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Building an open oral archive : the experience of the Grammo-foni (Gra.fo) project| old_uid | 15231 |
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| title | Building an open oral archive : the experience of the Grammo-foni (Gra.fo) project |
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| start_date | 2018/01/22 |
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| schedule | 14h-17h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Oral archives collected by professional scholars and ordinary people interested in dialects and traditions are a precious resource for various fields of study (from linguistics to anthropology, from sociology to history and politics, etc.) and may contain documents that could be labelled as products of intangible cultural heritage, thus deserving safeguarding.
Grammo-foni. Le soffitte della voce (Gra.fo), a two-year project jointly conducted by Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Siena (Regione Toscana PAR FAS 2007-13), discovered, digitised, cataloged and disseminated via a web portal nearly 3000 hours of speech recordings stemming from around 30 oral archives collected by scholars and amateurs in the Tuscan territory. Having preserved such a significant collection of oral documents (e.g. oral biographies, ethno-texts, linguistic questionnaires, oral literature), Gra.fo constitutes a precious repository of Tuscan memory and provides a first-hand documentation of Tuscan language varieties from the early 1960s to the present time.
In the talk, the Gra.fo project will be described in all its stages, which involve :
fostering the level of awareness on the importance of preserving this valuable cultural heritage product ;
contacting the oral recordings’ owners and co-signing legal agreements for the temporary borrowing of the recordings and the accompanying materials ;
collecting and digitizing the recordings and the accompanying material ;
cataloging and partially transcribing the oral documents ;
implementing the downloadable online catalog http://grafo.sns.it/, an open-ended repository of oral texts which, as yet, have been known to a very limited number of possible users.
Some problematic issues related to the treatment of oral archives will also be discussed, together with the proposed solutions. These concern the carrier / document relation, the treatment of confidential information, and the issue of authorship and ownership with relation to a digital oral archive created through the digitisation of several analogue archives. |
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| responsibles | Détrie, Pélissier |
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