Forecast 2010: Presentation of Educational Material, Advancement of Platform and Fair Presence
The focus of the project "Forced Labor1939-1945" in 2010 will be on the completion of the work on teaching and learning material for use in schools education in Germany. Furthermore the archive platform will be enhanced and expanded by new interesting aspect through the continuous scholarly translation and indexing of the interviews.
News from Jan 15, 2010
Focus on educational work
A public presentation of the new educational materials is scheduled for May 2010. Already in March the team will present preliminary versions of the multimedia productions at the education fair “didacta" (16.-20.3. in Cologne) in conjunction with the team of the project "Witnesses of the Shoah. The Visual History Archive in School Education". The educational material being completed and distributed by mid 2010 will include the following:
- A video-DVD with five eyewitness portraits and two background films
- A learning software about the topic of forced labor with video, interactive tasks as well as maps and a dictionary about Nazi forced labor.
- A teachers booklet with recommendations for the use of the digital materials as well as didactical suggestions
Advancement of the archive platform and indexing of the interviews
Research options will be enhanced in the archive platform. The pinpoint search even within a specific interview will make possible a better and more exact research. The scholarly indexing thereby plays an important role for the extension of search options in terms of content. The following new search options will be gradually implemented in 2010:
- Full-text search through transcripts and translations of the interviews right within the interviews
- Search via existing categories in combination with full-text search
- Sophisticated indexes will help to capture the course of an individual interview and enable navigation within the interviews
Translations into German and continuing scholarly exploration of the interviews will be increased in 2010. By the end of 2010 a minimum of 200 interviews should be fully indexed; by the end of March at least 100 of them should be searchable with the new functionalities.
Portal/web presence
The open access internet portal (as an addition to the password protected digital archive with the 600 interviews in full length) will perspectively offer new features in 2010:
- Expert interviews about oral history, forced labor, etc.
- Expansion of the educational aspects by suggesting classroom work methods for working with a digital archive
- integration of teacher and student materials into the Nazi forced labor database for educational materials