Getting Started Telling oral history All about Oral history

Discover what is involved in setting up an oral history project in this handy video. Learn what oral history is, how to start a project, capture stories, and archive them.

Practical

What practical solutions are there, how can I get started?

+How do I prepare an interview technically?

Some tips for the (technical) preparation of the interview

+How can I transcribe?

There are several specialised tools for manual digital transcription.

+Forms – consent & ownership?

This page contains sample forms that can be used in oral history projects.

+Automatic speech recognition in transcription?

Automatic Speech Recognition, or ASR, is software that automatically converts recordings of spoken word into text.

+How to do a good interview?

For a good oral history interview, the following aspects are important:

Ways of approaching possible persons to interview
Good communication about the
research questions and the project…

+What are metadata?

Metadata is essential for access to oral history collections and for the reuse of a collection’s source material.

+Send Large Files

How can I send large files?

Tools

Which tools can I use for:

+Transcription tools

An overview of free tools that help with transcribing

+How can I record an interview with ZOOM?

In modern video conferencing software such as ZOOM, it is fairly easy to change the audio setting so that each speaker can be recorded on a separate channel.

+Search and analysis tools

+Recording video: how do you do it?

This page deals with the technical side of recording video with a tripod video camera.

Courses / trainings

What courses / trainings are there?

+Introductory course to Oral History

The Sprekende geschiedenis Hub regularly offers an online introductory course in oral history.

+Oral history course – Erfgoed Gelderland

The course introduces you to oral history interview technique. With practical exercises, you will learn how to prepare, conduct and record an interview.

+Oral History & Biography

dr. N.F.F. Karrouche

Period: P3

For this course, you must sign in yourself. Registration and deregistration deadlines can be found at VU.nl

+UvA Master’s Course: Oral History and Artwork Life Stories

The module Oral History and Artwork Life Stories aims to enable participants to make critical use of oral history as a research method in cultural heritage research.

+Oral History trainings – Annegriet Wietsma

A practical training course in Oral History Interview Techniques. Two-day workshop full of examples, illustrations, exercises and feedback.

+Customized Oral History Course – BMP

Foundation BMP

Saskia Moerbeek

Frank von Meijenfeldt

Mila Lemmens

+Internship – NLVI Expertise Centre

Dutch Veterans Institute
Expertise centre

Jeoffrey van Woensel

Marjolein van der Werf

+Elective course Oral History – UvA

University of Amsterdam

Faculty of Humanities

Laura van Hasselt

+Methodology Oral History – RUG

University of Groningen

Faculty of Arts

Barbara Henkes