  Scholars are yet to make optimal use of Oral History collections. For the
uptake of digital research tools in the daily working practice of researchers,
practices and conventions commonly adhered to in the subfields in the
humanities should be taken into account during development. To this end, in the
Oral History Today project a research tool for exploring Oral History
collections is developed in close collaboration with scholarly researchers.
This paper describes four stages of scholarly research and the first steps
undertaken to incorporate requirements of these stages in a digital research
environment.
