Stories matter: conceptual challenges in the development of oral history database building software

Erin Jessee; Stacey Zembrzycki; Steven High

Stories matter: conceptual challenges in the development of oral history database building software

Erin Jessee, Stacey Zembrzycki, Steven High

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Stories Matter is new oral history database building software designed by an interdisciplinary team of oral historians and a software engineer affiliated with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It encourages a shift away from transcription, enabling oral historians to continue to interact with their interviews in an efficient manner without compromising the greater life history context of their interviewees. This article addresses some of the conceptual challenges that arose when developing this software.

Original language	English
Number of pages	14
Journal	Forum : Qualitative Social Research
Volume	12
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

oral history
digital storytelling
software development
stories matter
narrative
video-indexing
database building software
computing
orality

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