Barriers and opportunities in using oral history archives as data resources
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Opening keynote presentation from Jakub Mlynář from the Centre for Visual History Malach in Prague at the event "Exploring Spoken Word Data in Oral History Archives", held at the e-Research Centre, University of Oxford on 18-19 April 2016, organized by Martin Wynne as part of the CLARIN-PLUS project (http://www.clarin.eu).
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Interest has grown in recent years in in oral history along with the increased popularity of the personal narrative. Oral history can be defined as the practice of eliciting people’s personal memory of lived experiences that are absent in written archives, and documenting them with a recording device with the purpose of turning the interviews into historical sources.
The ‘digital turn’ has had an enormous impact on this archival practice. Currently much unique and valuable spoken...
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