At 12:17 PM 7/5/2006, Maynard S. Clark wrote:
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>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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