Hello all @Alex @Mariajobrador @mperpinan @MercePB
I summarise what was told in the Memory Friday Meeting held on 30-4-2025.
An announcement about oral history:
A new feature is included for oral history projects: automatic transcription is now included. There was a concern about data protection when using systems where you have to send your content to a server. This solution is made in the client, so there is no need to send any data to an unknown server. The system has a good success rate, although it needs to be reviewed. At this moment it works only in Chrome and you need its version 137.
Thesauri:
There is an issue concerning how to call a fragment of some thesaurus. Now this can be done, but even if we share the structure, the ID of each term of the thesaurus is different for each institution (said plainly: Navarra has different ID numbers than Memoria in Catalonia). And this is good.But we have the same concerns and needs even though we have different ID numbers. The first proposal in order to be able to call a fragment of a thesaurus is using TIPOLOGY. If we agree, the different institutions have to unify typology (not thesaurus) to facilitate this kind of filter. If we consider typologies as a transversal feature, we could apply the filter of the thesaurus using them, and for all of us, it will behave in the same way. This is one way to solve this problem. Another way is to synchronise thesauri and have a shared thesaurus, but we foresee legal difficulties. We agreed that we have to think more about it before we take a course of action.
Biographic milestones as EVENTS
We started explaining the we have seen that entities may have themselves also biographic milestones. Change of names or places, etc.
We could consider that a biographic milestone is in fact an EVENT that may imply several people and some institutions involved. As an example we said the “revuelta de las cocacolas”.
If we consider that the event exists by himself then is the event that call the people and the entities and not as we have in right now: It is the people that calls the biographic milestone. This is a change of perspective.
We agreed that Biographic milestones, as they are right now, are not the solution because they are not flexible enough, but we also agreed that we have to find a way similar as we are working right now (as an example we spoke about IRPF programs where you fill a form and that information “goes” to several fields that are “transparent” for the user.
We have to develop these vital situations.
We spoke also about maps and the importance of them in biographic milestones. As they are, they have some limitations for showing movements that are important for memory projects.
Maybe some events have specific characteristics not shared with others and we have no contemplate this, too. We propose also to make simplified events that call other parts of the projects.
This is a complex issue that could be an enormous change in the way we work and boost the information we treat. We have to fragment this huge change to make it more manageable.
And that was, more or less, all we talk about. Feel free to add something if I have forgotten it!
See you in the next meeting.
