When starting an Oral History Project there are a few steps you should consider before beginning in order to ensure the long-term access of your project. A consultation with the Digital Scholarship and Technology Services Department (DS&T) is always a great first move towards success. DS&T can provide guidance on creating effective release forms, comprehensive metadata for online access, and workflows for digital preservation submission.  In the past, a major pitfall of oral history projects has been the lack of release forms, making it difficult to publish oral histories in the Digital Library or elsewhere. In addition, the lack of data for each oral history session in a format that…

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