University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA 52242-1320)
Jennifer K. Sherer (Project Director: July 2017 to January 2022)
PW-259083-18
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$195,000 (approved)
$195,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2018 – 6/30/2021
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Indexing the Iowa Labor History Oral Project
Transcription
of 363 oral history interviews from the Iowa Labor History Oral Project and
completion of a comprehensive digital index.
Indexing the Iowa Labor History Oral Project is a two-year
initiative to transcribe and index oral history interviews from the Iowa Labor
History Oral Project, an over forty-year-old statewide oral history
collaboration that has to date produced more than one thousand audio interviews
with Iowa workers. The grant will fund the transcription and auditing of 363
interviews and the creation of individual (transcript-level) indexes for 326 of
these same 363 (excluding those interviews without releases). The grant will
also provide for the digitization of an existing print index to over 750
interviews and integrate the 326 new interview indexes to create a complete and
expandable ILHOP Digital Index (IDI). Building off an ongoing digitization
initiative funded by the National Historical Preservation and Records
Commission (NHPRC), the grant will set the stage for future growth,
dissemination, and access opportunities for one of the most important resources
in twentieth-century Midwestern history.
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