ORAL-AI: High Efficacy Content Representation and User Engagement of Oral Digital Collections with Multimodal LLMs", 2026–2029. Project Overview The University of North Texas, in collaboration with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, seeks $490,397 for a 3-year Applied Research grant project that aims to expand meaningful public access to large-scale oral history collections by developing and evaluating a responsible, privacy-aware multimodal AI framework that suppor