Understand it.

Turn hours of interviews into something you can search, analyze, and talk to.

ORGANIZE & MANAGE

Your archive, finally in order.

Easy file management, and custom metadata to match your organization's standards.

  • Define your own metadata schema, or choose from standards like Dublin Core
  • Speaker labels and auto-tagged people, places and dates
  • Deeds of gift and release forms stored with each story
Interview 12Schema: Dublin Core + customNarrator[Narrator name]Date[Interview date]PlacesAuto · PlacePeopleAuto · PersonAuto · PersonProgramYour custom fieldFilesdeed-of-gift.pdf, release-form.pdf
THEMESFamilyWorkMigrationCommunity+ New theme
EXCERPTS · FAMILY“My grandmother kept every letter…”▶ Interview 4 · 22:10“Sunday dinners were where we heard it all…”▶ Interview 9 · 41:58“We were the first in the family to…”▶ Interview 12 · 08:47
THEMATIC ANALYSIS & QUALITATIVE CODING

See the patterns across every interview.

Thematic analysis surfaces the recurring themes across a collection, and gives you the qualitative coding tools to dive deep.

  • Themes generated across a whole collection
  • Manual or assisted qualitative coding tools
  • Create your own themes and add excerpts by hand
SEARCH & ASK

Ask your archive anything.

Discover your archive: ask a question in plain language and get an answer drawn from your own interviews, with citations that link straight to the clips.

  • Talk to your archive to explore like never before
  • Every answer cites the clips it came from
  • Your data is never used to train other models
DiscoverWhat did people say about the neighborhood before the highway came through?
Narrators remember a close-knit neighborhood where most families knew each other, and several describe how the construction split it in two.▶ Interview 3 · 11:20▶ Interview 8 · 36:04▶ Interview 15 · 02:51
Ask a follow-up…
“TheirStory greatly simplified the process of finding and generating clips.”
Jasper Collier · Humanities DC

Tools to manage and explore your archive

01Metadata you've addedDescriptions and tags follow the story wherever it goes.
02Themes you've builtReady-made threads for exhibits, reports and portals.
03Moments you've foundThe clips behind every answer, one step from sharing.
04Ready to publishShare it with the world. See phase 3 →
← PHASE 01Collect it.NEXT · PHASE 03Publish it.→

Bring your collections to life.

Whether you're a large archive, a small library, or anything in between, TheirStory can help.