic library (Central Library of the Hellenic Mediterranean University of Crete in Heraklion-Former Technological Institute of Crete). In 2011 she had a slight change of career and started working as a librarian in a Public Library, the Central Public Library of Serres (Northern Greece). At that time she grew fond of Oral History and started an Oral History Pilot Project “The chestbox of estories” http://repository.serrelib.gr/. The main scope was to advocate the role Public Libraries could play, not only in harvesting and preserving OH interviews, but also in granting access to this kind of material. Currently, she is a PhD Researcher at the Ionian University, Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology. Field of Interest: Oral History Metadata, Semantic Web, Ontologies.