Notes from Feb 14, 2002
Some personal reactions to our discussions:
- Intellectual property rights issues are key factors in any oral
history project. This suggests that we should consider "multiple
reading room" solutions and rights management techniques that can
enforce whatever restrictions individual particpants place on access.
- Although archivists clearly have some interest in oral history,
the centrality of oral history to the mission of many archival
institutions is open to question. Perhaps the most natural "home" for
oral history is as a special collection.
- Project Jukebox at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks has a
long heratige of applying technology to improve access to oral
history. Perhaps we might invite William Schneider to join us by
teleconference for a session later in the semester.
- A scan of WorldCat by Joanne turned up relatively little
catalogued oral history. It seems that 10 years later, the key idea
proposed in the article has not been widely adopted. On the other
hand, the SAA did issue cataloging standards for oral history in 1995,
so perhaps there was some effect.
- The Brewster report identified a couple of Holocaust oral
history collections with a Web presence that we should check out.
Doug Oard
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