From special collections to classroom projects, TheirStory makes your interviews searchable, answerable, and shareable, with metadata your library can trust.
Library & archives
Make your special collections findable, not just stored
Hours of audio and video become searchable, so researchers can get straight to the moment they need.
Searchable transcripts with speaker labels
Auto-tagging of people, places, and dates
Keep it internal or publish to a Portal
Transcript · Interview 07
Founders Hall6 matches
Interviewer
14:02Where did students gather back then?
M. Alvarez
14:09Mostly the steps of Founders Hall. In the fall of 1974 that was where every meeting started.
Person M. AlvarezPlace Founders HallDate 1974
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Researchers AI
Explore your data like never before, or let others do the same
Conversational search draws only on your collection, so every answer comes with its sources.
"Discover" lets you talk to your data
Citations link straight to the exact clip
Your data is never used to train other models
Ask the collection
How did professors adapt when classes moved online?
AI Answer from 3 interviews
Several faculty describe rebuilding discussion around small breakout groups 1, while others leaned on recorded lectures and office hours by video 2.
1 Interview with a history professor22:40
2 Interview with a biology lecturer08:15
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Students & faculty
Give students a real research experience, start to finish
Students run the whole oral history workflow themselves, from the first recording to a published story.
Record, transcribe, tag, and publish in one place
Hands-on practice with interviewing, metadata, and digital publishing
Easy to run as a class or semester project
HIST 310 · Campus Voices project
Recorded12 interviews
TranscribedSpeaker labels added
TaggedPeople, places, dates
PublishedLive
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Advancement & comms
Gather stories that move the needle and show impact
Gather interviews, then turn them into public-facing stories for alumni, local communities, and the wider public.
Asynchronous, large-scale story capture
Powerful analytical tools help you find the moments that matter
Increase connectedness with stories
Story page
Alumni stories
From Founders Hall to the front of the classroom
A 1980s graduate on the teacher who changed her path.
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Talk to your archive. Ask it questions. Engage with your stories.
Conversational search pulls from your institution’s collection, with citations linking straight to clips.
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From Start to Finish
From first recording to public collection, it all happens in one place. Move faster with tools made for storytelling projects, then host and share your stories without the usual headaches.
Bring your collections to life.
Whether you're a large archive, a small library, or anything in between, TheirStory can help.
