Research Portals

Turn your archive into a place people can actually explore.

A custom-branded, hosted archive site you build inside TheirStory in a few minutes. Turn your archive into a conversation, grounded entirely in your collection and private by design.

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What was Bunker Hill like before it was rebuilt?

Discover

Residents describe Bunker Hill as a dense neighborhood of Victorian rooming houses and funicular railways, largely cleared during 1960s redevelopment.

12:04 M. Ruiz, 19983:41 Angels Flight oral history

Discover: ask a question, get a real answer

Ask a question in everyday language and get back answers that cite the exact clips they came from. Have a conversation with your collection.

✓Plain-language Q&A across the whole collection

✓A private LLM focused only on your content, never sent outside your portal

✓Citations with all responses; one click to the video

✓Citable as primary source material

Explore the collection more than one way

Different questions need different views. Open the portal to a set of collections, sit with one interview end to end, or skim the Indexes tab to see everywhere a phrase surfaces across an entire project at a glance.

✓Any story opens in full, transcript synced to the media

✓Indexes: search a phrase and see every instance across a project at once

✓Narrow to a single collection, then jump straight to any hit

✓Collaborate with the Zotero integration

Every name, place, and event, tagged automatically

Named entity recognition reads each story and tags the people, places, dates, organizations, and events inside it. That gives visitors a second way through the collection, one that follows subjects rather than words.

✓Entities tagged by category

✓Open one entity to see everywhere it appears, in a story and across the project

✓Filter a project by category, then by any entity inside it

✓Every entity hit lands on the exact moment it's mentioned

Public or private, your choice

Publish a community-facing archive the press and the public can explore, or keep a collection private for internal or donor-restricted use.

✓Public portals for community-facing archives

✓Private portals for internal or restricted collections

✓Per-story publish and update controls

Set it up yourself, no developer required

Portals are built into the platform, so there is nothing to install and nothing to develop. Choose which collections appear, arrange how they are presented, and match your own logo, color, and other branding. Adding or removing a story is a click, and it is live within minutes.

✓Your logo, colors, and branding, on your own subdomain

✓Add, remove, and reorder content yourself, live in minutes

✓No build project, no engineering ticket, no maintenance

✓WCAG 2.1 AA Certified by default

See your own collection inside a portal.

Portals are available as an add-on to your existing TheirStory account.