Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute will digitize interviews from its oral history collections to allow broader access to the public and encourage scholarship and new interpretations of the Civil Rights Movement. A digital archivist will be responsible for overall collections metadata and authority control, quality control, and other duties related to the project. The museum will also work with a leading provider of audio and moving image preservation digitization with extensive experience creating digital assets for use in managed infrastructures and expertise in handling and reformatting unique oral history collections. Digitized content will be uploaded and assets will be tagged with embedded keywords and metadata. The content will be searchable by keyword and available on the museum website and in its computer resource gallery, and on other sites such as Alabama Mosaic and the University of Georgia's Civil Rights Digital Library. The project will enhance intellectual control of the collection while preserving the materials through transfer to current digital formats.