The History of Medicine Division of the US’ National Library of Medicine recently added to its online oral history content 130 interviews, over 6,800 pages of transcripts and 50 hours of audio content, along with five new special collections. These additions more than double the number of interviews, and increases by 50 percent the number of pages of transcripts available.
The content may be accessed at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/oh.html, as part of the growing electronic texts of the Library's Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program.
As with the initial release, the materials include digital editions of transcripts, and audio content when feasible. Users can browse the interviews by title, interviewee name and subject. Full-text searching is available across all collections, across each collection and within each transcript.
The five new collections include the Albert Szent-Györgyi Oral History Collection, the James W. Papez Oral History Collection, the NIMH Oral History Collection, National Information Center on Health Services Research Oral Histories, and the Stephen Strickland NIH Extramural Program Oral History Collection.
Transcripts are marked up following the Text Encoding Initiative's (TEI) XML encoding level 1 parameters. Audio content is delivered via a custom Flash player and is downloadable as an MP3. Archival WAV files are available upon request.
