Fact · Transcription
5minutes between timestamps
An oral history guide from Oregon State University Libraries tells transcribers to add timestamps at five-minute intervals.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Add timestamps at five-minute intervals.”
Describing & Transcribing: Oral History Interviewing Methods, Oregon State University Libraries and Press, Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University LibGuides, n.d., Describing & Transcribing (step list).
Open the original- What it measures
- Five minutes is a practical interval for a long recording. It is a common archive rule, not a fixed standard.
- What it does not show
- One archive's guide. Some funders and archives set their own interval, and that rule takes precedence.