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

Jessee, Erin and Zembrzycki, Stacey and High, Steven (2011) Stories matter : conceptual challenges in the development of oral history database building software. Forum : Qualitative Social Research, 12 (1). ISSN 1438-5627

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Abstract

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.