“Re-Imagining Indexing” Workshop Plans for Future of Indexing

Thu, 10/20/2016 - 5:00pm
USC Shoah Foundation staff came together last month for a weeklong discussion about how to update its intricate process of indexing each new testimony added to the Visual History Archive.
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Over 800 New Indexing Terms to be Added to Visual History Archive Thesaurus

Fri, 08/26/2016 - 5:00pm
A team of USC Shoah Foundation researchers has identified over 800 new indexing terms that will be added to the Visual History Archive when it undergoes its next big update in the coming weeks.
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Staff Begin Indexing New Guatemalan Testimonies

Tue, 04/26/2016 - 5:00pm
As the Institute’s partner Fundacion de Antropologia Forense de Guatemala (FAFG) records testimonies of survivors of the genocide in Guatemala, it has begun sending the first few testimony videos back to USC Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles, where staff are beginning to index them – the first step toward their eventual integration into the Visual History Archive and IWitness.
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Armenian Scholar Donates Four-Volume Research Book to USC Shoah Foundation

Fri, 01/29/2016 - 5:00pm
“The Extermination of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire” will be used by scholars and and researchers currently indexing testimonies of Armenian Genocide survivors.
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Indexing Software Developed for “Group Testimonies”

Tue, 01/19/2016 - 5:00pm
The latest, most significant update to the Visual History Archive’s indexing software since 2008 addresses the growing need for a way to index testimonies with more than one survivor.
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Indexing Terms for Emotions Created for JFCS Collection

Thu, 08/13/2015 - 5:00pm
The psychological focus of the testimonies in the Institute's new collection from Jewish Family and Children's Services (JFCS) of San Francisco meant that a new set of indexing terms had to be researched and developed.
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Indexers Begin Training for Preserving the Legacy’s Canadian Collections

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 5:00pm
With the arrival of new testimonies and indexers, USC Shoah Foundation is advancing to the next stage of its Preserving the Legacy initiative.
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USC Shoah Foundation Announces ‘Preserving the Legacy’ Initiative

Fri, 12/19/2014 - 5:00pm
The initiative will use the Institute’s state-of-the-art infrastructure to digitize, index and integrate videotaped Holocaust testimony taken by other organizations around the world into the Visual History Archive.
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Indexing Training Session for New Holocaust Collection and Aegis Trust Rwanda Begins Jan. 21

Thu, 01/09/2014 - 4:14pm

USC Shoah Foundation’s research department will host seven new Holocaust indexers and three Aegis Trust Rwanda staff members this month for a training session on indexing Holocaust and Rwandan testimonies.

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Rwandan Testimonies Add 500 New Terms to Visual History Archive’s Thesaurus

Thu, 06/20/2013 - 5:58pm

Testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide added to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive have resulted in 500 new search terms for the archive’s indexing system.

The index is a controlled vocabulary of more than 50,000 terms that make up the Shoah Foundation’s Thesaurus and that allow detailed searching of the testimonies in the archive.

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