Community-based survey and oral archive infrastructure in the Archivio Vi.Vo. project

Audio and audiovisual archives are at the crossroads of different fields of knowledge, yet theyrequire common solutions for both their long-term preservation and their description, availability,use and reuse.Archivio Vi.Vo.is an Italian project financed by the Region of Tuscany, aimingto: (i) explore methods for long-term preservation and secure access to oral sources, and (ii)develop an infrastructure under the CLARIN-IT umbrella offering several services for scholarsfrom different domains interested in oral sources. This paper describes the project’s infrastructureand its methodology through a case study on Caterina Bueno’s audio archive.