Arhivski vjesnik, No. 45, 2002.
Stručni rad
Archival Science and Oral History
Mirjana Cupek Hamill
Sažetak
In the article the author tries to explain the idea of oral history – oraI sources and the place and value they have for historical, culture and social research in the contemporary world. Her interest is specifically the practical and theoretical questions that the creation and collection of oral sources places before archives and archival science. The specific nature of such sources (audio and/or audio- visual tapes on which testimonies are recorded) requires special procedures in every stage of their handling and processing from acquisition to description and access. In particular, in order to facilitate their access and use, they have to be transcribed. This requires a lot of archivists' time and effort. In addition, in regard to their preservation and due to rapid technological change, archives are forced into constant recopying of such documents in a common contemporary format, since it is hardly possible to maintain complete play-back and copying equipment for all obsolete media. Further, there are specific legal problems regarding their publishing (copyright), as the ownership of a piece of testimony can be claimed by several partners involved in its creation – interviewer, interviewee, the institution for which the project was founded or, the archives in which the testimony is stored.
The number of archives in which oral history collections are stored (oral history archives or just oral history departments in "ordinary" archives, museums or libraries) is increasing and, due to the rapid development of the technical means included in the creation of oral sources, one can expect that the 21st century will be an era of further expansion. Hopefully, Croatian historians and archivists will also take their place in this expansion.
Ključne riječi
oral history; oral sources; oral history archives
Hrčak ID:
9105
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.4.2003.
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