Less is more when FAIR. The minimum level of description in pathological oral and written data

This paper presents a case study under the DELAD initiative, on the basis of two different types of data originating in a former neuropsychiatric hospital in Italy: a collection of oral interviews recorded in 1977 by Anna Maria Bruzzone inside the hospital, and a long diary written by a schizophrenic patient in the Seventies. Given the vulnerability of the subjects involved, and the distance in time from the data collection, not all the audio and written material may be accessible). The aim of this work is to address some of the challenges in archiving and storing legacy data referring to vulnerable people in European infrastructures, and to present a minimum set of metadata that can be accessed for further research, according to the FAIR principles.