Web dissemination of Tuscan oral archives

The project Grammo-foni. Le soffitte della voce (Gra.fo), carried out by Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Siena with funding from Regione Toscana (PAR FAS 2007-13), preserved around thirty oral archives collected within various fields of research by scholars and amateurs in the Tuscan territory. The preservation of such archives, which have so far remained unknown to the large public, entailed their detection as a first step, and then the digitisation (including restoration, when necessary) and cataloguing of the recordings contained in them. The oral documents preserved are disseminated via a web portal (http://grafo.sns.it) that allows registered users to access the audio files and the corresponding cataloguing records, together with the relative transcriptions and accompanying material (when available). The present paper describes the Gra.fo web portal: from the types of search provided to the cataloguing records.