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Oral History Interviews
MD Anderson’s Historical Resources Center and the oral history project [OHP] were started in the late nineties to preserve the institution’s history and collect some of the background that historian James Olsen, PhD needed to write Making Cancer History .
Documenting the past produces information relevant to understanding the institution’s present and future; however the value of the collection can only be realized by putting this rich resource to use for that purpose.
The goal of the oral history project is to collect interviews with institution builders and leaders, create easy access to the collections and mechanisms for finding content, and explore ways to put the collection to use.
Our oral history project is now unique in the world. History doesn’t just happen in the past. History is being made now. Therefore we interview those individuals who can comment on how MD Anderson finds its way through challenges and into the future.
Mapping Content:
‘Navigation Materials’
The Navigation Materials include a series of increasingly detailed summaries of content that provide an easy, Wikipedia-style entrée into an interview.
Interview Profile:
General description of interview subject and content
Table of Contents:
List of chapter titles and chapter codes to describe general content
Chapter Summaries with codes:
Abstracts of each chapter. A list of codes give more information about the chapter’s focus.
Transcript:
The entire interview conversation is presented with chapter divisions, codes, and time stamps.
A Two-Tier Coding System to Identify Content
Tier 1:
Each chapter has a Chapter Code that identifies the main focus of the conversation.
Tier 2:
Each chapter also has multiple Story Codes that further describe specific topics touched on within the conversation.
The coding system can be used:
- As a description of the content in a chapter
- As a search tool when using OpenWorks @ MD Anderson
- As a search tool you are working with text files (Navigation Materials, transcript). Enter a code in the Find box in Word.