Oral History and Open Access: Fulfilling the Promise of Democratizing Knowledge

Oral History and Open Access: Fulfilling the Promise of Democratizing Knowledge

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The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (A LOT) is an online digital archive of lesbian oral/aural testimonies housed at the Simon AEG IWE41600KB INDUCTION WOK ACTIVE TOUCH Fraser University Library.A LOT began as a simple preservation project.Many people who interviewed women in the 1980s and 1990s about their experiences as lesbians had not archived their analog tapes.I had access to a lab and funding that would allow me to convert analog tapes to.

wav (digital sound) files, and it was this modest task I set out to do in 2010.The deeper I read into the literature on digital humanities, however, the more complex and exciting the project became.In this note I present the ideas that have shaped my thinking about building this archives, the concept NIPPLE CREAM for the archives that has evolved, and our overall objectives.