The interview portal Oral-History.Digital has been online since September 2023. Since then, it has continued to develop in content and technology. As part of a second DFG funding phase, together with our project and archive partners we were able to gain more collections, interviews and users, create new services and improve functionalities, and establish further interfaces and collaborations. At the same time, we face new challenges, which we are addressing with further initiatives.

These developments were presented, discussed and celebrated at a conference in Berlin on 11 June 2026. The keynote was given by Alessandro Portelli. Around 70 people attended in the hall, and around 30 followed the conference via live stream.

A recording of the conference contributions (partly in German, partly in English) is available under Recording.

oh.d26 - Conference of the Interview Portal "Oral-History.Digital"

• Thursday, 11 June 2026, 2 – 9 pm
• Freie Universität Berlin, Lecture Hall B in the Henry Ford Building, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem 
• Programme
• Recording
• Contact: mail@oral-history.digital 

Workshop "Shaping Access, Preserving Protection"

• On the following day, the projects Oral-History.Digital and Open.Oral-History warmly invited all interested project and archive partners to jointly reflect on the ethical questions and challenges arising in the (digital) provision of oral history interviews. Information on the workshop on 12 June 2026
• Contact: igb@fernuni-hagen.de