At 12:17 PM 7/5/2006, Maynard S. Clark wrote:
I guess my question at present relates to how we "empower"
volunteers to do this kind of work in a distributed way.
This is always a challenge. A model might be the Shoah Foundation (Google
it) started by Steven Spielberg in conjunction with Shindler's List.
Here, volunteers went out to all corners of the world and brought back
video interviews. The urgency was, of course, that people with first-hand
knowledge were aging and few would survive another decade or
three.
One of the technical challenges is maintaining quality -- and then
preserving the archive.
Two sites you didn't mention are Andy Kolovos's site at the Vermont
Folklife Center about recording Oral History, an Oral History blog that a
friend of mine just started, and (of course) my Web site for some of the
technical arcanities of media formats, mostly tape.
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/res_audioequip.htm
http://familyoralhistory.us/
http://www.richardhess.com/tape/ and especially the
"blog" portion
http://www.richardhess.com/notes/
Hope this helps a bit.
Cheers,
Richard
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