600 maestri raccontano la loro vita professionale in video: un progetto di (fully searchable) open data.

Oral History – as in the collection, storage and interpretation of personal accounts – already provided interesting insights to the renovation of school practices, even though this effect is probably still limited.The project presented here is based on the experience of the “Memorie di Scuola” website (https://memoriediscuola.it), a collection of more than 600 interviews to teachers about their professional history. Using Open Source software and YouTube APIs, the authors were able to create a video repository where: 1) hundreds of hours of video interviews to teachers are organized and made accessible online for free, following a “public history” approach; 2) video content is fully searchable thanks to the use of automatic transcription and of a synchronization script.