Background

Hello, my name is Andrew Weymouth and I work at the University of Idaho Library as the Digital Initiatives Librarian in the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL) department. My work generally consists of creating and maintaining our digital collections, helping to rethink processes and introducing new digital scholarship tools to the department.

Established in 2008, the CDIL maintains over 130 digital collections built from the open-source frameworks CollectionBuilder and Oral History as Data (OHD). The latter enables researchers to explore oral history collections through customized subject tags created by the transcriber depending on the recording’s content and themes.

This project was initially inspired by discovering gaps in our oral history transcripts following a data migration over the winter of 2023. Because of the volume of the material that needed generating, it was worthwhile to rethink workflows for overall efficiency and accuracy.