Illustrating an archive based on oral sources

The project "Voices, words and texts of the Campania region"

Abstract

In this paper, we share the experiences gained by our research team in the digitization and dissemination of an archive of dialectal speech. After presenting the structure and the con-tents of our archive, we discuss some strategies we employed to disclose the archive to an audience of non-specialists. Such strategies include a website with multimedia narratives based on the contents of the archive itself, and the creation of small museums which further enhance such contents and which are located in the same areas from which the data were collected. Thanks to these different dissemination strategies, our work meets the need for giving back to the communities under investigation and it offers a model for the enhance-ment of oral sources as intangible cultural heritage.