Sound barriers: Oral history, copyright, and the OHRRG experience at the State Library of Western Australia [slides]
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Oral histories
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Sound barriers: Oral history, copyright, and the OHRRG experience at the State Library of Western Australia
ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge.
Abstract:
Introduction: From 2010 to 2013 the State Library of Western Australian undertook a project to digitise its significant collection of oral histories. One of the key outcomes of this project was to make digitised oral histories available for access online; however copyright concerns were a major barrier to this outcome. Oral history as a medium is unique among the original materials collected by libraries, in that:
