MeDoraH

Building upon Hidden Histories' foundational work, MeDoraH represents an innovative advancement in digital humanities research methodology. This collaborative venture between University College London and TU Darmstadt introduces cutting-edge semantic web technologies and digital methods to oral history research. MeDoraH enriches the existing Hidden Histories interview corpus by incorporating ten new German-language interviews, broadening our understanding beyond the Anglophone world. The project pioneers a novel methodological framework combining traditional oral history approaches with advanced computational techniques, enabled by a comprehensive knowledge graph and specialized ontologies. Through innovative natural language processing across English and German sources, MeDoraH creates structured representations of oral history interviews adhering to FAIR data principles. This technical infrastructure supports sophisticated analyses while preserving the nuanced nature of oral history research. Our interactive portal enables researchers, digital humanists, and oral historians to explore this enhanced interview corpus, facilitating novel investigations into the formation and evolution of digital humanities as a field. Project outputs include semantically enriched interview transcriptions, a pioneering oral history ontology, and new methodological frameworks for digital oral history research.