Preservation, Annotation, and Dissemination of a Digital Video Collection of Yiddish in Eastern Europe

FAIN: PW-50350-09

Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)
Jeffrey Veidlinger (Project Director: August 2008 to August 2012)

The preservation, annotation, and improved access to a digital video collection of approximately 700 hours of oral history interviews with Yiddish speakers in Eastern Europe.

This grant will provide funds to preserve, annotate and provide access to a digital video collection of approximately 700 hours of ethnographic, linguistic and oral history interviews with Yiddish-speakers in Eastern Europe conducted since 2002. The collection will be maintained by Indiana University's Archives of Traditional Music, annotated with the EVIA Digital Archive Project Annotator's Workshop and physically stored at Indiana University's Mass Data Storage Services.