The living archive
for your institution.
Purpose-built for libraries, museums, universities, and cultural organisations. The same interview engine that captures personal memoirs — scaled for institutional collection workflows, archival standards, and long-term preservation.
Who uses it
Collect living histories from community members. Build a searchable, permanent archive with standardised metadata — EAD, Dublin Core, MARC-compatible exports.
Capture donor stories, artefact provenance narratives, and community memory alongside exhibitions. Audio auto-syncs to exhibit records.
Longitudinal interview research, oral history methodology courses, primary source collection for dissertations. IRB-ready consent capture built in.
Pre-interview research sessions, background material collection, source relationship building. Feeds directly into script and chapter structure.
Preserve neighbourhood stories, immigrant family histories, faith community narratives. Multiple contributors, shared archive, collective timeline.
Veterans oral history programmes, elected official legacy records, civil servant exit interviews. Permanent, auditable, exportable.
Platform capabilities
Any number of interviewers can conduct sessions under one institutional account. Centrally searchable, individually owned.
Digital consent forms with e-signature, timestamp, and IP logged at the point of interview. IRB-compatible export available.
EAD XML, Dublin Core JSON, MARC fields, PDF transcript, MP3 audio — all downloadable per record or in batch.
Map your institution's subject headings to interview entities. Build a thesaurus from existing collections.
People, places, events, and organisations extracted from every interview and linked across the collection. Discover connections invisible in individual transcripts.
Every record gets a permanent, citable URL. Embed in finding aids. Link from OPAC or collections management systems.
Records default to private. Selectively publish to a public-facing browse page — or keep the entire archive embargoed.
Full REST API for integration with Omeka, Fedora, Islandora, or any collections management system. Webhooks for ingest events.
Archival standards
The Living Record is designed to meet the data requirements of the Oral History Association (OHA) Best Practices, SAA Core Values, and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Institutional pricing
- —Core interview engine
- —Archival exports
- —Public browse page
- —Email support
- —Everything in Small
- —API access
- —Entity graph
- —Consent capture
- —Priority support
- —Everything in Standard
- —Custom export formats
- —SSO / SAML
- —Dedicated onboarding
- —SLA
We work closely with institutions to configure the platform for your specific archival standards and workflow. Demos include a live interview session and a walkthrough of export formats relevant to your collections management system.
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