diff --git a/.claude/skills/add-collection/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/add-collection/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..658d8f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/add-collection/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +name: add-collection +description: Add one real oral-history or voice-testimony collection to data/collections.json the Mapping Voices way — next MV- id, controlled vocabularies, honest verification status and provenance, review-log entry, regenerated exports. Use when asked to "add", "list", or "put on the map" a specific collection, or to turn a new-collection issue into a record. +--- + +# Add a collection + +Rules that override everything below: METHODOLOGY.md §1 (inclusion) and the +honesty rule — never invent a field. Omit what the source doesn't support. + +1. **Confirm it qualifies** (METHODOLOGY §1–2): recorded human voice; real + holder; the holder's own public page. Search for duplicates first: + `grep -i "" data/collections.json` and by URL host. +2. **Gather facts** from the holder's page (WebFetch; if blocked, WebSearch + results pointing at the holder's own pages — then the record stays + `partially_verified` and the method is `search-based`). Need: title, + holder, place (city), languages *as the source states them*, what it + documents, start/end years, access conditions. +3. **Write the record** — field reference: DATA_DICTIONARY.md §2. + - `mv_id`: next unused (`node -e 'const d=require("./data/collections.json");console.log(Math.max(...d.map(r=>+r.mv_id.slice(3)))+1)'`). + - `country`, `languages`, `themes` must be terms in `data/vocab/`. Add a + missing language (with ISO 639-3) or theme (with group + scope note) + to the vocab in the same change. Never infer languages from geography; + use `Multiple languages` + `language_note` with the source's wording. + - Pin: city-level; subject-country rule in METHODOLOGY §5. + - `citation`: `". . Retrieved from <url>."` + - `verification_status`: `partially_verified` unless a person checked + every core field against the open source page (then `verified` + + `last_reviewed`). Flag inferred fields in `verification_note`. + - `provenance`: how it was found (issue number, contributor, search). + - `date_added`: today. Keep the canonical key order (see existing records). + - `related_ids`: only genuine relations; add the reverse link too. +4. **Log it**: append to `data/review-log.json` — + `{date, mv_id, check:"new record", method, reviewer, finding, evidence:[urls], changes:null, outcome:"added"}`. +5. **Check and build**: + ```bash + node scripts/validate-data.mjs && node --test tests/*.test.mjs + node scripts/build-data.mjs && node scripts/build-data.mjs --check + ``` +6. Add a line under `## [Unreleased]` in CHANGELOG.md (create the section + if missing). Commit with a message naming the MV- id. diff --git a/.claude/skills/fix-broken-links/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/fix-broken-links/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38e40b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/fix-broken-links/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +name: fix-broken-links +description: Follow up the weekly link-check issue ("Broken links detected in data/collections.json") — separate real failures from bot blocking, find each holder's current page, correct URLs and citations, flag what can't be resolved, and log every check. Use for "fix broken links", "link rot", or when the link-check issue updates. +context: fork +agent: general-purpose +--- + +# Fix broken links + +1. Read the open GitHub issue labelled `broken-links` in adab-tech/mapping + (GitHub MCP `issue_read`). Save its table to a file for the worksheet. +2. Triage by result: **404 / 410 / DNS failure** = real, fix first. + **403 / 429 / 503 / timeout** = usually bot blocking or transient; only + investigate if it persists across two weekly runs. +3. For each real failure, find the holder's **current own page** (WebFetch; + if blocked, WebSearch results on the holder's domain). Never substitute a + third-party or Wikipedia page. If a collection has truly gone, set + `verification_status: "unavailable"` with a dated `verification_note` — + never delete the record (METHODOLOGY §10). +4. Apply with a migration script (pattern: + `scripts/migrations/2026-09-27-source-review.mjs`): update `url`, replace + the old URL inside `citation`, and append one `data/review-log.json` + entry per record (check `link`, evidence URLs, changes, outcome). +5. Also move `http://` URLs to https where the same page is served there + (the validator lists them as warnings). +6. `node scripts/validate-data.mjs && node --test tests/*.test.mjs && node scripts/build-data.mjs`; + CHANGELOG `[Unreleased]` under "Broken-source changes"; commit. +7. Regenerate the worksheet with `--links` so unresolved records are priority 1. diff --git a/.claude/skills/release-dataset/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/release-dataset/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..757dedf --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/release-dataset/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +name: release-dataset +description: Cut a new Mapping Voices dataset version — bump the version everywhere it appears, finalize the CHANGELOG, refresh counts, rebuild exports, and run every check. Use for "release", "bump the version", "cut v0.x". +--- + +# Release the dataset + +1. Pick the version (semantic: new records/fields → minor; corrections only → patch). +2. Update **every** place the version or counts appear — find them with: + ```bash + grep -rn "0\.[0-9]\.[0-9]" --include=*.md --include=*.html --include=*.cff --include=*.json . \ + | grep -v "data/\(collections\|languages\|themes\|countries\|stats\|review-log\)" + ``` + Always: `data/dataset-meta.json` (version, released), `CITATION.cff` + (version, date-released), `index.html` JSON-LD (version, dateModified), + `about.html` fallback figures and citation, `README.md` headline counts + and citation, `DATA_DICTIONARY.md` schema line, `PROJECT.md` status. + Counts come from `node scripts/build-data.mjs && node -e 'console.log(require("./data/stats.json").totals)'`. +3. CHANGELOG: rename `[Unreleased]` to `[x.y.z] — YYYY-MM-DD — <title>`, + grouped as Dataset (additions, removals, corrections, broken-source + changes, taxonomy), Atlas, Tooling. +4. Rebuild and run everything: + ```bash + node scripts/build-data.mjs + node scripts/validate-data.mjs && node --test tests/*.test.mjs \ + && node scripts/build-data.mjs --check && node scripts/validate-locales.mjs + ``` +5. Run the `site-audit` skill if UI changed. Commit "Release dataset vx.y.z". +6. After merge: suggest a GitHub release/tag (Zenodo mints a DOI per release + if the integration is enabled). diff --git a/.claude/skills/site-audit/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/site-audit/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fdcc4ae --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/site-audit/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +name: site-audit +description: Run the browser and accessibility audit (axe-core WCAG 2.1 AA, device emulation, reflow, keyboard, reduced motion, RTL) against a local server and fix what fails. Use after UI changes, before a release, or when asked to "test the site", "check accessibility", "check mobile". +context: fork +agent: general-purpose +--- + +# Site audit + +1. Serve the repo: `python3 -m http.server 8765` (background). +2. Get dependencies without polluting the repo, e.g. in a scratch dir: + `npm pack axe-core leaflet@1.9.4` and extract (both unpack to `package/` + — extract one at a time into separate folders). Playwright: use a global + install if present (`npm root -g`), Chromium at `/opt/pw-browsers`; do + not run `playwright install`. +3. Run: + ```bash + PW=$(npm root -g)/playwright AXE=<dir>/axe.min.js LEAFLET_DIR=<dir>/dist \ + node tests/browser/audit.mjs http://localhost:8765 + ``` + (`LEAFLET_DIR` only if the unpkg CDN is unreachable.) +4. For each FAIL: reproduce, fix in the page's CSS/JS, re-run until green. + Contrast failures on animated elements may be mid-transition — the audit + waits for animations; confirm at rest before changing colours. +5. If you add a page, add it to the page lists in `tests/browser/audit.mjs`. +6. Update the "Last run" line and results table in + docs/testing/BROWSER-TESTING.md. Only Chromium can run here — keep the + manual Safari/Firefox/device/screen-reader checklist honest. +7. Stop the server. diff --git a/.claude/skills/triage-leads/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/triage-leads/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3746a16 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/triage-leads/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +name: triage-leads +description: Research open leads in docs/review-queue.csv (or a list the user gives) and resolve each one — add as a record, mark duplicate, out of scope, curator decision, or needs URL. Fans out to parallel subagents for batches. Use for "work the review queue", "triage leads", "process these suggestions". +context: fork +agent: general-purpose +--- + +# Triage leads + +**Input:** open rows in `docs/review-queue.csv` (column `triage_2026_09_27` +starts with `open:`), or a list from the user. Prefer leads that improve +coverage outside the US/UK — the dataset is skewed (see docs/AUDIT.md §5). + +## Delegate in batches + +For more than ~5 leads, split them into batches of 4–6 and spawn one +general-purpose subagent per batch **in parallel**. Give each the lead rows +and these instructions, and ask for JSON back — do not let subagents edit +files (avoids conflicts): + +```json +{"collection": "...", "outcome": "add|duplicate|out of scope|curator decision|needs URL", + "reason": "...", "evidence": ["https://..."], + "record": { /* full draft record per DATA_DICTIONARY §2, only when outcome=add */ }} +``` + +Each subagent: check duplicates against data/collections.json; apply the +inclusion rules (METHODOLOGY §1–2); research with WebSearch/WebFetch; draft +records only from what the holder's pages support; mark inferred languages +or unknown years in `verification_note`; never guess a URL. + +## Merge (main context) + +1. Review every draft adversarially: is the URL the holder's own page? Is + any field unsupported? Downgrade to `curator decision` when unsure. +2. Apply with a migration script in `scripts/migrations/<date>-queue-*.mjs` + (pattern: `2026-09-27-queue-additions.mjs`): assign sequential `mv_id`s, + add vocab terms, reciprocal `related_ids`, review-log entries (method + `search-based` unless pages were opened), and write outcomes into a new + `triage_<date>` column of docs/review-queue.csv. +3. `node scripts/validate-data.mjs && node --test tests/*.test.mjs && node scripts/build-data.mjs` +4. CHANGELOG `[Unreleased]`; commit. Report counts per outcome. + +Sensitive collections (trauma, legal proceedings, community-governed +material) go to `curator decision` with the reason — METHODOLOGY §11. diff --git a/.claude/skills/verify-records/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/verify-records/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b979bb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/verify-records/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +name: verify-records +description: Run the field-by-field verification workflow — generate the prioritized review worksheet, or import a completed one so records become verified. Use for "verification pass", "review worksheet", "import my review", "promote records to verified". +--- + +# Verify records + +Only a **person who opened the source page** can make a record `verified` +(METHODOLOGY §4). Claude can prepare and import, not verify. Full guide: +docs/review/README.md. + +**Prepare** a worksheet (optionally raising link-check failures): +```bash +# save the body of the latest "Broken links detected" issue to /tmp/links.md if relevant +node scripts/review-worksheet.mjs [--links /tmp/links.md] +``` +Hand the user `docs/review/worksheet.csv` and the column guide from +docs/review/README.md §2. + +**Import** a completed worksheet the user provides: +```bash +node scripts/apply-review.mjs <file.csv> --dry-run # show what would change +node scripts/apply-review.mjs <file.csv> +node scripts/validate-data.mjs && node scripts/build-data.mjs +``` +Rows with fields marked `no` stay `partially_verified` and are listed for +hand correction — make those corrections in data/collections.json only from +the reviewer's notes, log them, and ask the reviewer to confirm. Report how +many records are now verified (`data/stats.json` → `by_verification_status`). diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b751c44 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +# Local agent worktrees (Claude Code) +.claude/worktrees/ diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 937d307..9bb4931 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -4,6 +4,67 @@ All notable changes to the Mapping Voices dataset and atlas. Dataset changes are recorded as additions, removals, corrections, metadata changes, broken-source changes, and taxonomy changes (METHODOLOGY §10, §12). +## [Unreleased] — Access, institution type, period discussed; Theme Explorer; Coverage Gaps + +### Dataset +- **Metadata changes:** three optional fields, previously listed as + planned, are now populated — each value derived mechanically from text + already in the record, and omitted wherever that text does not clearly + support one. No existing value of any record was changed; no record's + verification status changed. + - `access` (49 of 61 records with `access_notes`; 22%): 23 open online, + 12 partial online, 9 on site only, 3 on request, 2 registration + required. The 12 notes left without a value are ambiguous or describe + custody rather than access; records without `access_notes` get none. + - `archive_type` (143 of 221; 65%) from the holding institution's name: + 76 university or research institute, 21 museum, 20 foundation or + nonprofit, 15 national archive or library, 5 intergovernmental body, + 2 each broadcaster, community or independent project, government + agency. 78 left blank (name does not state the type, or a joint or + ambiguous holder). + - `historical_period_start` / `historical_period_end` (40 of 221; 18%) + for collections principally about one bounded event (e.g. Holocaust + 1933–1945, Korean War 1950–1953, Jeju 4.3 1947–1954). Every mapping is + listed for curators in `docs/HISTORICAL-PERIODS.md`. +- **Taxonomy:** new controlled vocabularies `data/vocab/access.json` + (6 terms) and `data/vocab/archive-types.json` (9 terms), each term with a + definition. The planned `archive_type` list was consolidated (e.g. + `national archive` + `library` → `national archive or library`). +- **Review log:** new method `derived` (a value derived from the record's + own sourced text, no new source consulted); 174 entries, one per record + changed. Script: `scripts/migrations/2026-09-28-derived-fields.mjs` + (idempotent). +- **Exports:** the new fields are in `collections.csv` / `.geojson`; + `stats.json` adds `by_access`, `by_archive_type`, and their coverage; + `datapackage.json` lists the two new vocabularies. + +### Atlas +- New **Access** filter (options from the data; combines with the other + filters; kept in the URL as `?access=open+online`). +- The record panel shows the access category above the holder's access + notes, the institution type, and the **Period discussed** (e.g. + 1939–1945) separately from the recording period. +- New UI strings translated into Hausa, French, and Arabic. +- New **Theme Explorer** (`themes.html`): the 15 top-level theme groups, + each theme with its scope note and count, the collections it is assigned + to, and the countries and languages they span, linking back into filtered + atlas views. Search, sort, and the open theme live in the URL + (`?q=…&sort=…#theme-…`). +- New **Coverage Gaps** page (`gaps.html`): per UN M49 region and subregion, + which UN member states have an indexed collection and which have none + yet, each gap with a link to propose a collection. States plainly that it + shows gaps in the indexed dataset, not in oral history. +- "Themes" and "Coverage gaps" added to the site navigation and the atlas + footer (new locale keys `footer.themes`, `footer.gaps` in en, ha, fr, ar). + +### Tooling +- The validator checks `access` and `archive_type` against their + vocabularies and accepts review-log method `derived`; tests added. +- New static reference file `data/reference/un-m49-countries.json` (the 193 + UN member states, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, M49 region/subregion), with a test + (`tests/un-m49-countries.test.mjs`) that it agrees with + `data/vocab/countries.json`. + ## [0.3.0] — 2026-09-27 — Language Explorer, review tooling, source review ### Dataset diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eff3b08 --- /dev/null +++ b/CLAUDE.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +# Mapping Voices — notes for Claude sessions + +Static, no-build atlas (plain HTML/CSS/JS + Leaflet) over an open dataset of +oral-history collections. The research contribution is the metadata, so +data integrity outranks everything else. + +## Ground rules +- **Honesty rule:** never invent metadata. Omit fields the source doesn't + support; flag inferences in `verification_note`. Details: METHODOLOGY.md. +- Only a person who opened the source page can make a record `verified`. + Search-based checks may correct links but never promote. +- Every data change is logged in `data/review-log.json` and made through a + reproducible script in `scripts/migrations/` when it touches many records. +- `mv_id`s are permanent; never renumber or reuse. Never delete a record + whose source disappears — mark it `unavailable`. +- Counts describe the indexed dataset, not oral history in the world. + +## Checks (run before every commit) +```bash +node scripts/validate-data.mjs && node --test tests/*.test.mjs +node scripts/build-data.mjs --check # run without --check to regenerate exports +node scripts/validate-locales.mjs # UI strings exist in en, ha, fr, ar +``` + +## Quick actions (project skills in .claude/skills/) +| Skill | Use for | +|---|---| +| `add-collection` | Add one collection correctly | +| `triage-leads` | Work the review queue; fans out to parallel subagents | +| `verify-records` | Generate / import the field-by-field review worksheet | +| `fix-broken-links` | Follow up the weekly link-check issue | +| `release-dataset` | Bump version everywhere, finalize CHANGELOG, rebuild | +| `site-audit` | Browser + accessibility audit (tests/browser/audit.mjs) | + +## Environment notes +- The Leaflet CDN, map tiles, and many archive sites may be unreachable from + cloud sessions; WebSearch usually works. `npm pack` works for fetching + packages into a scratch dir. Chromium is at /opt/pw-browsers. +- UI strings: add every new key to all four `locales/*.json` files with real + translations. diff --git a/DATA_DICTIONARY.md b/DATA_DICTIONARY.md index a54d332..c7da141 100644 --- a/DATA_DICTIONARY.md +++ b/DATA_DICTIONARY.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ its controlled vocabularies, and its exported files. How values are *chosen* (inclusion, verification, geolocation, classification) is in [`METHODOLOGY.md`](METHODOLOGY.md). -**Schema version:** matches dataset v0.3.0 · **Enforced by:** +**Schema version:** dataset v0.3.0 plus the Unreleased changes in `CHANGELOG.md` · **Enforced by:** `scripts/validate-data.mjs` (runs in CI on every pull request) --- @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ its controlled vocabularies, and its exported files. How values are | `data/vocab/countries.json` | Controlled vocabulary for `country` | Yes | | `data/vocab/languages.json` | Controlled vocabulary for `languages` | Yes | | `data/vocab/themes.json` | Controlled taxonomy for `themes` | Yes | +| `data/vocab/access.json` | Controlled vocabulary for `access` | Yes | +| `data/vocab/archive-types.json` | Controlled vocabulary for `archive_type` | Yes | | `data/dataset-meta.json` | Dataset title, version, release date, license | Yes, at release | | `data/review-log.json` | Append-only log of source checks (see §6) | Via `scripts/apply-review.mjs` or migration scripts | | `data/new-entries-provenance.json` | Harvest provenance for the 19 September 2026 audit additions | Historical | @@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ node scripts/build-data.mjs --check # what CI runs: fail if stale | `id` | string | ✔ | Kebab-case slug, unique. Internal key used by `related_ids` and older links. Keep stable once published; `mv_id` is the identifier to cite. | | `title` | string | ✔ | The collection's real name as the holder publishes it (or the archive/fonds name if the institution holds several). | | `archive` | string | ✔ | The real name of the holding institution or project. | +| `archive_type` | string | — | A `name` from `data/vocab/archive-types.json`: the kind of institution named in `archive` (§3). Set only when the name makes the type unambiguous; omitted for joint, renamed, or unclear holders. Current values were derived from the name (METHODOLOGY §4, method `derived`). | ### Place @@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ are joined from the country vocabulary in the exports. |---|---|---|---| | `decade_start` | integer | ✔ | Year the collection/recording effort began (a year, despite the name). 1800 – current year. | | `decade_end` | integer \| null | ✔ | Year it ended, or `null` if ongoing. Not before `decade_start`; not in the future. | -| `historical_period_start`, `historical_period_end` | integer \| null | — | *Planned (v1.0).* Years bounding the events the testimony discusses, as distinct from when it was recorded. Validated when present; not yet populated. | +| `historical_period_start`, `historical_period_end` | integer \| null | — | Years bounding the events the testimony **discusses**, as distinct from when it was recorded. Set only when the collection is principally about one bounded event named in its title or summary; a single-year event has start = end. Integers, end not before start. Current values were derived from the record text; each event → years mapping is listed for checking in [`docs/HISTORICAL-PERIODS.md`](docs/HISTORICAL-PERIODS.md). Absent on most records: absent means “not derived”, not “no historical focus”. | ### Access and linking @@ -85,6 +88,7 @@ are joined from the country vocabulary in the exports. |---|---|---|---| | `url` | string | ✔ | `http(s)` URL of the holder's own public page for the collection (or archive). Unique across the dataset, ignoring scheme, `www.`, and trailing slash. `http://` is allowed but flagged. | | `access_notes` | string | — | How the collection is actually reached, from the holder's page: e.g. "Freely accessible online", "Reading-room access only", "Partial collection online, full collection by request". Never assumed. | +| `access` | string | — | A `name` from `data/vocab/access.json`: a coarse, filterable summary of `access_notes`. Set only when `access_notes` clearly support it; never without `access_notes`. `access_notes` remain the authoritative wording. | | `preview_url` | string \| null | — | Only when the holder itself provides a listen/watch page. Never a third-party mirror. | | `citation` | string | — | A citation for the collection built from verified fields only: `"Institution. Title. Retrieved from URL."` Never invent a DOI, edition, or date. | | `related_ids` | string[] | — | `id`s of other records that are genuinely related (same event, region, or programme). Must resolve; must not include the record's own `id`. | @@ -102,12 +106,12 @@ are joined from the country vocabulary in the exports. ### Planned fields (not yet in the data) These are defined so that contributors and tools use consistent names when -they arrive. The validator does not check them yet. +they arrive. The validator does not check them yet. (`access`, +`archive_type`, and the historical period moved out of this list when they +were first populated; see above.) | Field | Planned values | |---|---| -| `archive_type` | `national archive`, `university archive`, `library`, `museum`, `research institute`, `community archive`, `independent project`, `language archive`, `intergovernmental body` | -| `access` | `open online`, `partial online`, `registration required`, `on request`, `on site only`, `restricted` | | `community` | Free text: the community or population represented, in the holder's terms | | `region` / `locality` | Sub-national place names, when the source supports them | @@ -144,6 +148,24 @@ languages`, `Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages`. They are excluded from "number of languages" statistics and shown in their own group in the interface. +### `access.json` and `archive-types.json` + +| Key | Definition | +|---|---| +| `name` | Canonical term used in records | +| `definition` | When the term applies; read it before assigning a value | + +`access` terms: `open online`, `partial online`, `registration required`, +`on request`, `on site only`, `restricted`. + +`archive_type` terms: `national archive or library`, `university or +research institute`, `museum`, `community or independent project`, +`broadcaster`, `intergovernmental body`, `language archive`, `foundation or +nonprofit`, `government agency`. + +Both fields are optional. Omit them rather than guess: a missing value +means “not recorded”, and the statistics report it as such. + ### `themes.json` | Key | Definition | @@ -182,7 +204,8 @@ columns in this order: `mv_id, id, title, archive, country, iso3166_1_alpha2, region, subregion, lat, lng, languages, language_note, themes, theme_groups, decade_start, -decade_end, summary, url, citation, access_notes, related_ids, preview_url, +decade_end, historical_period_start, historical_period_end, summary, url, +citation, access_notes, access, archive_type, related_ids, preview_url, verification_status, verification_note, provenance, date_added` Multi-valued fields (`languages`, `themes`, `theme_groups`, `related_ids`) @@ -199,7 +222,8 @@ per language, and languages per country). **`stats.json`** — totals (collections, countries, individual languages, themes, institutions, decades), and counts by region, verification status, country, language, theme group, and decade (a collection counts once in -every decade it spans), plus optional-field coverage. +every decade it spans), by `access` and by `archive_type` (records without +a value counted as `(not recorded)`), plus optional-field coverage. ## 6. Review log (`data/review-log.json`) @@ -210,12 +234,13 @@ every decade it spans), plus optional-field coverage. | `date` | `YYYY-MM-DD` of the check | | `mv_id` | The record checked (must exist) | | `check` | What was checked: `link`, `https`, `languages`, `field-by-field`, … | -| `method` | `field-by-field` (a person compared every core field with the source page), `search-based` (evidence from search results; source page not opened), or `link-check` | +| `method` | `field-by-field` (a person compared every core field with the source page), `search-based` (evidence from search results; source page not opened), `link-check`, or `derived` (a value derived mechanically from the record's own sourced text — e.g. `access` from `access_notes` — with no new source consulted; `evidence` is the record's own `url`) | | `reviewer` | Who did it | | `finding` | What was found, in plain language | | `evidence` | URLs supporting the finding | | `changes` | `{ field: { from, to } }` applied to the record, or `null` | | `outcome` | e.g. `corrected`, `flagged`, `unchanged`, or the resulting verification status | -Only `field-by-field` entries can justify `verified`. The validator checks +Only `field-by-field` entries can justify `verified`; `derived` entries +never change a record's verification status. The validator checks every entry's shape and that its `mv_id` exists. diff --git a/METHODOLOGY.md b/METHODOLOGY.md index 71ceabb..48f5dc9 100644 --- a/METHODOLOGY.md +++ b/METHODOLOGY.md @@ -124,14 +124,37 @@ opened the source page; the validator enforces the date. Search-based checks can correct links and flag problems but never promote a record. The worksheet workflow is described in `docs/review/README.md`. +### Derived values (method `derived`) + +Some optional fields can be filled **mechanically from text a record +already contains**, without consulting any new source: `access` from +`access_notes`, `archive_type` from the holding institution's name, and the +historical period discussed from a bounded event named in the title or +summary (§8). These are logged with method `derived` (reviewer “Claude +(derived from record text)” for the first pass, 2026-09), one review-log +entry per record changed, with the record's own `url` as evidence and the +quoted phrase that justified each value in the finding. The rules are: + +- **Only where the text clearly supports the value.** If a phrase could + support two values, or the text describes custody rather than access, + the field is left out. Coverage is reported, not maximised. +- **Never overwrite.** A value set by a curator is kept. +- **Never promote.** A derived value is no stronger than the text it came + from, and does not change `verification_status`. A field-by-field review + confirms or corrects it against the source. +- **Reproducible.** The derivation is a script + (`scripts/migrations/2026-09-28-derived-fields.mjs`) listing each rule, + each judgement, and each record deliberately left blank. + ### Automated checks `scripts/validate-data.mjs` runs on every pull request and deployment. It rejects missing required fields, malformed or duplicate `id`/`mv_id`, duplicate URLs (ignoring scheme, `www.`, and trailing slashes), duplicate title + institution pairs, out-of-range or `0,0` coordinates, -non-http(s) URLs, values outside the controlled vocabularies, impossible -dates, and dangling `related_ids`. It warns on `http://` URLs. +non-http(s) URLs, values outside the controlled vocabularies (including +the optional `access` and `archive_type`), impossible dates, and dangling +`related_ids`. It warns on `http://` URLs. `scripts/check-links.mjs` requests every URL weekly and opens a tracking issue for failures. `tests/` holds tests for the validator itself. @@ -206,12 +229,25 @@ Two different periods matter to historians and are kept separate: | Period | Field | Status | |---|---|---| | **Recording / collection period** — when the testimony was gathered | `decade_start`, `decade_end` (`null` = ongoing) | Recorded for every record. Years, not just decades, despite the field name. | -| **Historical period discussed** — when the events described took place | `historical_period_start`, `historical_period_end` | Defined, not yet populated (planned for v1.0). | +| **Historical period discussed** — when the events described took place | `historical_period_start`, `historical_period_end` | Partly populated (40 of 221 records): derived, curator-checkable (below). | Example: a project recording Partition survivors in 2010–2020 has -recording period 2010–present but discusses 1947. Until the second field is -populated, filtering by decade filters by **recording** period only, and -the record panel labels the period shown as the "Recording period". +recording period 2010–present but discusses 1947. + +The historical period is set **only when a collection is principally +about one bounded event** that its own title or summary names — the +Holocaust, the Korean War, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, the +1947–54 Jeju uprising. The years are those stated in the summary or, when +the summary names the event without dates, the event's standard dates. +Every event → years mapping, and every record considered but left blank, +is listed in [`docs/HISTORICAL-PERIODS.md`](docs/HISTORICAL-PERIODS.md) so +a curator can check it. Most records have no value: life-history, +folklore, and multi-event collections are not reduced to a date range, and +a blank means “not derived”, not “no historical focus”. + +Filtering by decade still filters by **recording** period only. The record +panel shows the "Recording period" and, when present, the "Period +discussed" separately. ## 9. How duplicates are handled diff --git a/PROJECT.md b/PROJECT.md index 1341f41..378f6f0 100644 --- a/PROJECT.md +++ b/PROJECT.md @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ and controlled access level. ### Phase 1 — Dataset architecture - ✅ Canonical record structure; stable `MV-` identifiers - ✅ Controlled vocabularies: countries (ISO 3166, UN M49), languages (ISO 639-3), themes (15 groups), verification status -- 🟡 Archive type, access level, historical period: defined, not populated +- 🟡 Archive type (143 records), access level (49), historical period discussed (40): partly populated, derived from each record's own text (`derived` review-log method); curator check pending (`docs/HISTORICAL-PERIODS.md`) ### Phase 2 — Data collection & verification - ✅ Verification workflow and levels defined @@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ and controlled access level. - ✅ Combined filters; grouped theme and language options - ✅ URL state for filters, search, and selected collection (shareable, citable views) - ✅ Collection panel: identifier, verification status, languages + note, themes, recording period, access, citation, related collections, source link, copy-link -- ⬜ Filters for archive type, access, institution, region +- ✅ Access filter; record panel shows access category, institution type, and period discussed +- ⬜ Filters for archive type, institution, region ### Phase 6–8 — Language, theme, and timeline explorers - ✅ Language Explorer (`languages.html`): ISO 639-3 codes, alternate names, countries, collections, themes, recording span, multilingual share; linked both ways with the atlas diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 072143d..43a98e8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ Tanzania, Myanmar, Burkina Faso, and many other places have no entry yet, usually because no verifiable public page for a real archive has been confirmed, not because the region lacks oral history. The absence of a pin is not evidence of absence. See [`docs/AUDIT.md`](docs/AUDIT.md) for the -gap analysis. +gap analysis, and the [Coverage Gaps](https://adamu.tech/mapping/gaps.html) +page (`gaps.html`) for every UN member state with no indexed collection yet, +by region, each with a link to propose one. ## How data is verified @@ -95,7 +97,11 @@ The dataset is licensed **CC BY 4.0** and published as: Atlas views are addressable: filters, search, and the selected collection live in the URL, e.g. [`?country=Niger&language=Hausa`](https://adamu.tech/mapping/?country=Niger&language=Hausa) -or [`?c=MV-000023`](https://adamu.tech/mapping/?c=MV-000023). +or [`?c=MV-000023`](https://adamu.tech/mapping/?c=MV-000023). The +[Language Explorer](https://adamu.tech/mapping/languages.html) and the +[Theme Explorer](https://adamu.tech/mapping/themes.html) (the 15 theme groups, +scope notes, and the collections, countries, and languages behind each theme) +browse the same data as lists and link back into these atlas views. **Mapping an archive does not grant permission to reproduce its contents.** Access to and reuse of the collections themselves is governed @@ -208,14 +214,19 @@ repository" button on the repo page). ``` index.html the atlas about.html project page: question, method, data, ethics, limitations -css/style.css, css/about.css styles +languages.html Language Explorer: languages, ISO codes, countries, collections +themes.html Theme Explorer: theme groups, scope notes, collections, countries, languages +gaps.html Coverage Gaps: UN member states with / without an indexed collection +css/*.css styles (style.css tokens; about, languages, themes, gaps pages) js/app.js map, search, filters, URL state, record panel +js/{languages,themes,gaps}.js the explorer and coverage pages locales/*.json UI translations (en, ha, fr, ar) data/collections.json canonical records (edit this) data/vocab/*.json controlled vocabularies: countries, languages, themes data/dataset-meta.json dataset version, release date, license data/collections.{csv,geojson} generated exports (don't edit by hand) data/{languages,themes,countries,stats,datapackage}.json generated indexes +data/reference/un-m49-countries.json static list of the 193 UN member states (UN M49 regions) scripts/validate-data.mjs data validator scripts/build-data.mjs export generator scripts/check-links.mjs weekly link-health check diff --git a/about.html b/about.html index dd831df..67ed206 100644 --- a/about.html +++ b/about.html @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ <a href="#limitations">Limitations</a> <a href="#cite">Cite</a> <a href="languages.html">Languages</a> + <a href="themes.html">Themes</a> + <a href="gaps.html">Coverage gaps</a> <a href="./" class="page-nav-cta">Open the atlas</a> </nav> </div> @@ -116,7 +118,9 @@ <h2 id="h-method"><span class="num">02</span> Method</h2> language and theme classification, duplicate handling, and corrections — is public: <a href="https://github.com/adab-tech/mapping/blob/main/METHODOLOGY.md">METHODOLOGY.md</a>. Browse languages, their ISO codes, and the collections recorded in them in - the <a href="languages.html">Language Explorer</a>. Every field is defined in the + the <a href="languages.html">Language Explorer</a>, the thematic taxonomy in the + <a href="themes.html">Theme Explorer</a>, and where the index does not yet reach + in <a href="gaps.html">Coverage Gaps</a>. Every field is defined in the <a href="https://github.com/adab-tech/mapping/blob/main/DATA_DICTIONARY.md">data dictionary</a>. </p> </section> @@ -189,7 +193,7 @@ <h2 id="h-limitations"><span class="num">07</span> Limitations</h2> <li>Coverage is uneven. Institutions with English-language web presences are easier to find and verify, which skews the dataset toward them.</li> <li>The absence of a pin for a place or language is not evidence that no oral-history collection or tradition exists there.</li> <li>Most records are currently <em>partially verified</em>: institutions and links are confirmed, but a field-by-field review against each source is still under way. In 19 records, languages are inferred from subject and place and flagged as such.</li> - <li>The <code>decade_start</code>/<code>decade_end</code> fields record when a collection was gathered, not the historical period its testimony discusses; the second is not yet captured.</li> + <li>The <code>decade_start</code>/<code>decade_end</code> fields record when a collection was gathered, not the historical period its testimony discusses; the period discussed is recorded separately, so far only for the 40 collections principally about one bounded event, and derived from the record's own text for a curator to check (<a href="https://github.com/adab-tech/mapping/blob/main/docs/HISTORICAL-PERIODS.md">mappings</a>).</li> <li>Themes are discovery aids, not exhaustive descriptions of a collection.</li> </ul> </section> diff --git a/css/gaps.css b/css/gaps.css new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4921562 --- /dev/null +++ b/css/gaps.css @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +/* ========================================================================== + Mapping Voices — Coverage Gaps (gaps.html). + Builds on style.css (tokens), about.css (page layout, .principle, + .page-stats) and languages.css (.lx-main, .lx-status). + ========================================================================== */ + +.gx-principle { + font-size: 1.2rem; + margin: 1.5rem 0; +} + +.gx-cta { + padding: 0.8rem 1rem; + background: var(--paper-panel); + border: 1px solid var(--rule); + border-inline-start: 3px solid var(--accent); + border-radius: var(--radius); +} + +.gx-cta a { + color: var(--accent-dark); + font-weight: 600; +} + +/* Summary table ---------------------------------------------------------- */ + +.gx-table-wrap { + overflow-x: auto; +} + +.gx-table { + width: 100%; + border-collapse: collapse; + font-size: 0.92rem; +} + +.gx-table th, +.gx-table td { + text-align: start; + padding: 0.55rem 0.5rem; + border-bottom: 1px solid var(--rule-soft); + vertical-align: middle; +} + +.gx-table thead th { + font-size: 0.72rem; + font-weight: 600; + text-transform: uppercase; + letter-spacing: 0.05em; + color: var(--ink-soft); + border-bottom-color: var(--rule); +} + +.gx-table tbody th a { + color: var(--accent-dark); + font-weight: 600; +} + +.gx-table .gx-num { + text-align: end; + font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; +} + +.gx-share { + width: 45%; +} + +.gx-share-text { + display: block; + font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; +} + +/* Proportion bar (decorative; figures are always given in text) ---------- */ + +.gx-bar { + display: block; + height: 0.5rem; + margin-top: 0.3rem; + background: var(--paper-deep); + border: 1px solid var(--rule); + border-radius: 999px; + overflow: hidden; +} + +.gx-bar-fill { + display: block; + height: 100%; + background: var(--accent); +} + +/* Region sections ---------------------------------------------------------- */ + +.gx-region-summary { + margin: 0; +} + +.gx-region > .gx-bar { + max-width: 24rem; + margin: 0.4rem 0 1.25rem; +} + +.gx-sub { + margin: 0 0 1.5rem; +} + +.gx-sub-title { + display: flex; + flex-wrap: wrap; + align-items: baseline; + gap: 0.2rem 0.75rem; + font-size: 1.05rem; + margin: 0 0 0.5rem; +} + +.gx-sub-meta { + font-family: var(--font-ui); + font-size: 0.8rem; + font-weight: 500; + color: var(--ink-soft); +} + +.gx-cols { + display: grid; + grid-template-columns: 1fr; + gap: 0.75rem; +} + +@media (min-width: 640px) { + .gx-cols { + grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; + } +} + +.gx-col { + padding: 0.6rem 0.8rem; + background: var(--paper-panel); + border: 1px solid var(--rule-soft); + border-radius: var(--radius); +} + +.gx-col-gaps { + border-style: dashed; + border-color: var(--rule); + background: transparent; +} + +.gx-label { + margin: 0 0 0.4rem; + font-size: 0.72rem; + font-weight: 600; + text-transform: uppercase; + letter-spacing: 0.05em; + color: var(--ink-soft); +} + +.gx-list { + list-style: none; + margin: 0; + padding: 0; + display: grid; + gap: 0.2rem; + font-size: 0.92rem; +} + +.gx-list li { + display: flex; + flex-wrap: wrap; + justify-content: space-between; + align-items: baseline; + gap: 0 0.75rem; +} + +.gx-count { + font-size: 0.8rem; + color: var(--ink-soft); + font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; +} + +.gx-propose { + font-size: 0.8rem; + font-weight: 600; + color: var(--accent-dark); +} + +.gx-other { + margin: 0.5rem 0 0; + font-size: 0.85rem; + color: var(--ink-soft); +} diff --git a/css/style.css b/css/style.css index 9f0a538..3965e76 100644 --- a/css/style.css +++ b/css/style.css @@ -694,6 +694,22 @@ button { font-weight: 600; } +/* Controlled access term, shown above the holder's own access notes. */ +.access-term { + display: inline-block; + margin-bottom: 0.3rem; + padding: 0.1rem 0.55rem; + border: 1px solid currentColor; + border-radius: 999px; + font-size: 0.78rem; + font-weight: 600; + color: var(--ink-soft); +} + +.access-notes { + display: block; +} + .detail-summary { font-size: 0.95rem; line-height: 1.55; diff --git a/css/themes.css b/css/themes.css new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06d0f11 --- /dev/null +++ b/css/themes.css @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +/* ========================================================================== + Mapping Voices — Theme Explorer (themes.html). + Reuses the Language Explorer's entry styles (languages.css: .lx-*); + only the two-field control row and the nested group → theme list differ. + ========================================================================== */ + +@media (min-width: 640px) { + .tx-controls { + grid-template-columns: 2fr 1fr; + } +} + +.tx-group > summary .lx-name { + font-size: 1.2rem; +} + +.tx-themes { + margin: 0.75rem 0 0; +} + +.tx-theme { + background: var(--paper); +} + +/* languages.css's `.lx-item[open] summary::before` also matches the summaries + of closed themes inside an open group; point their chevrons back. */ +.tx-theme:not([open]) > summary::before { + transform: rotate(-45deg); +} + +[dir="rtl"] .tx-theme:not([open]) > summary::before { + transform: rotate(135deg); +} + +.tx-theme > summary .lx-name { + font-size: 1rem; +} + +.tx-scope { + margin: 0.75rem 0 0; + font-size: 0.95rem; +} diff --git a/data/collections.csv b/data/collections.csv index 4ab07f1..41f5210 100644 --- a/data/collections.csv +++ b/data/collections.csv @@ -1,222 +1,222 @@ -mv_id,id,title,archive,country,iso3166_1_alpha2,region,subregion,lat,lng,languages,language_note,themes,theme_groups,decade_start,decade_end,summary,url,citation,access_notes,related_ids,preview_url,verification_status,verification_note,provenance,date_added -MV-000001,storycorps-national-archive,StoryCorps Archive,StoryCorps / Library of Congress American Folklife Center,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7128,-74.006,English; Spanish,,everyday life; family history; community memory,Memory & community,2003,,"Since 2003, StoryCorps has recorded unscripted conversations between everyday Americans about their lives. The full collection is preserved at the Library of Congress, with searchable highlights published in the online StoryCorps Archive.",https://archive.storycorps.org/,StoryCorps / Library of Congress American Folklife Center. StoryCorps Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.storycorps.org/.,Freely accessible online via the StoryCorps Archive; the full recorded collection is preserved at the Library of Congress.,911-memorial-museum-oral-history; a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland; moise-a-khayrallah-center-for-lebanese-diaspora; preserve-the-baltimore-uprising; queens-memory-project; the-historymakers; the-outwords-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000002,veterans-history-project,Veterans History Project,"Library of Congress, American Folklife Center",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8951,-77.0364,English,,war and conflict; military history,War & conflict,2000,,"A congressionally established program that collects and preserves firsthand video and audio interviews, letters, diaries, and photographs of U.S. wartime veterans from World War I through current conflicts.",https://www.loc.gov/vets/,"Library of Congress, American Folklife Center. Veterans History Project. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/vets/.",Many interviews viewable online via the Library of Congress; the full collection is available by research visit.,iwm-sound-archive; korean-war-legacy-foundation; national-wwii-museum-oral-history; vietnam-center-ttu; west-point-center-for-oral-history,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000003,densho-digital-repository,Densho Digital Repository,Densho,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,47.6062,-122.3321,English; Japanese,,migration; incarceration; civil rights,Human rights & justice; Migration & displacement,1996,,"Densho preserves and freely shares video oral history interviews with Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated during World War II, alongside primary-source documents and photographs from before, during, and after that period.",https://ddr.densho.org/,Densho. Densho Digital Repository. Retrieved from https://ddr.densho.org/.,Freely accessible online.,japanese-american-national-museum; the-historymakers,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000004,usc-shoah-foundation-vha,Visual History Archive,USC Shoah Foundation,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.0224,-118.2851,English; Hebrew; Russian; Polish; Multiple languages,multiple other languages,genocide; Holocaust; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice,1994,,"Founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994, the Visual History Archive holds tens of thousands of video testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and later genocides, including in Rwanda, Armenia, Cambodia, and Nanjing.",https://sfi.usc.edu/vha,USC Shoah Foundation. Visual History Archive. Retrieved from https://sfi.usc.edu/vha.,Full testimonies require registration through partner institutions or educational access via IWitness; some clips are public.,a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland; armenian-film-foundation; fortunoff-video-archive; freedom-collection; preserve-the-baltimore-uprising; the-outwords-archive; yad-vashem-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000005,ralph-rinzler-folklife-archives,Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections,Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8951,-77.0364,English; Multiple languages,multiple,folklife; music; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1967,,"Holds field recordings, oral history interviews, and documentation connected to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, spanning traditions from the United States and around the world.",https://folklife.si.edu/archives,Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Retrieved from https://folklife.si.edu/archives.,,association-cultural-equity-lomax; berlin-phonogramm-archiv; oral-history-of-american-music; slave-narratives-a-folk-history-of-slavery-in-the,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000006,nctr-residential-schools,National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation,University of Manitoba,Canada,CA,Americas,Northern America,49.8951,-97.1384,English; French; Indigenous languages of the Americas,Indigenous languages,indigenous history; human rights; residential schools,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Human rights & justice,2007,,"The permanent home for the statements, documents, and video testimony gathered by Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission from Survivors of the residential school system.",https://nctr.ca/,University of Manitoba. National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Retrieved from https://nctr.ca/.,,doris-duke-utah-oral-history,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000007,museu-da-pessoa,Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person),Museu da Pessoa,Brazil,BR,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-23.5505,-46.6333,Portuguese,,everyday life; migration; labor history,Labor; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1991,,"A collaborative virtual museum of life stories founded in Sao Paulo in 1991, holding tens of thousands of personal narratives documenting migration, work, and community memory across Brazil.",https://museudapessoa.org/,Museu da Pessoa. Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person). Retrieved from https://museudapessoa.org/.,,cpdoc-fgv-brazil,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000008,cnmh-colombia,Human Rights and Historical Memory Virtual Archive,Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica,Colombia,CO,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,4.711,-74.0721,Spanish,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2011,,"Colombia's national public institution charged with collecting oral testimony and documentation related to the country's decades-long armed conflict, made accessible through its virtual human-rights archive.",https://www.archivodelosddhh.gov.co/,Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica. Human Rights and Historical Memory Virtual Archive. Retrieved from https://www.archivodelosddhh.gov.co/.,,lugar-de-la-memoria-peru; memoria-abierta-argentina; museo-palabra-imagen-el-salvador,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000009,memoria-abierta-argentina,Archivo Oral de Memoria Abierta,Memoria Abierta,Argentina,AR,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-34.6037,-58.3816,Spanish,,state terrorism; human rights; memory,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice; Memory & community,1999,,An alliance of Argentine human rights organizations whose oral archive gathers testimony from people affected by state terrorism during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship and the resistance to it.,https://memoriaabierta.org.ar/wp/archivo-oral/,Memoria Abierta. Archivo Oral de Memoria Abierta. Retrieved from https://memoriaabierta.org.ar/wp/archivo-oral/.,,cnmh-colombia; museo-memoria-chile; museo-palabra-imagen-el-salvador,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000010,bl-national-life-stories,National Life Stories,British Library,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.5074,-0.1278,English,,social history; labor history; science,"History & politics; Labor; Science, environment & disaster",1987,,"An oral history charity based at the British Library that has recorded in-depth biographical interviews since 1987 across industry, science, the arts, and public life, preserved within the British Library Sound Archive.",https://www.bl.uk/about/projects/national-life-stories,British Library. National Life Stories. Retrieved from https://www.bl.uk/about/projects/national-life-stories.,,iwm-sound-archive; warwick-modern-records-centre,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000011,tobar-an-dualchais,Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o Riches,"School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh",United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,55.9533,-3.1883,Scottish Gaelic; Scots; English,,oral tradition; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1930,,"Digitized recordings from the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies Archives and partner collections, offering thousands of songs, stories, and oral history recorded across Scotland from the 1930s onward.",https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/,"School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh. Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o Riches. Retrieved from https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/.",,association-cultural-equity-lomax; duchas-national-folklore-collection; estonian-folklore-archives; finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000012,duchas-national-folklore-collection,National Folklore Collection (Duchas),University College Dublin,Ireland,IE,Europe,Northern Europe,53.3498,-6.2603,Irish; English,,folklore; oral tradition,Oral tradition & folklore,1935,,"One of Europe's largest folklore archives, held at University College Dublin and digitized via duchas.ie, including the 1930s Schools' Collection of oral tradition gathered by schoolchildren and thousands of hours of sound recordings.",https://www.duchas.ie/en,University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection (Duchas). Retrieved from https://www.duchas.ie/en.,,finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive; tobar-an-dualchais,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000013,memory-of-nations-czech,Memory of Nations,Post Bellum,Czech Republic,CZ,Europe,Eastern Europe,50.0755,14.4378,Czech; Slovak; English,,totalitarianism; war and conflict; political history,Genocide & mass violence; History & politics; War & conflict,2001,,"Built by the non-profit Post Bellum, this online database holds thousands of testimonies from witnesses of 20th-century totalitarian regimes in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, including WWII, the Holocaust, and communist-era persecution.",https://www.memoryofnations.eu/en,Post Bellum. Memory of Nations. Retrieved from https://www.memoryofnations.eu/en.,,european-solidarity-centre-archive; karta-center-poland; osa-archivum-budapest; yahad-in-unum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000014,1947-partition-archive,The 1947 Partition Archive,The 1947 Partition Archive,India,IN,Asia,Southern Asia,28.6139,77.209,English; Hindi; Urdu; Punjabi; Bengali; Gujarati; Sindhi,,migration; Partition; displacement,Migration & displacement,2010,,"A crowd-sourced oral history project, founded in Berkeley in 2010, that has recorded over 12,000 witness accounts of the 1947 Partition of British India from survivors across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the diaspora.",https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/,The 1947 Partition Archive. The 1947 Partition Archive. Retrieved from https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/.,,citizens-archive-pakistan; nehru-memorial-oral-history,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000015,hiroshima-peace-memorial-testimony,A-bomb Survivor Testimony Archive,Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum,Japan,JP,Asia,Eastern Asia,34.3955,132.4536,Japanese; English,,war and conflict; nuclear history; peace,War & conflict,1986,,"Video testimonies of hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) recorded by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum since 1986, documenting firsthand accounts of the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath.",https://hpmm-db.jp/testify_en/,Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. A-bomb Survivor Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://hpmm-db.jp/testify_en/.,,nagasaki-peace-memorial-testimonies; okinawa-peace-memorial-museum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000016,dccam-oral-history,Documentation Center of Cambodia Oral History Project,Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam),Cambodia,KH,Asia,South-eastern Asia,11.5564,104.9282,Khmer; English,,genocide; war and conflict; transitional justice,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1995,,"DC-Cam documents the history of the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) through survivor and perpetrator testimony, including an oral history project tied to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.",https://www.dccam.org/,Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam). Documentation Center of Cambodia Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.dccam.org/.,,genocide-archive-rwanda; khmer-legacies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000017,palestinian-oral-history-archive,Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA),"American University of Beirut, Issam Fares Institute",Lebanon,LB,Asia,Western Asia,33.8938,35.5018,Arabic,,displacement; refugees; Nakba,Migration & displacement,2011,,"Based at the American University of Beirut, POHA holds over 1,000 hours of testimony from first-generation Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, documenting memories of pre-1948 Palestine and subsequent displacement.",https://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Pages/poha.aspx,"American University of Beirut, Issam Fares Institute. Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA). Retrieved from https://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Pages/poha.aspx.",,ips-narrating-palestine; umam-documentation-research; zochrot-nakba-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000018,aiatsis-collection,AIATSIS Collection,Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies,Australia,AU,Oceania,Australia and New Zealand,-35.2809,149.13,English; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages,,indigenous history; oral tradition; language documentation,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1964,,"Australia's national collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage, including decades of oral history interviews and language recordings gathered in partnership with Indigenous communities.",https://aiatsis.gov.au/collection,Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. AIATSIS Collection. Retrieved from https://aiatsis.gov.au/collection.,,nga-taonga-sound-vision; paradisec-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000019,nga-taonga-sound-vision,Nga Taonga Sound & Vision,Nga Taonga Sound & Vision,New Zealand,NZ,Oceania,Australia and New Zealand,-41.2865,174.7762,English; Māori,,broadcast history; oral tradition; national memory,"Memory & community; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1988,,"Aotearoa New Zealand's audiovisual archive, formed from the merger of the Nga Taonga Korero sound archive, the Television New Zealand Archive, and the New Zealand Film Archive, preserving over a century of recorded sound and moving image.",https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/,Nga Taonga Sound & Vision. Nga Taonga Sound & Vision. Retrieved from https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/.,,aiatsis-collection,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000020,saha-oral-history,SAHA Oral History Collections,South African History Archive,South Africa,ZA,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-26.2041,28.0473,English; Afrikaans; Zulu; Xhosa,,apartheid; human rights; resistance history,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1988,,"An independent archive founded by anti-apartheid activists, SAHA holds oral history interviews and documents relating to the struggle against apartheid and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.",https://www.saha.org.za/collections/oral_history.htm,South African History Archive. SAHA Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.saha.org.za/collections/oral_history.htm.,,district-six-museum; gala-queer-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000021,district-six-museum,District Six Museum Sound Archive,District Six Museum,South Africa,ZA,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-33.9249,18.4241,English; Afrikaans,,forced removal; urban history; memory,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1994,,"The District Six Museum's Sound Archive collects recorded interviews with former residents forcibly removed from Cape Town's District Six under apartheid's Group Areas Act, preserving memories of the destroyed community.",https://www.districtsix.co.za/collections/,District Six Museum. District Six Museum Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.districtsix.co.za/collections/.,,saha-oral-history,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000022,genocide-archive-rwanda,Genocide Archive of Rwanda,Aegis Trust / National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide,Rwanda,RW,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-1.9403,29.8739,Kinyarwanda; French; English,,genocide; transitional justice; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice,2010,,"A digital archive holding over 8,000 survivor and witness testimonies, Gacaca court records, and memorial documentation of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, built with the University of Texas Libraries.",https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/,Aegis Trust / National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide. Genocide Archive of Rwanda. Retrieved from https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/.,Freely accessible online with a searchable video player.,dccam-oral-history; khmer-legacies,https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/index.php/Category:Survivor_Testimonies,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000023,celhto-oral-tradition-archive,CELHTO Oral Tradition Archive,Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale (African Union),Niger,NE,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,13.5127,2.1128,Hausa; Zarma; Fulfulde; Tamasheq; French,,oral tradition; history; linguistics,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1968,,"An African Union research center based in Niamey since 1968 (created with UNESCO support as the Regional Center for Oral Tradition), CELHTO collects, studies, and preserves oral traditions and languages from across Africa on audio, video, and written media.",https://www.celhto.org/,Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale (African Union). CELHTO Oral Tradition Archive. Retrieved from https://www.celhto.org/.,,fondation-hampate-ba; irsh-niamey-boubou-hama; sahel-sounds-field-recordings,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000024,irsh-niamey-boubou-hama,Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines,Universite Abdou Moumouni de Niamey,Niger,NE,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,13.5127,2.1128,Hausa; Zarma; French; Arabic,,oral tradition; manuscripts; history,History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,1944,,"Niger's oldest research institution, IRSH grew out of a regional branch of IFAN and continues the documentation work begun by historian Boubou Hama, whose collection of oral sources and manuscripts helped found Niger's tradition of oral-history-based scholarship.",https://irsh-uam.com/,Universite Abdou Moumouni de Niamey. Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines. Retrieved from https://irsh-uam.com/.,,celhto-oral-tradition-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000025,bird-mali-collections,Charles S. Bird Mali Collections,"Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University",Mali,ML,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,12.6392,-8.0029,Bambara,,oral tradition; epic performance; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1960,2000,"Field recordings made by linguist Charles S. Bird together with Malian collaborators, capturing griot performances of the Epic of Sunjata, kora and donso ngoni music, and hunters' songs unavailable in any other archive.",https://libraries.indiana.edu/bird-mali,"Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University. Charles S. Bird Mali Collections. Retrieved from https://libraries.indiana.edu/bird-mali.",,fondation-hampate-ba; sahel-sounds-field-recordings,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000026,sosso-bala-cultural-space,Cultural Space of Sosso-Bala,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Ministry of Culture of Guinea,Guinea,GN,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,11.42,-9.16,Maninka; French,,oral tradition; griot heritage; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",2001,,"UNESCO-recognized heritage centered on the Sosso-Bala, a sacred 13th-century balafon kept in the village of Nyagassola, whose annual ceremonial playing carries the oral epic tradition of the Sunjata story through griot performance.",https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/cultural-space-of-sosso-bala-00009,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Ministry of Culture of Guinea. Cultural Space of Sosso-Bala. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/cultural-space-of-sosso-bala-00009.,,ifa-divination-system; moorish-epic-theydinn,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000027,ifa-divination-system,Ifa Divination System,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba babalawo tradition,Nigeria,NG,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,7.4905,4.5521,Yoruba,,oral tradition; divination; religion,Oral tradition & folklore; Religion & belief,2005,,A UNESCO-listed oral literary corpus (the Odu Ifa) of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria: an enormous body of verses transmitted orally by babalawo priests and drawn upon in divination practice.,https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ifa-divination-system-00146,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba babalawo tradition. Ifa Divination System. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ifa-divination-system-00146.,,gelede-oral-heritage; sosso-bala-cultural-space,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000028,gelede-oral-heritage,Oral Heritage of Gelede,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba-Nago communities,Benin,BJ,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,7.3667,2.6,Yoruba,,oral tradition; masquerade; women's history,Gender & sexuality; Oral tradition & folklore,2001,,"A UNESCO-listed oral and performance tradition of the Yoruba-Nago communities spanning Benin, Nigeria, and Togo, combining masked dance with sung epic and satirical verse that honors women's role in social life.",https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/oral-heritage-of-gelede-00002,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba-Nago communities. Oral Heritage of Gelede. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/oral-heritage-of-gelede-00002.,,ifa-divination-system,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000029,ifan-dakar-sound-archives,IFAN Sound Archives,"Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop",Senegal,SN,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,14.6928,-17.4467,Wolof; French; Multiple languages,multiple Senegalese languages,oral tradition; music; colonial history,"Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1938,,"Founded in Dakar in 1938, IFAN holds a large sound archive of West African oral traditions, songs, and epics, including over 1,400 digitized cassette recordings and historic WWI-era recordings of Senegalese soldiers.",https://ifan.ucad.sn/,"Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop. IFAN Sound Archives. Retrieved from https://ifan.ucad.sn/.",,nketia-archives-ghana; sahel-sounds-field-recordings,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000030,nketia-archives-ghana,J.H. Kwabena Nketia Archives,"Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana",Ghana,GH,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,5.6494,-0.187,Twi; Ga; Ewe; English; Multiple languages,multiple Ghanaian languages,oral tradition; music; ethnomusicology,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1952,,"Named for ethnomusicologist J.H. Kwabena Nketia, this archive at the University of Ghana holds the largest and most systematic set of recordings by any African ethnomusicologist: over six decades of field recordings documenting music, oral tradition, and performance across Ghana.",https://ias.ug.edu.gh/content/jh-kwabena-nketia-archives,"Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. J.H. Kwabena Nketia Archives. Retrieved from https://ias.ug.edu.gh/content/jh-kwabena-nketia-archives.",,ifan-dakar-sound-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000031,sahel-sounds-field-recordings,Sahel Sounds Field Recordings Archive,Sahel Sounds,Niger,NE,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,13.5127,2.1128,Hausa; Zarma; Tamasheq; French; Arabic,,oral tradition; music; griot heritage,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",2009,,"An independent record label and blog run by ethnomusicologist Christopher Kirkley since 2009, documenting music and everyday sound across Niger, Mali, and Mauritania, including cellphone-shared recordings, radio broadcasts, and village field recordings published openly online.",https://blog.sahelsounds.com/,Sahel Sounds. Field Recordings from the Sahel. Retrieved from https://blog.sahelsounds.com/.,Freely accessible online via blog and Bandcamp releases.,bird-mali-collections; celhto-oral-tradition-archive; ifan-dakar-sound-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000032,ibadan-african-studies-audiovisual,African Studies Ibadan Audiovisual and Arabic Manuscripts Archive,"Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan",Nigeria,NG,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,7.3775,3.947,Yoruba; Hausa; English; Arabic,,oral tradition; history; language documentation,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1962,,"Founded in 1962, the Institute has long recorded festivals, songs, and oral traditions across Nigeria; a 2021 Arcadia-funded project is digitizing its audiovisual and Arabic-manuscript holdings from West Africa's decolonization period.",https://ui.edu.ng/content/institute-african-studies,"Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. African Studies Ibadan Audiovisual and Arabic Manuscripts Archive. Retrieved from https://ui.edu.ng/content/institute-african-studies.",In-person access at the Institute; digitized portions being released via the Endangered Archives Programme.,endangered-archives-programme,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000033,zimbabwe-archives-oral-history,Oral History Programme,National Archives of Zimbabwe,Zimbabwe,ZW,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-17.8292,31.0522,Shona; Ndebele; English,,oral tradition; war and conflict; national memory,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,1935,,"Zimbabwe's National Archives, established in 1935, runs an Oral History programme with the National Museums and Monuments and the University of Zimbabwe recording testimony of the First and Second Chimurenga liberation struggles in English and local languages.",https://www.archives.gov.zw/,National Archives of Zimbabwe. Oral History Programme. Retrieved from https://www.archives.gov.zw/.,In-person/reading-room access; some liberation-history recordings referenced in public reporting.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000034,kenya-national-archives-oral-history,Oral History Collections,Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service,Kenya,KE,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-1.2833,36.8167,Swahili; English; Multiple languages,multiple Kenyan languages,oral tradition; colonial history; national memory,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1965,,"Kenya's national archive, established by Act of Parliament in 1965, holds audio cassette recordings of oral histories and folk songs alongside colonial records, government files, and papers of prominent Kenyans.",https://www.archives.go.ke/homepage,Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service. Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.archives.go.ke/homepage.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000035,institute-ethiopian-studies,Institute of Ethiopian Studies Audiovisual Archive,Addis Ababa University,Ethiopia,ET,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,9.03,38.7633,Amharic; Ge'ez; Oromo; Multiple languages,multiple Ethiopian languages,oral tradition; ethnomusicology; manuscripts,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1963,,"Established in 1963, the Institute holds the world's largest single collection of Ethiopian manuscripts alongside an Audiovisual Materials section with ethnomusicological field recordings documenting Ethiopia's oral and musical traditions.",https://aau.edu.et/institute/IES,"Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University. Audiovisual Archive. Retrieved from https://aau.edu.et/institute/IES.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000036,mosireen-858-archive,858: An Archive of Resistance,Mosireen Collective,Egypt,EG,Africa,Northern Africa,30.0444,31.2357,Arabic; English,,war and conflict; human rights; political history,History & politics; Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2011,,"A video collective formed during the 2011 Egyptian revolution released 858 hours of raw, timestamped footage of protests and state violence, freely licensed and published as a public archive of firsthand documentation and voice.",https://858.ma/,Mosireen Collective. 858: An Archive of Resistance. Retrieved from https://858.ma/.,"Freely accessible online, indexed and searchable video.",,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000037,ircam-amazigh-culture,Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe,Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe (IRCAM),Morocco,MA,Africa,Northern Africa,34.0209,-6.8416,Tamazight; Arabic; French,,oral tradition; language documentation; history,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2001,,"Founded by royal decree in 2001, IRCAM researches and promotes Amazigh (Berber) language and culture across Morocco, including documentation of oral literature and dialects through its research centres in Rabat.",https://www.ircam.ma/,Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe. Retrieved from https://www.ircam.ma/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000038,fondation-hampate-ba,Fondation Amadou Hampâté Bâ,Fondation Amadou Hampâté Bâ,Côte d'Ivoire,CI,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,5.3599,-3.9906,French; Fulfulde; Bambara,,oral tradition; history; griot heritage,History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,2002,,"Based in Abidjan, this foundation preserves the personal archive of Malian writer and ethnologist Amadou Hampate Ba, a lifelong advocate for African oral tradition, including audiovisual recordings and manuscripts now being digitized with UNESCO support.",https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/amadou-hampate-ba,Fondation Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Retrieved via UNESCO Memory of the World: https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/amadou-hampate-ba.,In-person access in Abidjan; digitization and online access underway via UNESCO partnership.,bird-mali-collections; celhto-oral-tradition-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000039,moorish-epic-theydinn,Moorish Epic T'heydinn,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Mauritanian griot (iggawin) tradition,Mauritania,MR,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,18.0735,-15.9582,Hassaniya Arabic,,oral tradition; griot heritage; history,History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,2011,,"A UNESCO-listed oral epic tradition of Mauritania's Moorish tribes, recited by griot (iggawin) families accompanied by lute, harp, and kettledrum, functioning as each tribe's sung and spoken oral history handed down through generations.",https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/moorish-epic-t-heydinn-00524,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Moorish Epic T'heydinn. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/moorish-epic-t-heydinn-00524.,,sosso-bala-cultural-space,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000040,refugee-law-project-uganda,Documentation of War-Affected Communities,"Refugee Law Project, Makerere University",Uganda,UG,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,0.3476,32.5825,English; Acholi; Luo,,war and conflict; transitional justice; human rights,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1999,,"Founded in 1999 as an outreach project of Makerere University's law school, the Refugee Law Project documents testimony and advocates for transitional justice for communities affected by conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda.",https://www.refugeelawproject.org/,"Refugee Law Project, Makerere University. Retrieved from https://www.refugeelawproject.org/.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000041,zochrot-nakba-testimonies,Nakba Survivor Testimonies,Zochrot,Israel,IL,Asia,Western Asia,32.0853,34.7818,Arabic; Hebrew,,Nakba; displacement; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; Migration & displacement,2002,,"An Israeli NGO founded in 2002 that collects and publishes video testimonies from Palestinian refugees who witnessed the 1948 Nakba, alongside accounts from Israelis who took part in the 1948 war, to promote public accountability and the right of return.",https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/all/en,Zochrot. Nakba Survivor Testimonies. Retrieved from https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/all/en.,"Freely accessible online, video testimonies with searchable database.",ips-narrating-palestine; palestinian-oral-history-archive,https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/all/en,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000042,umam-documentation-research,UMAM Documentation & Research,UMAM Documentation & Research,Lebanon,LB,Asia,Western Asia,33.8464,35.4936,Arabic; French; English,,war and conflict; memory and reconciliation; human rights,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2004,,"A nonprofit founded in 2004 in Beirut's southern suburbs that collects documents, interviews, and narratives relating to the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, working to break cycles of blame through public engagement with contested memory.",https://www.umam-dr.org/,UMAM Documentation & Research. Retrieved from https://www.umam-dr.org/.,,palestinian-oral-history-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000043,ips-narrating-palestine,Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project,Institute for Palestine Studies,Lebanon,LB,Asia,Western Asia,33.8938,35.5018,Arabic; English,,Nakba; displacement; oral tradition,Migration & displacement; Oral tradition & folklore,2011,,"Launched in 2011, this project of the Beirut-based Institute for Palestine Studies digitizes and catalogs Palestinian oral history testimonies gathered by researchers across the region, from Ramallah and Haifa to Beirut, Damascus, and Amman.",https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/227700,Institute for Palestine Studies. Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project. Retrieved from https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/227700.,,palestinian-oral-history-archive; zochrot-nakba-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000044,institut-kurde-paris,Kurdish Digital Library and Audio Archive,Institut kurde de Paris,France,FR,Europe,Western Europe,48.8566,2.3522,Kurdish; French,"Kurdish (Kurmanji, Sorani)",language documentation; oral tradition; history,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1983,,"An independent Kurdish cultural foundation created in Paris in 1983 that maintains a library and audio archive of Kurdish music, spoken recordings, and periodicals aimed at preserving Kurdish language and cultural memory.",https://www.institutkurde.org/,Institut kurde de Paris. Retrieved from https://www.institutkurde.org/.,,pangloss-collection,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000045,yad-vashem-testimonies,Survivor Testimonies Collection,Yad Vashem,Israel,IL,Asia,Western Asia,31.7736,35.175,Hebrew; English; Multiple languages,multiple languages,Holocaust; genocide; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice,1953,,"Israel's official Holocaust remembrance authority, established by law in 1953, holds over 125,000 survivor testimonies (written, audio, and video) among more than 210 million pages of Holocaust documentation, with thousands available online.",https://www.yadvashem.org/archive/about/testimonies.html,Yad Vashem. Survivor Testimonies Collection. Retrieved from https://www.yadvashem.org/archive/about/testimonies.html.,Thousands of full testimonies freely viewable online; broader archive by researcher request.,armenian-film-foundation; david-boder-voices-of-holocaust; fortunoff-video-archive; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; yahad-in-unum,https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/video-testimonies.html,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000046,harvard-iranian-oral-history,Iranian Oral History Project,Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies,Iran,IR,Asia,Southern Asia,35.6892,51.389,Persian; English,,political history; history; memory and reconciliation,History & politics; Human rights & justice,1981,,"Launched at Harvard in 1981 by historian Habib Ladjevardi, this project recorded personal accounts of 134 political leaders and eyewitnesses to major events in Iranian history from the 1920s through the 1980s, now digitized and streamed publicly.",https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/projects/iohp,Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Iranian Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/projects/iohp.,,fis-oral-history-of-iran,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000047,odysseo-generiques-oral-archives,Oral Archives of Immigration History (Odysseo),Genériques / Les Amis de Génériques,France,FR,Europe,Western Europe,48.8566,2.3522,French; Arabic; Multiple languages,multiple immigrant languages,migration; displacement; labor history,Labor; Migration & displacement,1987,,"Founded in 1987, the association Genériques built the Odysseo portal cataloguing sources on immigration to France since 1800, including an oral-history campaign recording dozens of witnesses to 1968-1988 immigrant mobilization and anti-discrimination struggles.",https://www.lesamisdegeneriques.org/,Genériques. Oral Archives of Immigration History. Retrieved from https://www.lesamisdegeneriques.org/.,Digitized sources freely searchable online via the Odysseo portal.,domid-migration-museum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000048,iwm-sound-archive,Sound Archive,Imperial War Museums,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.4954,-0.1098,English; Multiple languages,multiple languages,war and conflict; military history; oral tradition,Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,1972,,"Established in 1972 as the Department of Sound Records, IWM's Sound Archive is the world's largest oral history archive of its kind, with over 60,000 hours of interviews covering conflicts since 1914 in more than 15 languages.",https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound,Imperial War Museums. Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound.,Many recordings streamable online; full collection via research room visit.,bl-national-life-stories; fortunoff-video-archive; national-wwii-museum-oral-history; veterans-history-project,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000049,prisons-memory-archive,Prisons Memory Archive,Prisons Memory Archive / Public Record Office of Northern Ireland,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,54.5973,-5.9301,English,,war and conflict; memory and reconciliation; human rights,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2006,2007,"Between 2006 and 2007, filmmakers recorded 161 filmed oral histories with former prisoners, officers, chaplains, and visitors inside Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison, capturing life-storytelling about Northern Ireland's Troubles.",https://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/,Prisons Memory Archive. Retrieved from https://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/.,Selected extracts online; full collection held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000050,ajr-refugee-voices,AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive,Association of Jewish Refugees,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.5074,-0.1278,English; German,,Holocaust; migration; displacement,Genocide & mass violence; Migration & displacement,2003,,"Commissioned in 2003, this UK archive holds 310 filmed interviews totalling 450 hours with Jewish refugees and survivors of Nazi Europe who rebuilt their lives in Britain, with summaries and clips available and full interviews via research partners.",https://www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/,Association of Jewish Refugees. Refugee Voices Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/.,Summaries and short clips online; full unedited interviews via institutional partners.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000051,warwick-modern-records-centre,Working Class and Labour Oral History Archive,"Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick",United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,52.3793,-1.561,English,,labor history; social history; political history,History & politics; Labor,1973,,"Established in 1973, the Modern Records Centre holds Britain's largest archive of trade union records and industrial relations history, including oral history recordings documenting the working-class labour movement.",https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/,"Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Retrieved from https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/.",,bl-national-life-stories; walter-reuther-library,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000052,national-library-wales-sound-archive,Screen and Sound Archive,National Library of Wales,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,52.4153,-4.0829,Welsh; English,,oral tradition; migration; social history,History & politics; Migration & displacement; Oral tradition & folklore,1898,,"The National Library of Wales's Screen and Sound Archive preserves recordings of Welsh life dating from 1898 onward, including oral history interviews with Welsh migrants to North America and Patagonia, dialect recordings, and industrial-community testimony.",https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/about-our-collections/screen-sound-archive,National Library of Wales. Screen and Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/about-our-collections/screen-sound-archive.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000053,european-solidarity-centre-archive,European Solidarity Centre Archive,European Solidarity Centre,Poland,PL,Europe,Eastern Europe,54.352,18.6466,Polish; English,,labor history; political history; totalitarianism,Genocide & mass violence; History & politics; Labor,2008,,"Operating since 2008 in Gdansk, this archive collects documents, photographs, and personal testimony documenting Poland's Solidarity trade union movement and the wider anti-communist opposition in Eastern Europe from 1970 to 1989.",https://ecs.gda.pl/en/archive/,European Solidarity Centre. Archive. Retrieved from https://ecs.gda.pl/en/archive/.,,karta-center-poland; memory-of-nations-czech,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000054,karta-center-poland,Ośrodek KARTA Oral History Collections,KARTA Center Foundation,Poland,PL,Europe,Eastern Europe,52.2148,21.0128,Polish; Russian; Ukrainian,,totalitarianism; war and conflict; political history,Genocide & mass violence; History & politics; War & conflict,1982,,"Growing out of an underground publishing project launched in early 1982 during martial law, Poland's largest community archive now holds oral history recordings and biographical accounts documenting Nazi and Soviet occupation, deportation, and communist-era persecution.",https://karta.org.pl/,KARTA Center Foundation. Retrieved from https://karta.org.pl/.,,european-solidarity-centre-archive; memory-of-nations-czech; osa-archivum-budapest,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000055,osa-archivum-budapest,Blinken OSA Archivum,Central European University,Hungary,HU,Europe,Eastern Europe,47.4979,19.0402,English; Hungarian; Russian,,totalitarianism; human rights; political history,Genocide & mass violence; History & politics; Human rights & justice,1995,,"Founded by George Soros in 1995, this Budapest archive holds Cold War-era records including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty materials and oral history interviews with former Soviet dissidents and Communist Party officials.",https://archivum.org/,"Blinken OSA Archivum, Central European University. Retrieved from https://archivum.org/.",,karta-center-poland; memory-of-nations-czech,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000056,pcrc-ordinary-heroes,Ordinary Heroes Digital Archive,Post-Conflict Research Center,Bosnia and Herzegovina,BA,Europe,Southern Europe,43.8563,18.4131,Bosnian,,war and conflict; memory and reconciliation; human rights,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2011,,"Founded in Sarajevo in 2011, the Post-Conflict Research Center collects testimony of rescuers and survivors from the 1992-95 Bosnian War through its Ordinary Heroes peacebuilding programme, preserving oral testimonies, letters, and diaries.",https://p-crc.org/our-work/post-conflict-research/rescue-and-survivor-testemonials/ordinary-heroes-digital-archive/,Post-Conflict Research Center. Ordinary Heroes Digital Archive. Retrieved from https://p-crc.org/our-work/post-conflict-research/rescue-and-survivor-testemonials/ordinary-heroes-digital-archive/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000057,yahad-in-unum,Holocaust by Bullets Testimony Archive,Yahad-In Unum,France,FR,Europe,Western Europe,48.8566,2.3522,French; Ukrainian; Russian; Polish; Multiple languages,multiple languages,Holocaust; genocide; war and conflict,Genocide & mass violence; War & conflict,2004,,"Founded in 2004 by Father Patrick Desbois, this Paris-based organization has recorded over 7,000 eyewitness interviews across Central and Eastern Europe documenting mass shootings of Jews during the Holocaust, identifying more than 3,000 execution sites.",https://www.yahadinunum.org/,Yahad-In Unum. Holocaust by Bullets Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://www.yahadinunum.org/.,Archive being transferred to Yad Vashem for public research access.,memory-of-nations-czech; yad-vashem-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000058,berlin-phonogramm-archiv,Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv,"Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin",Germany,DE,Europe,Western Europe,52.5063,13.2066,Multiple languages,multiple world languages,oral tradition; ethnomusicology; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1893,1954,"One of the world's oldest sound archives, the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv preserves about 30,000 wax cylinder recordings made between 1893 and 1954 documenting music and spoken traditions from cultures around the globe, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.",https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/ethnologisches-museum/collection-research/research/sound-recordings-made-by-the-prussian-phonographic-commission/,"Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv. Retrieved from https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/ethnologisches-museum/collection-research/research/sound-recordings-made-by-the-prussian-phonographic-commission/.",,association-cultural-equity-lomax; austria-phonogrammarchiv; ralph-rinzler-folklife-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000059,romarchive,RomArchive,RomArchive e.V.,Germany,DE,Europe,Western Europe,52.52,13.405,Romani; German; English,,oral tradition; genocide; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice; Oral tradition & folklore,2019,,"Launched online in January 2019 after a five-year international project, RomArchive is a digital archive of Roma and Sinti arts and history told by Roma and Sinti themselves, including a dedicated section of oral testimonies from victims of Nazi persecution.",https://www.romarchive.eu/en/,RomArchive. Retrieved from https://www.romarchive.eu/en/.,Freely accessible online.,austria-phonogrammarchiv,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000060,finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive,Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society,Finnish Literature Society (SKS),Finland,FI,Europe,Northern Europe,60.1699,24.9384,Finnish; Karelian,,oral tradition; folklife; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1937,,"Consolidated in 1937 from folklore collections begun when the Society was founded in 1831, this archive holds around 4 million folklore items and 30,000 hours of sound and video, including the field poetry that formed the basis of the Finnish epic Kalevala.",https://www.finlit.fi/en/archives/,Finnish Literature Society (SKS). Folklore Archives. Retrieved from https://www.finlit.fi/en/archives/.,,duchas-national-folklore-collection; estonian-folklore-archives; tobar-an-dualchais,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000061,estonian-folklore-archives,Estonian Folklore Archives,Estonian Literary Museum,Estonia,EE,Europe,Northern Europe,58.3776,26.729,Estonian; Võro; Seto,,oral tradition; folklife; language documentation,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1927,,"Founded in Tartu in 1927, Estonia's central folklore archive holds roughly 1.5 million manuscript pages, 188,000 sound recordings, and 1,700 films documenting Estonian and Seto folk song, storytelling, and oral tradition.",https://www.kirmus.ee/en/about-us/departments/estonian-folklore-archives,Estonian Literary Museum. Estonian Folklore Archives. Retrieved from https://www.kirmus.ee/en/about-us/departments/estonian-folklore-archives.,,finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive; tobar-an-dualchais,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000062,georgia-traditional-polyphony-center,International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony,Tbilisi Vano Sarajishvili State Conservatoire,Georgia,GE,Asia,Western Asia,41.71,44.79,Georgian,,oral tradition; music; ethnomusicology,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",2002,,"Established with UNESCO support in 2002-2003, this Tbilisi research centre studies and documents Georgian traditional vocal polyphony, an oral musical tradition inscribed on UNESCO's list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.",https://polyphony.ge/en/home-2/,"International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony, Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Retrieved from https://polyphony.ge/en/home-2/.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000063,ahotsak-basque-oral-archive,Ahotsak.eus Basque Oral Archive,Badihardugu Association,Spain,ES,Europe,Southern Europe,43.263,-2.935,Basque; Spanish; French,,oral tradition; language documentation; social history,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2003,,"Since 2003, this project has video-recorded interviews with more than 6,000 Basque speakers over age 75 across Spain and France, documenting Basque dialects, local history, and 20th-century historical memory.",https://ahotsak.eus/english/,Badihardugu Association. Ahotsak.eus Basque Oral Archive. Retrieved from https://ahotsak.eus/english/.,"Freely accessible online, catalogued by topic and town.",,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000064,isof-sweden-folklore,"Dialect, Name, and Folklore Archives",Institutet för sprak och folkminnen (Isof),Sweden,SE,Europe,Northern Europe,59.8586,17.6389,Swedish; Sámi languages; Finnish,Sami,oral tradition; folklife; language documentation,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2006,,"Sweden's government agency for language and folklore, in its current form since a 2006 institutional merger, holds archives of dialect recordings, folk music, and folklore gathered from across the country and Swedish-speaking areas abroad.",https://www.isof.se/,Institutet för sprak och folkminnen (Isof). Retrieved from https://www.isof.se/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000065,austria-phonogrammarchiv,Phonogrammarchiv,Austrian Academy of Sciences,Austria,AT,Europe,Western Europe,48.2082,16.3738,Multiple languages,multiple world languages,oral tradition; ethnomusicology; language documentation,"Language & linguistics; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1899,,"Founded in 1899, the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv is the world's oldest audiovisual research archive, holding field recordings of languages, dialects, and non-European music made chiefly by Austrian scholars, many inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.",https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/phonogrammarchiv/history-of-the-pha,Austrian Academy of Sciences. Phonogrammarchiv. Retrieved from https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/phonogrammarchiv/history-of-the-pha.,,berlin-phonogramm-archiv; romarchive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000066,sami-archives-norway,The Sami Archives,National Archival Services of Norway,Norway,NO,Europe,Northern Europe,69.0125,23.0412,Northern Sámi; Norwegian,,indigenous history; oral tradition; language documentation,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1988,,"Located at the Sami academic park Diehtosiida in Kautokeino, the Sami Archives has preserved material relating to the Sami people since 1988, and since 2005 operates as part of Norway's National Archival Services.",https://www.arkivverket.no/om-oss/samisk-arkiv,National Archival Services of Norway. The Sami Archives. Retrieved from https://www.arkivverket.no/om-oss/samisk-arkiv.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000067,singapore-oral-history-centre,Oral History Centre,National Archives of Singapore,Singapore,SG,Asia,South-eastern Asia,1.2833,103.85,English; Mandarin Chinese; Malay; Tamil,,national memory; everyday life; social history,History & politics; Memory & community,1979,,"Set up in 1979, Singapore's Oral History Centre records life stories and eyewitness accounts documenting the nation's diverse voices, from leaders and innovators to ordinary residents who witnessed historical change.",https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/about-us,National Archives of Singapore. Oral History Centre. Retrieved from https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/about-us.,Interviews searchable online; full recordings subject to interviewee consent.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000068,citizens-archive-pakistan,Oral History Project,Citizens Archive of Pakistan,Pakistan,PK,Asia,Southern Asia,24.8607,67.0011,Urdu; English; Punjabi; Sindhi,,Partition; displacement; migration,Migration & displacement,2007,,"Founded in 2007 in Karachi, this nonprofit's Oral History Project has recorded over 5,000 testimonies, beginning with survivors of the 1947 Partition and expanding to broader South Asian historical narratives.",https://citizensarchive.org/portfolio-item/oral-history-project/,Citizens Archive of Pakistan. Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://citizensarchive.org/portfolio-item/oral-history-project/.,,1947-partition-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000069,nehru-memorial-oral-history,Oral History Division,Nehru Memorial Museum and Library,India,IN,Asia,Southern Asia,28.5921,77.1998,Hindi; English,,political history; history; national memory,History & politics; Memory & community,1966,,"Organized beginning in 1966, this division of India's Nehru Memorial Museum and Library recorded reminiscences of figures connected to Gandhi and Nehru and participants in India's freedom struggle, later expanding to economic and cultural history; 838 transcripts are held.",https://nehruportal.nic.in/oral-history,Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Oral History Division. Retrieved from https://nehruportal.nic.in/oral-history.,,1947-partition-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000070,sparrow-india,SPARROW: Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women,SPARROW,India,IN,Asia,Southern Asia,19.2183,72.8493,Hindi; Tamil; English; Multiple languages,multiple Indian languages,women's history; oral tradition; everyday life,Gender & sexuality; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1988,,"Founded in Mumbai in 1988 by writer C.S. Lakshmi, SPARROW is India's largest archive of women's history, holding oral history recordings, personal papers, photographs, and documentary films centering women's own accounts of social change.",https://www.sparrowonline.org/,SPARROW. Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women. Retrieved from https://www.sparrowonline.org/.,,sophia-smith-voices-of-feminism,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000071,hong-kong-memory-project,Hong Kong Memory Project,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,Hong Kong,HK,Asia,Eastern Asia,22.3193,114.1694,Cantonese; English,,oral tradition; everyday life; national memory,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,2006,,"Begun in 2006, this digital repository gathers oral history and multimedia documentation of Hong Kong's history and culture, covering topics from Kai Tak Airport's neighbourhood to village life and traditional festivals.",https://www.hkmemory.hk/en/index.html,Hong Kong Memory Project. Retrieved from https://www.hkmemory.hk/en/index.html.,Freely accessible online.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000072,shanghai-comfort-women-museum,"Chinese ""Comfort Women"" History Museum and Research Center",Shanghai Normal University,China,CN,Asia,Eastern Asia,31.1631,121.4184,Mandarin Chinese,,war and conflict; women's history; human rights,Gender & sexuality; Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1999,,"Since founding a research center in 1999, historian Su Zhiliang and colleagues have recorded testimony from more than 100 Chinese survivors of Japan's wartime military sexual slavery system, opening a dedicated museum on campus in 2016.",https://www.shnu.edu.cn/,"Shanghai Normal University. Chinese ""Comfort Women"" History Museum and Research Center. Retrieved from https://www.shnu.edu.cn/.",,house-of-sharing-korea,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000073,jeju43-peace-foundation,Jeju 4.3 Archives,Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation,South Korea,KR,Asia,Eastern Asia,33.4996,126.5312,Korean,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2008,,"Established in 2008, this foundation manages Jeju's Peace Memorial Hall and an archive of over 14,600 victim and bereaved-family testimonies documenting the 1947-54 Jeju uprising and massacre, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2025.",http://jeju43peace.org/,Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation. Jeju 4.3 Archives. Retrieved from http://jeju43peace.org/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000074,house-of-sharing-korea,Museum of Sexual Slavery by the Japanese Military,House of Sharing,South Korea,KR,Asia,Eastern Asia,37.4292,127.2145,Korean; English; Japanese,,war and conflict; women's history; human rights,Gender & sexuality; Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1992,,"Founded in 1992 as a residence for surviving Korean 'comfort women,' the House of Sharing includes the world's first museum devoted to wartime sexual slavery, preserving the testimonies, belongings, and artwork of its former residents.",http://www.nanum.org/,House of Sharing. Museum of Sexual Slavery by the Japanese Military. Retrieved from http://www.nanum.org/.,,shanghai-comfort-women-museum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000075,korean-war-legacy-foundation,Korean War Legacy Foundation Interview Archive,Korean War Legacy Foundation,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,43.0481,-76.1474,English; Korean; Multiple languages,multiple UN-participant languages,war and conflict; military history,War & conflict,2005,,"Growing from a 2005 encounter with Syracuse-area veterans, this foundation built the world's largest archive of Korean War oral histories, with over 1,500 recorded interviews of veterans from dozens of participating countries.",https://koreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/,Korean War Legacy Foundation. Interview Archive. Retrieved from https://koreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/.,"Freely accessible online, searchable video library.",veterans-history-project,https://koreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000076,taiwan-human-rights-museum-white-terror,White Terror Oral History Archive,National Human Rights Museum,Taiwan,TW,Asia,Eastern Asia,24.9737,121.5398,Mandarin Chinese; Taiwanese Hokkien,,political history; human rights; memory and reconciliation,History & politics; Human rights & justice,2011,,"A preparatory office founded in 2011 (formally established as a museum in 2018) has recorded oral history interviews with more than 500 political prisoners and their families, documenting Taiwan's 1949-1987 White Terror era of martial-law repression.",https://www.nhrm.gov.tw/w/nhrmEN/About,National Human Rights Museum. White Terror Oral History Archive. Retrieved from https://www.nhrm.gov.tw/w/nhrmEN/About.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000077,vietnam-center-ttu,Oral History Project,"The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,33.5779,-101.8552,English; Vietnamese,,war and conflict; military history; migration,Migration & displacement; War & conflict,1999,,"Since 1999, this project of the world's largest nongovernmental Vietnam War archive has collected over 1,100 oral history interviews with American veterans, Vietnamese allies and opponents, protesters, and family members, available via its Virtual Vietnam Archive.",https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/,"The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University. Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/.",,veterans-history-project,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000078,liberation-war-museum-bangladesh,Liberation War Museum Oral History Archive,Liberation War Museum,Bangladesh,BD,Asia,Southern Asia,23.7797,90.3639,Bengali; English,,war and conflict; national memory; displacement,Memory & community; Migration & displacement; War & conflict,1996,,"Established in Dhaka in 1996, the Liberation War Museum has coordinated student-led oral history collection nationwide, gathering some 70,000 eyewitness accounts of Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War alongside its collection of wartime artifacts.",https://www.liberationwarmuseumbd.org/,Liberation War Museum. Oral History Archive. Retrieved from https://www.liberationwarmuseumbd.org/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000079,nagasaki-peace-memorial-testimonies,Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors,Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims,Japan,JP,Asia,Eastern Asia,32.7736,129.8636,Japanese; English,,war and conflict; nuclear history; peace,War & conflict,2003,,"Opened in 2003, this Nagasaki memorial hall records and preserves video testimony from hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), documenting firsthand accounts of the 1945 atomic bombing and postwar life, alongside a searchable photograph and record database.",https://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/en/,Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims. Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors. Retrieved from https://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/en/.,,hiroshima-peace-memorial-testimony; okinawa-peace-memorial-museum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000080,okinawa-peace-memorial-museum,Battle of Okinawa Survivor Testimonies,Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum,Japan,JP,Asia,Eastern Asia,26.0908,127.7128,Japanese; Okinawan; English,,war and conflict; peace; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1975,,"Established in 1975 in Itoman, this museum has documented written and video testimonies of Battle of Okinawa survivors since its founding, honoring the memory of all who perished in the 1945 battle regardless of nationality or military status.",https://www.peace-museum.okinawa.jp/english/,Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum. Battle of Okinawa Survivor Testimonies. Retrieved from https://www.peace-museum.okinawa.jp/english/.,,hiroshima-peace-memorial-testimony; nagasaki-peace-memorial-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000081,michinoku-shinrokuden,Michinoku Shinrokuden,"International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University",Japan,JP,Asia,Eastern Asia,38.2682,140.8694,Japanese; English,,disaster and survivor testimony; everyday life; memory and reconciliation,"Human rights & justice; Memory & community; Science, environment & disaster",2011,,"Launched in September 2011, this Tohoku University digital archive collects photographs, records, and firsthand testimonies and stories of the thoughts and memories of survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, with civic contributions welcomed.",https://search.shinrokuden.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/shinrokuden/,"International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. Michinoku Shinrokuden. Retrieved from https://search.shinrokuden.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/shinrokuden/.",Freely accessible online; open to public contributions.,hurricane-digital-memory-bank,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000082,ainu-museum-nibutani,Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum,"Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum, Biratori Town",Japan,JP,Asia,Eastern Asia,42.6939,142.0158,Ainu; Japanese,,indigenous history; oral tradition; language documentation,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1992,,"Opened in 1992 in the Ainu community of Nibutani, Hokkaido, this museum preserves and screens recordings of yukar (heroic epics) and other Ainu oral traditions passed down by word of mouth for generations.",https://www.town.biratori.hokkaido.jp/,"Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum, Biratori Town. Retrieved from https://www.town.biratori.hokkaido.jp/.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000083,vanuatu-cultural-centre-archive,Film and Audio Archive,Vanuatu Cultural Centre,Vanuatu,VU,Oceania,Melanesia,-17.7333,168.3167,Bislama; English; French; Multiple languages,multiple ni-Vanuatu languages,oral tradition; folklife; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Oral tradition & folklore,1955,,"Vanuatu's national cultural institution, tracing its origins to 1955, maintains a Film and Audio Archive and a national heritage registry documenting kastom (customary) oral traditions, ceremonies, and languages across the archipelago's many communities.",https://vanuatuculturalcentre.gov.vu/,Vanuatu Cultural Centre. Film and Audio Archive. Retrieved from https://vanuatuculturalcentre.gov.vu/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000084,itaukei-institute-fiji,iTaukei Institute of Language and Culture,iTaukei Affairs Board,Fiji,FJ,Oceania,Melanesia,-18.1248,178.4501,Fijian; English,,oral tradition; language documentation; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1974,,"Evolving from a Fijian dictionary project begun in 1974, this institute is custodian of iTaukei dialects and oral traditions across Fiji's fourteen provinces, running a Cultural Mapping Programme recording traditional knowledge village by village.",https://www.itaukeiaffairs.gov.fj/index.php/divisions/tilc,iTaukei Affairs Board. iTaukei Institute of Language and Culture. Retrieved from https://www.itaukeiaffairs.gov.fj/index.php/divisions/tilc.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000085,paradisec-archive,PARADISEC,Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures,Australia,AU,Oceania,Australia and New Zealand,-33.8886,151.1873,Multiple languages,multiple Pacific and Southeast Asian languages,language documentation; oral tradition; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2003,,"Established in 2003, this digital archive preserves endangered field recordings from Oceania and Southeast Asia, holding 20,500 hours of audio and 4,000 hours of video documenting 1,291 languages that would otherwise risk being lost.",https://www.paradisec.org.au/,PARADISEC. Retrieved from https://www.paradisec.org.au/.,,aiatsis-collection; ailla-archive; elar-soas,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000086,australian-queer-archives,Australian Queer Archives,Australian Queer Archives (AQuA),Australia,AU,Oceania,Australia and New Zealand,-37.8567,144.9749,English,,LGBTQ+ history; social history; community memory,Gender & sexuality; History & politics; Memory & community,1978,,"Established in Melbourne in 1978 as the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, AQuA holds over 500,000 items including oral history and audio recordings, the largest collection relating to LGBTQI+ Australians.",https://queerarchives.org.au/,Australian Queer Archives (AQuA). Retrieved from https://queerarchives.org.au/.,,gala-queer-archive; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000087,gala-queer-archive,GALA Queer Archive,GALA Queer Archive,South Africa,ZA,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-26.1929,28.0305,English; Afrikaans; Zulu; Xhosa,,LGBTQ+ history; human rights; community memory,Gender & sexuality; Human rights & justice; Memory & community,1997,,"Founded in Johannesburg in 1997 as Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action, GALA documents LGBTQIA+ history and culture in South Africa and the region, including oral history projects on lesbian narratives and African women's queer experience.",https://gala.co.za/,GALA Queer Archive. Retrieved from https://gala.co.za/.,,australian-queer-archives; one-archives-usc; saha-oral-history,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000088,one-archives-usc,ONE Archives at the USC Libraries,University of Southern California Libraries,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.0224,-118.2851,English,,LGBTQ+ history; social history; community memory,Gender & sexuality; History & politics; Memory & community,1952,,"Founded in 1952 and housed at USC Libraries since 2010, ONE Archives is the largest LGBTQ archive in the world, holding over two million items including thousands of oral history video and audio recordings.",https://one.usc.edu/,ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Retrieved from https://one.usc.edu/.,,a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland; australian-queer-archives; gala-queer-archive; glbt-historical-society; lesbian-herstory-archives; preserve-the-baltimore-uprising; the-outwords-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000089,lesbian-herstory-archives,Lesbian Herstory Archives,Lesbian Herstory Archives,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.671,-73.9814,English,,LGBTQ+ history; women's history; community memory,Gender & sexuality; Memory & community,1974,,"Founded in 1974 by members of New York's Gay Academic Union, the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn holds the world's largest collection of lesbian history, including roughly 3,000 oral history cassette recordings and 950 videotapes.",https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/,Lesbian Herstory Archives. Retrieved from https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/.,,activist-women-s-voices; glbt-historical-society; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000090,glbt-historical-society,GLBT Historical Society Archives,GLBT Historical Society,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,37.7749,-122.4194,English,,LGBTQ+ history; social history; community memory,Gender & sexuality; History & politics; Memory & community,1985,,"Founded in San Francisco in 1985, the GLBT Historical Society holds an oral history collection begun in 1992 and later projects including the San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project chronicling AIDS-era direct-action organizing.",https://www.glbthistory.org/archives-about-visitor-info,GLBT Historical Society. Archives. Retrieved from https://www.glbthistory.org/archives-about-visitor-info.,,lesbian-herstory-archives; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000091,black-cultural-archives-windrush,Windrush Generation Oral Histories,Black Cultural Archives,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.4613,-0.1156,English,,migration; displacement; community memory,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1981,,"Founded in Brixton in 1981, the Black Cultural Archives holds oral history interviews with members of the Windrush generation and Black Women's Movement, documenting the postwar migration of Caribbean and African communities to Britain.",https://blackculturalarchives.org/our-story,Black Cultural Archives. Windrush Generation Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://blackculturalarchives.org/our-story.,,domid-migration-museum; saada-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000092,walter-reuther-library,Walter P. Reuther Library Oral History Collection,Wayne State University,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,42.3573,-83.0673,English,,labor history; social history; civil rights,History & politics; Human rights & justice; Labor,1960,,"Founded in 1960 as the Labor History Archives, North America's largest labor archive holds oral history recordings alongside the papers of unions and labor leaders documenting the American labor movement from Detroit's auto industry outward.",https://reuther.wayne.edu/memory,"Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://reuther.wayne.edu/memory.",In-person/reading-room access; recordings requested via the Audiovisual Department.,sohp-unc; warwick-modern-records-centre,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000093,sophia-smith-voices-of-feminism,Voices of Feminism Oral History Project,"Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,42.3168,-72.6412,English; Spanish,,women's history; civil rights; labor history,Gender & sexuality; Human rights & justice; Labor,1990,2006,"Recorded between 1990 and 2006 and expanded with Ford Foundation funding, this project documents grassroots feminist organizing in the late 20th-century United States through five-to-six-hour interviews with labor, anti-racism, lesbian-rights, and reproductive-justice activists.",https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/research-collections/resources-lists/oral-histories/voices-of-feminism,"Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/research-collections/resources-lists/oral-histories/voices-of-feminism.",,jewish-womens-archive-weaving-words; sparrow-india,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000094,jewish-womens-archive-weaving-words,Weaving Women's Words,Jewish Women's Archive,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,42.3601,-71.0589,English,,women's history; everyday life; community memory,Gender & sexuality; Memory & community,2001,,"This early-2000s Jewish Women's Archive initiative recorded oral histories with 30 Jewish women each in Baltimore and Seattle, all born in the early 20th century, capturing decades of social change through their working and family lives.",https://jwa.org/oralhistories,Jewish Women's Archive. Weaving Women's Words. Retrieved from https://jwa.org/oralhistories.,Full audio and transcripts freely available via the Internet Archive.,activist-women-s-voices; sophia-smith-voices-of-feminism,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000095,association-cultural-equity-lomax,Alan Lomax Archive / Global Jukebox,Association for Cultural Equity,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7685,-73.9645,Multiple languages,multiple world languages,oral tradition; folklife; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1933,,"Housing the life's work of folklorist Alan Lomax, who began field recording in the 1930s across the American South, Britain, Spain, Italy, and the Caribbean, this Hunter College-based archive now streams over 6,000 songs from 1,000 cultures via its Global Jukebox platform.",https://www.culturalequity.org/,Association for Cultural Equity. Alan Lomax Archive / Global Jukebox. Retrieved from https://www.culturalequity.org/.,Freely accessible online via the Global Jukebox.,berlin-phonogramm-archiv; oral-history-of-american-music; ralph-rinzler-folklife-archives; slave-narratives-a-folk-history-of-slavery-in-the; tobar-an-dualchais,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000096,the-historymakers,The HistoryMakers Digital Archive,The HistoryMakers,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.8781,-87.6298,English,,civil rights; everyday life; community memory,Human rights & justice; Memory & community,1999,,"Founded in Chicago in 1999, The HistoryMakers has recorded over 11,000 hours of video oral history across more than 400 U.S. cities, forming the single largest collection of African American first-person video testimony in the world, now preserved at the Library of Congress.",https://www.thehistorymakers.org/,The HistoryMakers. Digital Archive. Retrieved from https://www.thehistorymakers.org/.,,densho-digital-repository; storycorps-national-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000097,sohp-unc,Southern Oral History Program,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,35.9132,-79.0558,English,,social history; civil rights; labor history,History & politics; Human rights & justice; Labor,1973,,"Founded in 1973, the Southern Oral History Program stewards more than 6,000 interviews documenting the U.S. South, from Civil Rights Movement activists and millworkers to educators and community leaders.",https://sohp.org/,"Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved from https://sohp.org/.",,samuel-proctor-oral-history-program; walter-reuther-library,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000098,elar-soas,Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR),SOAS University of London,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.5222,-0.13,Multiple languages,multiple endangered languages,language documentation; oral tradition; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2002,,"Based at SOAS since the early 2000s, ELAR is a digital repository of endangered-language documentation from around the world, with regional strongholds in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and South America, mostly freely accessible after registration.",https://www.elararchive.org/,SOAS University of London. Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR). Retrieved from https://www.elararchive.org/.,,ailla-archive; endangered-archives-programme; paradisec-archive; tla-dobes,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000099,ailla-archive,Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA),University of Texas at Austin,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,30.2849,-97.7341,Indigenous languages of the Americas,multiple Indigenous Latin American languages,language documentation; indigenous history; oral tradition,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2000,,"Founded in 2000, AILLA is a digital repository preserving field notes, narratives, songs, and oratory recordings documenting Indigenous languages of Latin America, freely accessible online in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.",https://ailla.utexas.org/,University of Texas at Austin. Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA). Retrieved from https://ailla.utexas.org/.,,elar-soas; paradisec-archive; tla-dobes,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000100,tla-dobes,The Language Archive / DoBeS,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,Netherlands,NL,Europe,Western Europe,51.8126,5.8372,Multiple languages,multiple endangered languages,language documentation; oral tradition; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2000,,"Launched in 2000 with VolkswagenFoundation funding, the DoBeS programme has funded around 50 endangered-language documentation projects worldwide, with annotated recordings stored at Nijmegen's Language Archive; select collections joined UNESCO's Memory of the World register in 2015.",https://tla.mpi.nl/,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The Language Archive / DoBeS. Retrieved from https://tla.mpi.nl/.,,ailla-archive; elar-soas,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000101,alaska-native-language-archive,Michael E. Krauss Alaska Native Language Archive,University of Alaska Fairbanks,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,64.857,-147.834,Indigenous languages of the Americas,multiple Alaska Native languages,language documentation; indigenous history; oral tradition,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1972,,"Created by state legislation in 1972 alongside the Alaska Native Language Center, this Fairbanks archive holds over 15,000 documents and audio recordings dating to the 1940s documenting the twenty Native languages of Alaska.",https://www.uaf.edu/anla/,University of Alaska Fairbanks. Michael E. Krauss Alaska Native Language Archive. Retrieved from https://www.uaf.edu/anla/.,,project-jukebox-alaska,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000102,project-jukebox-alaska,Project Jukebox,University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,64.857,-147.834,English; Indigenous languages of the Americas,multiple Alaska Native languages,oral tradition; indigenous history; everyday life,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1985,,"Since the mid-1980s, this digital branch of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program has shared audio and video recordings, transcripts, and historic photographs from communities across Alaska, including a statewide 1994-96 Communities of Memory project.",https://jukebox.uaf.edu/,University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program. Project Jukebox. Retrieved from https://jukebox.uaf.edu/.,Freely accessible online.,alaska-native-language-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000103,them-days-archives-labrador,Them Days Archives,Them Days,Canada,CA,Americas,Northern America,53.3018,-60.3258,English; Inuktitut; Innu-aimun,,oral tradition; everyday life; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1984,,"Growing out of a quarterly magazine published since 1975, the Them Days Archives in Happy Valley-Goose Bay has since 1984 gathered diaries, letters, and audio and video recordings documenting Labrador history and culture across Inuit, Innu, and settler communities.",https://www.themdays.com/,Them Days. Archives. Retrieved from https://www.themdays.com/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000104,nmai-archive-center,Archive Center,"National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8462,-76.9314,English; Indigenous languages of the Americas,multiple Indigenous languages of the Americas,indigenous history; oral tradition; community memory,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1989,,"The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, established in 1989, maintains an Archive Center with oral history recordings and records of Native and Indigenous artists, writers, activists, and organizations across the Western Hemisphere.",https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/collections/archive,"National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Archive Center. Retrieved from https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/collections/archive.","By appointment only, onsite research visits.",activist-women-s-voices; doris-duke-utah-oral-history; slave-narratives-a-folk-history-of-slavery-in-the,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000105,doris-duke-utah-oral-history,Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Project,"University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7649,-111.8421,English; Indigenous languages of the Americas,multiple Indigenous languages,indigenous history; oral tradition; community memory,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1966,1971,"Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the University of Utah's American West Center conducted interviews across six western U.S. states between 1966 and 1971, ultimately recording 1,458 interviews now being digitized with descendant communities.",https://lib.utah.edu/collections/multimedia/oralhistory.php,"University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://lib.utah.edu/collections/multimedia/oralhistory.php.",,nctr-residential-schools; nmai-archive-center,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000106,angel-island-immigration-foundation,Immigrant Voices Oral History Collection,Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,37.8608,-122.4326,English; Chinese; Multiple languages,multiple immigrant languages,migration; displacement; Partition,Migration & displacement,1983,,"Formed in 1983 after Chinese poetry carved into detention-barracks walls was rediscovered, this foundation has curated over 250 oral histories from immigrants detained at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940 and their descendants.",https://www.aiisf.org/,Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. Immigrant Voices Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://www.aiisf.org/.,,bracero-history-archive; saada-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000107,saada-archive,South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA),South Asian American Digital Archive,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,39.9526,-75.1652,English; Multiple languages,multiple South Asian languages,migration; everyday life; community memory,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,2008,,"Established in Philadelphia in 2008, SAADA preserves the history of South Asian communities in the United States dating to the 1600s, including multiple oral history projects documenting Indo-American, Pakistani, and other South Asian migration experiences.",https://www.saada.org/browse/type/oral-history,South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.saada.org/browse/type/oral-history.,Freely accessible online.,angel-island-immigration-foundation; black-cultural-archives-windrush; moise-a-khayrallah-center-for-lebanese-diaspora,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000108,bracero-history-archive,Bracero History Archive,"Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,31.7619,-106.485,Spanish; English,,migration; labor history; everyday life,Labor; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,2005,,"A partnership begun in late 2005 among the Smithsonian, George Mason University, Brown University, and UTEP's Institute of Oral History, this archive holds the largest collection of oral histories of braceros, Mexican guest workers in mid-20th-century U.S. agriculture.",https://braceroarchive.org/,"Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso. Bracero History Archive. Retrieved from https://braceroarchive.org/.",Freely accessible online.,angel-island-immigration-foundation; chinese-railroad-workers-stanford; fanhs-national-pinoy-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000109,domid-migration-museum,Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany (DOMiD),DOMiD e.V.,Germany,DE,Europe,Western Europe,50.9375,6.9603,German; Turkish,,migration; labor history; everyday life,Labor; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1990,,"Founded in 1990 by Turkish 'guest worker' migrants as a self-organized archive, DOMiD now holds more than 150,000 objects and documents, including personal narratives and everyday objects, tracing the history of migration to postwar Germany.",https://domid.org/en/,DOMiD e.V. Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany. Retrieved from https://domid.org/en/.,,black-cultural-archives-windrush; odysseo-generiques-oral-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000110,cuban-heritage-collection-miami,Cuban Heritage Collection Oral Histories,University of Miami Libraries,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,25.7174,-80.2762,Spanish; English,,migration; displacement; political history,History & politics; Migration & displacement,2008,,"Since 2008, the University of Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection has recorded oral histories of Cuban exiles and dissidents, including the Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project and interviews with 2003 Black Spring political prisoners.",https://www.library.miami.edu/oral-histories.html,University of Miami Libraries. Cuban Heritage Collection Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.library.miami.edu/oral-histories.html.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000111,viet-stories-uci,Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project,"University of California, Irvine",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,33.6405,-117.8443,Vietnamese; English,,migration; displacement; war and conflict,Migration & displacement; War & conflict,2011,,"Launched in 2011 in UC Irvine's Department of Asian American Studies, Viet Stories documents the life stories of first-generation Vietnamese Americans in Southern California, recording memories of prewar Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and refugee resettlement.",https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/,"University of California, Irvine. Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/.",,hmong-archives-stpaul,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000112,hmong-archives-stpaul,Hmong Archives,Hmong Archives,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,44.9537,-93.09,Hmong; English,,migration; displacement; everyday life,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1999,,"Founded in Saint Paul in February 1999 by Hmong professionals, this archive collects materials and oral history documenting Hmong people, including a project recording Hmong immigrants who resettled in Minnesota from Laos and Thailand.",https://hmongarchives.org/,Hmong Archives. Retrieved from https://hmongarchives.org/.,,viet-stories-uci,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000113,immigration-history-research-center-umn,Immigration History Research Center Archives,University of Minnesota,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,44.974,-93.2277,English; Multiple languages,multiple immigrant languages,migration; everyday life; community memory,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1965,,"Founded in 1965, this is the oldest research center devoted to immigrant and refugee life in North America; its Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories collection holds over 360 interviews recorded between 1967 and 2012.",https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/ihrca,University of Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center Archives. Retrieved from https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/ihrca.,,moise-a-khayrallah-center-for-lebanese-diaspora,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000114,fortunoff-video-archive,Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,Yale University Library,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.3111,-72.928,English; Multiple languages,multiple languages,Holocaust; genocide; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice,1979,,"Begun as a New Haven community project in 1979 and brought to Yale in 1981, the Fortunoff Archive now holds over 4,500 videotaped interviews with Holocaust witnesses and survivors, including Sinti and Roma survivors, resisters, and liberators.",https://web.library.yale.edu/fortuneoff_1,Yale University Library. Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Retrieved from https://web.library.yale.edu/fortuneoff_1.,,david-boder-voices-of-holocaust; freedom-collection; iwm-sound-archive; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; yad-vashem-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000115,national-wwii-museum-oral-history,Oral History Collection,The National WWII Museum,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,29.9425,-90.0765,English,,war and conflict; military history,War & conflict,2000,,"Growing from historian Stephen Ambrose's personal collecting, this New Orleans museum (opened in 2000) holds more than 9,000 personal accounts of World War II veterans, part of over 250,000 artifacts.",https://www.nationalww2museum.org/oral-history-resources,The National WWII Museum. Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://www.nationalww2museum.org/oral-history-resources.,,iwm-sound-archive; veterans-history-project,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000116,911-memorial-museum-oral-history,Oral Histories,National September 11 Memorial & Museum,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7115,-74.0134,English,,war and conflict; disaster and survivor testimony; community memory,"Memory & community; Science, environment & disaster; War & conflict",2005,,"The 9/11 Memorial & Museum's oral history collection, built since its 2005 founding, holds more than 2,500 recorded interviews with responders, survivors, and family members documenting the September 11, 2001 attacks and their aftermath.",https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories,National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories.,Selected audio freely streamable online.,storycorps-national-archive,https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000117,hurricane-digital-memory-bank,Hurricane Digital Memory Bank,"Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8315,-77.3067,English; Spanish,,disaster and survivor testimony; everyday life; community memory,"Memory & community; Science, environment & disaster",2005,,"Organized in 2005 with the University of New Orleans, this is the largest free public archive of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, with over 25,000 first-hand accounts, images, blog postings, and podcasts documenting the storms and their aftermath.",https://hurricanearchive.org/,"Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. Retrieved from https://hurricanearchive.org/.",Freely accessible online.,michinoku-shinrokuden,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000118,armenian-film-foundation,Armenian Film Foundation Genocide Testimony Collection,Armenian Film Foundation,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.1706,-118.8376,Armenian; English; Multiple languages,multiple languages,genocide; Holocaust; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice,1968,2005,"Founded in 1979 by filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian, himself a genocide survivor, this Thousand Oaks foundation holds 400 interviews filmed between 1968 and 2005 with Armenian Genocide survivors, witnesses, and their descendants, now integrated into the USC Shoah Foundation's archive.",http://www.armenianfilm.org/,Armenian Film Foundation. Genocide Testimony Collection. Retrieved from http://www.armenianfilm.org/.,,freedom-collection; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; yad-vashem-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000119,david-boder-voices-of-holocaust,Voices of the Holocaust,Illinois Institute of Technology,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.8356,-87.6266,Yiddish; German; Polish; Multiple languages,multiple languages,Holocaust; genocide; displacement,Genocide & mass violence; Migration & displacement,1946,1946,"In 1946, psychologist David P. Boder traveled to displaced-persons camps across France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany with a wire recorder, capturing 130 interviews in nine languages that are considered the earliest known recorded oral histories of the Holocaust.",https://voices.library.iit.edu/,Illinois Institute of Technology. Voices of the Holocaust. Retrieved from https://voices.library.iit.edu/.,"Freely accessible online, fully transcribed and translated.",fortunoff-video-archive; yad-vashem-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000120,endangered-archives-programme,Endangered Archives Programme,British Library,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.5299,-0.1276,Multiple languages,multiple world languages,language documentation; oral tradition; history,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2004,,"Funded by Arcadia since 2004, this British Library programme has supported over 500 projects in more than 90 countries, digitizing 16 million images and 35,000 sound recordings of at-risk cultural heritage, including oral and audiovisual materials from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.",https://eap.bl.uk/,British Library. Endangered Archives Programme. Retrieved from https://eap.bl.uk/.,Digitized collections freely accessible online.,elar-soas; ibadan-african-studies-audiovisual,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000121,japanese-american-national-museum,Hirasaki National Resource Center Oral Histories,Japanese American National Museum,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.0503,-118.2404,English; Japanese,,migration; incarceration; civil rights,Human rights & justice; Migration & displacement,1992,,"Founded in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo in 1992, JANM preserves oral history interviews, diaries, and military memoirs documenting Japanese American history and wartime incarceration, in long partnership with the Densho Digital Repository.",https://www.janm.org/hnrc,Japanese American National Museum. Hirasaki National Resource Center Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.janm.org/hnrc.,,densho-digital-repository; fanhs-national-pinoy-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000122,fanhs-national-pinoy-archives,National Pinoy Archives,Filipino American National Historical Society,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,47.6062,-122.3321,English; Tagalog; Ilocano,,migration; labor history; everyday life,Labor; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1987,,"Founded in Seattle in 1987 by FANHS, the National Pinoy Archives collects historical records of Filipino Americans, including oral history interviews recorded by local chapters such as the Sacramento-Delta chapter's project on farmworker communities.",https://www.fanhs-national.org/national-pinoy-archives,Filipino American National Historical Society. National Pinoy Archives. Retrieved from https://www.fanhs-national.org/national-pinoy-archives.,,bracero-history-archive; japanese-american-national-museum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000123,gallaudet-university-archives,Gallaudet University Archives,Gallaudet University,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.9072,-76.9962,American Sign Language; English,,Deaf history; language documentation; community memory,Disability & Deaf histories; Language & linguistics; Memory & community,1864,,"Housed at Gallaudet University, founded in 1864 as the world's only university designed for Deaf and hard-of-hearing students, this archive is the largest collection of materials on Deaf culture, history, and signed languages worldwide, including personal papers and recorded interviews.",https://gallaudet.edu/archives/,Gallaudet University. Archives. Retrieved from https://gallaudet.edu/archives/.,,roho-disability-rights,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000124,roho-disability-rights,Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project,"Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,37.8721,-122.2607,English,,disability rights; civil rights; social history,Disability & Deaf histories; History & politics; Human rights & justice,1996,,"Launched in 1996 by the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, this project recorded more than 100 interviews with leaders and participants of the Berkeley-born disability rights and independent living movement of the 1960s-70s and its national growth.",https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/disability-rights,"Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/disability-rights.",,bancroft-oral-history-center; gallaudet-university-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000125,chinese-railroad-workers-stanford,Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project,Stanford University,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,37.4275,-122.1697,English; Cantonese; Mandarin Chinese,,labor history; migration; everyday life,Labor; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,2012,2020,"Active from 2012 to 2020, this Stanford project recorded oral histories with nearly forty descendants of Chinese laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, recovering firsthand family memory absent from official records.",https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/,Stanford University. Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. Retrieved from https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/.,Project concluded in 2020; site maintained as a public research archive.,bracero-history-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000126,khmer-legacies,Khmer Legacies,Khmer Legacies,Cambodia,KH,Asia,South-eastern Asia,11.5564,104.9282,Khmer; English,,genocide; migration; displacement,Genocide & mass violence; Migration & displacement,2007,2011,"Founded in 2007 by filmmaker Socheata Poeuv, Khmer Legacies recorded more than one hundred testimonies of Khmer Rouge survivors and former cadres between 2007 and 2011, sixty in Cambodia and forty among the Cambodian diaspora in the United States.",https://apa.nyu.edu/survey/2015/01/khmer-legacies-records/,Khmer Legacies. Retrieved via NYU Asian/Pacific/American Archives Survey: https://apa.nyu.edu/survey/2015/01/khmer-legacies-records/.,,dccam-oral-history; genocide-archive-rwanda,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000127,museo-palabra-imagen-el-salvador,Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen,Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI),El Salvador,SV,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,13.6929,-89.2182,Spanish,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1996,,"Founded in San Salvador in 1996 by former clandestine-radio broadcaster Carlos Henriquez Consalvi, MUPI holds El Salvador's most significant audiovisual archive of the 1980-1992 civil war, including the Radio Venceremos collection and oral history programming for younger generations.",https://www.elsalvadormemory.org/museo-de-la-palabra-es,Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI). Retrieved from https://www.elsalvadormemory.org/museo-de-la-palabra-es.,,cnmh-colombia; lugar-de-la-memoria-peru; memoria-abierta-argentina,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000128,lugar-de-la-memoria-peru,Centro de Documentación e Investigación (CVR Testimonies),"Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM)",Peru,PE,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-12.1247,-77.03,Spanish; Quechua,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2001,2003,"Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission collected nearly 17,000 testimonies between 2001 and 2003 documenting the country's 1980-2000 internal armed conflict; these video and audio archives are now preserved and digitized at Lima's LUM documentation center.",https://lum.cultura.pe/content/centro-de-documentaci%C3%B3n-e-investigaci%C3%B3n,"Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM). Centro de Documentación e Investigación. Retrieved from https://lum.cultura.pe/content/centro-de-documentaci%C3%B3n-e-investigaci%C3%B3n.",,cnmh-colombia; museo-memoria-chile; museo-palabra-imagen-el-salvador,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000129,museo-memoria-chile,Archivo Oral,Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos,Chile,CL,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-33.4372,-70.6683,Spanish,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2010,,"Opened in Santiago in 2010, this museum's Oral Archive applies recorded-interview methodology to document personal and collective experiences of Chile's 1973-1990 military dictatorship, alongside its wider testimonial and documentary collections.",https://testimonios.museodelamemoria.cl/category/archivo-oral/,Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos. Archivo Oral. Retrieved from https://testimonios.museodelamemoria.cl/category/archivo-oral/.,,lugar-de-la-memoria-peru; memoria-abierta-argentina,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000130,cavr-chega-timor-leste,Chega! CAVR Truth Commission Testimonies,"Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação (CAVR)",Timor-Leste,TL,Asia,South-eastern Asia,-8.5569,125.5603,Tetum; Portuguese; Indonesian,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2002,2005,"Timor-Leste's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation operated from 2002 to 2005, relying heavily on eyewitness testimony to document mass killing and displacement during the 1974-1999 Indonesian occupation, published in its final report Chega!.",https://chegareport.org/,"Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação (CAVR). Chega! Final Report. Retrieved from https://chegareport.org/.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000131,cpdoc-fgv-brazil,Programa de Historia Oral (Oral History Program),"CPDOC, Fundação Getulio Vargas",Brazil,BR,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-22.9399,-43.1878,Portuguese,,political history; history; national memory,History & politics; Memory & community,1975,,"Created in 1975 within Rio de Janeiro's Centro de Pesquisa e Documentacao de Historia Contemporanea do Brasil, this pioneering oral history program has shaped oral history methodology across Brazil while building interviews with figures central to the country's recent political history.",https://cpdoc.fgv.br/,"CPDOC, Fundação Getulio Vargas. Programa de Historia Oral. Retrieved from https://cpdoc.fgv.br/.",,museu-da-pessoa,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000132,jamaica-memory-bank,Jamaica Memory Bank,African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica,Jamaica,JM,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,17.9712,-76.7936,Jamaican Patois; English,,oral tradition; folklife; everyday life,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1980,,"Begun as an independent agency in 1980 and integrated into the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica in 1990, the Jamaica Memory Bank holds over 2,000 sound recordings and 800 videos of storytelling, folk religion, craft, and oral history from across Jamaica's parishes.",https://acij-ioj.org.jm/,African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica. Jamaica Memory Bank. Retrieved from https://acij-ioj.org.jm/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000133,kazakhstan-central-state-sound-archive,"Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan","Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan",Kazakhstan,KZ,Asia,Central Asia,43.222,76.8512,Kazakh; Russian,,history; national memory,History & politics; Memory & community,1943,,"Kazakhstan's national audiovisual archive, founded in 1943 and based in Almaty, holds roughly 300,000 items of film, photo and sound-recording documents covering the country's Soviet-era and post-independence history.",http://kfdz.kz/,"Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Retrieved from http://kfdz.kz/.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000134,uzbekistan-institute-language-literature-folklore,"Folklore Archive of the Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore","Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan",Uzbekistan,UZ,Asia,Central Asia,41.2995,69.2401,Uzbek,,folklore; oral tradition; epic performance; ethnomusicology,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1934,,"Founded in 1934 in Tashkent, this Academy of Sciences institute's Department of Folklore has organized decades of field expeditions recording Uzbek oral narratives and epic dostons, including a large 1969 expedition that documented epic narrators with the Alisher Navoi Museum of Literature and Karshi State Pedagogical Institute.",https://tai.academy.uz/en,"Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. Retrieved from https://tai.academy.uz/en.",,kyrgyzstan-manas-epic-trilogy,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000135,kyrgyzstan-manas-epic-trilogy,"Kyrgyz Epic Trilogy: Manas, Semetey, Seytek",UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Kyrgyz manaschi (epic-teller) tradition,Kyrgyzstan,KG,Asia,Central Asia,42.8746,74.5698,Kyrgyz,,oral tradition; epic performance; history,History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,1922,,"The Manas, Semetey and Seytek trilogy is an oral epic recited by Kyrgyz manaschi performers and inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013. Its first large-scale transcription from oral performance, of the version narrated by Sagymbay Orozbakov, was carried out between 1922 and 1926 and is separately inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.",https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/kyrgyz-epic-trilogy-manas-semetey-seytek-00876,"UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Kyrgyz epic trilogy: Manas, Semetey, Seytek. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/kyrgyz-epic-trilogy-manas-semetey-seytek-00876.",,uzbekistan-institute-language-literature-folklore,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000136,tajikistan-rudaki-institute-folklore-archive,Tajik Folklore Archive of the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature,"Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan",Tajikistan,TJ,Asia,Central Asia,38.5598,68.787,Tajik,,folklore; oral tradition; linguistics,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1923,2003,"The Rudaki Institute in Dushanbe, founded in 1932, holds one of the few surviving repositories of Tajik expressive culture: a folklore archive of notebooks, notecards and loose-leaf papers from Soviet-era and post-Soviet fieldwork expeditions, collected between 1923 and 2003 and written in Arabic, Latin and Cyrillic script.",https://izar.tj/en/department-folklore,"Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Department of Folklore. Retrieved from https://izar.tj/en/department-folklore.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000137,turkey-trt-folk-music-archive,TRT Turkish Folk Music Archive,Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT),Turkey,TR,Asia,Western Asia,39.9208,32.8541,Turkish,,folklore; music; ethnomusicology,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1926,,"TRT's folk music archive comprises more than 6,500 field-collected recordings and notations of Turkish folk music, built on collecting expeditions beginning with the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory (1926-1929) and continued by the Ankara State Conservatory (1936-1952). Notation and recording holdings are made available through TRT's Nota Kutuphanesi (Notation Library) platform.",https://nota.trt.net.tr/Nota-Kutuphanesi,Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT). Nota Kutuphanesi. Retrieved from https://nota.trt.net.tr/Nota-Kutuphanesi.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000138,afghanistan-hoover-oral-history-project,HART: Hoover Afghanistan Oral History Project,"Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University",Afghanistan,AF,Asia,Southern Asia,34.5553,69.2075,Dari; Pashto,,war and conflict; displacement; migration; refugees,Migration & displacement; War & conflict,2022,,"Since 2022, oral historian Halima Kazem has recorded more than 450 hours of interviews with Afghans who fled the country following the August 2021 Taliban takeover and the collapse of the Afghan government. The interviews are held in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives' digital repository.",https://digitalcollections2.hoover.org/collection/3249451/hart-hoover-afghanistan-oral-history-project,"Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University. HART: Hoover Afghanistan Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections2.hoover.org/collection/3249451/hart-hoover-afghanistan-oral-history-project.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000139,iraq-mosul-jewish-community-testimonies,Intangible Heritage Collection of Testimonies on the Jewish Community of Mosul,ALIPH Foundation (International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas),Iraq,IQ,Asia,Western Asia,36.3489,43.1189,Arabic,,displacement; community memory; religion,Memory & community; Migration & displacement; Religion & belief,2021,2022,"Between 2021 and 2022, an ALIPH Foundation-supported project recorded seventeen video interviews with individuals connected to Mosul's historic Jewish community, whose members had largely left Iraq by the mid-20th century, alongside digitization of private family archives and a community journal.",https://www.aliph-foundation.org/en/projects/intangible-heritage-collection-of-testimonies-on-the-jewish-community-of-mosul,ALIPH Foundation. Intangible Heritage Collection of Testimonies on the Jewish Community of Mosul. Retrieved from https://www.aliph-foundation.org/en/projects/intangible-heritage-collection-of-testimonies-on-the-jewish-community-of-mosul.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000140,saudi-arabia-darah-oral-history-center,Darah Oral History Center,King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah),Saudi Arabia,SA,Asia,Western Asia,24.7136,46.6753,Arabic,,oral tradition; history; family history,History & politics; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1995,,"Established in 1995 by the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah) in Riyadh, this was the first specialized oral history center in Saudi Arabia. It has recorded thousands of audio and video interviews with storytellers, elders and narrators from across the Kingdom for use in historical research.",https://www.darah.org.sa/,King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah). Retrieved from https://www.darah.org.sa/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000141,uae-national-archives-oral-history-programme,Oral History Programme,"National Library and Archives, United Arab Emirates",United Arab Emirates,AE,Asia,Western Asia,24.4539,54.3773,Arabic,,oral tradition; folklife; everyday life,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,2008,,"Since 2008, the UAE's National Library and Archives has recorded more than 800 audio-visual interviews with elderly Emirati narrators and eyewitnesses, documenting local dialects, folk songs and the lifestyles of earlier generations for the national archival record.",https://www.nla.ae/en/our-history/oral-history/overview/overview/,"National Library and Archives, United Arab Emirates. Oral History Overview. Retrieved from https://www.nla.ae/en/our-history/oral-history/overview/overview/.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000142,kuwait-auk-oral-history-documentation-project,Oral History and Documentation Project (OHDP),American University of Kuwait Library,Kuwait,KW,Asia,Western Asia,29.3375,48.0758,Arabic; English,,oral tradition; community memory; everyday life,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,2020,,"Launched in 2020 by the American University of Kuwait Library in collaboration with KIPCO, the Oral History and Documentation Project is Kuwait's first comprehensive program actively recording life-history interviews across a range of topics to preserve the voices of Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti residents. The library was among the first in the Arab world to adopt the OHMS oral-history indexing application, including Arabic-language support.",https://oralhistory.auk.edu.kw,American University of Kuwait Library. Oral History and Documentation Project. Retrieved from https://oralhistory.auk.edu.kw.,Selected life-history interviews are published and browsable via the project's own online platform.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000143,sudan-folklore-traditional-music-archives,Folklore and Traditional Music Archives,"Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum",Sudan,SD,Africa,Northern Africa,15.6136,32.5322,Arabic,,folklore; ethnomusicology; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1963,,"The Institute of African and Asian Studies at the University of Khartoum holds the Folklore and Traditional Music Archives: more than 3,000 audio recordings and photographs of traditional Sudanese music and folklore gathered since 1963 through successive research initiatives. UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund has supported an action plan for digitizing and preserving the collection.",https://ich.unesco.org/en/news/digitization-of-sudan-folklore-and-traditional-music-archives-00046,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Digitization of Sudan folklore and traditional music archives. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/news/digitization-of-sudan-folklore-and-traditional-music-archives-00046.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000144,tunisia-cmam-phonotheque-nationale,Phonothèque Nationale de Tunisie (National Sound Archive),"Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes (CMAM), Ennejma Ezzahra",Tunisia,TN,Africa,Northern Africa,36.8687,10.3412,Arabic; French,,music; ethnomusicology; folklife,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1907,,"The Phonothèque Nationale de Tunisie, run by the Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes at the Ennejma Ezzahra palace near Tunis, holds Tunisia's historical phonographic heritage: 78/80/45/33rpm discs and field recordings dating back to 1907, organized into roughly thirty corpora and made accessible online through the Telemeta audio platform.",https://phonotheque.cmam.tn/,,Many collections are streamable online via the Telemeta-based Phonothèque platform; other material requires an in-person consultation request to the Center.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000145,botswana-national-archives-oral-history,Oral History Collection,Botswana National Archives and Records Services (BNARS),Botswana,BW,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-24.6558,25.9086,Setswana; English,,oral tradition; community memory; history,History & politics; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1982,,"BNARS, a department under Botswana's Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture, has collected oral history recordings since 1982 documenting the histories of Botswana's ethnic groups, villages and notable individuals, held alongside its documentary archival holdings in Gaborone.",https://www.gov.bw/culture/national-archives-research-enquiry,,In-person research-room access at the National Archives in Gaborone; researchers submit an enquiry form in advance.,,,partially_verified,Source URL returned 404 in the 2026-09-21 link check; no replacement page found yet.,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000146,namibia-national-archives-aacrls-oral-history,AACRLS Oral History Collection,National Archives of Namibia,Namibia,NA,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-22.57,17.0836,English; Afrikaans,,oral tradition; resistance history; colonial history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,2001,2010,"The National Archives of Namibia's Archives of Anti-Colonial Resistance and the Liberation Struggle (AACRLS) programme, jointly funded by Namibia and Germany from 2001 to 2010, expanded the Archives' oral history holdings from a small base to roughly 1,500 recorded interviews with participants in Namibia's liberation struggle.",https://nan.gov.na/finding-aids,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000147,mozambique-arquivo-historico-oral-history,Independence-War and Rural Life Oral History Collection,"Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, Eduardo Mondlane University",Mozambique,MZ,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-25.9689,32.5934,Portuguese,,war and conflict; oral tradition; everyday life,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,1979,1984,"The Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, overseen by Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo since 1976, holds several hundred cassette-tape interviews and storytelling sessions recorded between 1979 and 1984 in Mozambique's northern provinces, documenting the war of independence, rural social life, rituals and local histories.",https://ahm.uem.mz/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000148,angola-arquivo-nacional-oral-tradition,Oral Tradition Sound Collection,Arquivo Nacional de Angola,Angola,AO,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-8.8147,13.2302,Portuguese; Umbundu,,oral tradition; folklife; history,History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,1960,1979,"Angola's National Archive holds magnetic-tape recordings made during the 1960s and 1970s in the Benguela, Huambo, Bié and Luanda regions, including interviews with traditional leaders (sobas and sekulos), oral narratives, songs and elders' memories, some of it recovered after an earlier period of neglect and now cared for by the Archive's oral-archive department.",https://www.ana.gov.ao/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000149,drc-rmca-ethnomusicology-sound-archive,Ethnomusicological Sound Archive (Congo Collections),"Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium)",Democratic Republic of the Congo,CD,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-4.4419,15.2663,French; Lingala; Swahili; Kikongo; Tshiluba,,ethnomusicology; music; colonial history,"Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Music, performance & broadcasting",1910,,"The Royal Museum for Central Africa's ethnomusicology department holds roughly 3,000 hours of sound recordings of traditional music from Central Africa, with a strong focus on the Congo and Rwanda, spanning 1910 Edison-cylinder recordings made by Armand Hutereau in Uele province through later tape, cassette and digital field recordings. A digitization project (DEKKMMA), run with the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Ghent University, is making the collection more widely accessible.",https://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/discover/collections_management/archives_and_documentation/archives,,"Physically held in Tervuren, Belgium, as the historical repository for this Central African material; access is by request to the museum's ethnomusicology department.",,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000150,madagascar-phonogrammarchiv-collection,Madagascar Sound Collection,"Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences",Madagascar,MG,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-18.9146,47.5361,Malagasy,,oral tradition; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1961,1992,"Field recordings of Malagasy traditional music, fairy tales and stories, made between 1961 and 1992 by researchers including Gerhard Kubik and August Schmidhofer, are held by the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv. In September 2012 the Archive repatriated a digital copy of over 1,000 of these sound documents to the Institut de Civilisations at the University of Antananarivo.",https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/home,IASA. Phonogrammarchiv repatriates Madagascar's acoustic heritage. Retrieved from https://www.iasa-web.org/phonogrammarchiv-repatriates-madagascar%E2%80%99s-acoustic-heritage.,A digital copy of the collection was repatriated to the University of Antananarivo in 2012; the original recordings remain held by the Phonogrammarchiv in Vienna.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000151,cameroon-cerdotola-oral-resources-laboratory,Oral Resources Laboratory (Laboratoire des Ressources Orales),Centre International de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Traditions et les Langues Africaines (CERDOTOLA),Cameroon,CM,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,3.848,11.5021,French,,oral tradition; linguistics; language documentation,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1977,,"CERDOTOLA, an intergovernmental research center founded by 11 African states in 1977 and headquartered in Yaoundé, runs an Oral Resources Laboratory (Laboratoire des Ressources Orales) dedicated to documenting and archiving African oral traditions and languages, and has hosted training sessions and conferences on sound, oral and radio archives across the continent.",https://en.cerdotola.org/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000152,algeria-cnrpah-oral-heritage-recordings,Ethnomusicology and Oral Heritage Sound Recordings,"Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH)",Algeria,DZ,Africa,Northern Africa,36.7538,3.0588,Arabic; Tamazight,,ethnomusicology; oral tradition; folklore,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1974,,"CNRPAH, Algeria's national research center for prehistory, anthropology and history, has conducted ethnomusicological fieldwork since 1974 and built an audio collection of more than 300 hours of recordings; since 2007 it has coordinated Algeria's national inventory of intangible cultural heritage together with the country's regional cultural departments.",https://cnrpah.org/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000153,libya-lcahs-oral-history-project,Libyan Oral History Project,Libyan Center for Archives and Historical Studies (formerly the Libyan Studies Center),Libya,LY,Africa,Northern Africa,32.8872,13.1913,Arabic,,resistance history; colonial history; oral tradition,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,1978,,"Established in Tripoli in the late 1970s with methodological input from historian Jan Vansina, the Libyan Center for Archives and Historical Studies (formerly the Libyan Studies Center) built a large-scale oral history archive recording testimonies of participants in Libyan resistance to Italian colonial rule and survivors of Italy's concentration camps in Libya.",https://lcahs.ly/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000154,italy-icbsa-sound-archive,ICBSA National Sound Archive,"Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori ed Audiovisivi (ICBSA), Italian Ministry of Culture",Italy,IT,Europe,Southern Europe,41.893,12.4763,Italian,,folklife; music; oral tradition; history,"History & politics; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1928,,"Italy's national sound archive, founded in 1928 as the Discoteca di Stato, holds over 300,000 sound items ranging from Edison wax cylinders to digital recordings, including field recordings of Italian folk music, regional dialects, and oral traditions.",http://www.icbsa.it/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000155,greece-asia-minor-oral-tradition-archive,Oral Tradition Archive of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies,Centre for Asia Minor Studies (Κέντρο Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών),Greece,GR,Europe,Southern Europe,37.9716,23.7296,Greek,,displacement; migration; refugees; oral tradition,Migration & displacement; Oral tradition & folklore,1930,1970,"Founded in 1930 by Melpo and Octave Merlier, the Centre's Oral Tradition Archive gathered testimonies from more than 5,000 Greek Orthodox refugees from Asia Minor, covering roughly 1,475 investigated pre-1922 settlements and documenting daily life, the population exchange, and the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe.",https://www.kms.org.gr/en/archives/oral-tradition-archive/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000156,slovenia-institute-ethnomusicology-sound-archive,Sound Archive of the Institute of Ethnomusicology,"Institute of Ethnomusicology (Glasbenonarodopisni inštitut), ZRC SAZU",Slovenia,SI,Europe,Southern Europe,46.0489,14.5061,Slovenian,,ethnomusicology; folklife; music; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1934,,"Founded in 1934 and now part of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Institute runs a dedicated Sound Archive and Studio (established 1994) of Slovenian and South Slavic folk music, song, and dance recordings, with selected material published through its Etnomuza digital platform.",https://gni.zrc-sazu.si/en,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000157,romania-brailoiu-institute-ethnography-folklore,Constantin Brăiloiu Institute of Ethnography and Folklore Archive,"Institutul de Etnografie și Folclor „Constantin Brăiloiu”, Romanian Academy",Romania,RO,Europe,Eastern Europe,44.4136,26.0836,Romanian,,ethnomusicology; folklore; oral tradition; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1928,,"Successor to the folklore archive that composer-ethnomusicologist Constantin Brăiloiu founded in 1928 under the Society of Romanian Composers, the Institute preserves decades of field recordings of Romanian folk music and oral tradition gathered during Brăiloiu's and sociologist Dimitrie Gusti's village research campaigns and later fieldwork.",https://academiaromana.ro/ief/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000158,latvia-folklore-archives-dainas,Archives of Latvian Folklore,"Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia (Latviešu folkloras krātuve)",Latvia,LV,Europe,Northern Europe,56.9346,24.0972,Latvian,,oral tradition; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1924,,"Established in 1924, the Archives of Latvian Folklore is the oldest folklore archive in the Baltic states, holding more than three million items including manuscripts, and audio and video recordings. Its centerpiece, the Cabinet of Dainas — Krišjānis Barons's card catalogue of over 200,000 Latvian folk songs — was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2001.",https://lulfmi.lv/en/archives-of-latvian-folklore,"UNESCO Memory of the World Register: 'Dainu skapis' (Cabinet of Dainas), inscribed 2001.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000159,lithuania-folklore-phonogram-collection,Lithuanian Folk Music Phonogram Collection,"Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuanian Folklore Archives",Lithuania,LT,Europe,Northern Europe,54.6975,25.3011,Lithuanian,,oral tradition; music; folklore,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1908,1949,"Held at the Lithuanian Folklore Archives, this collection of early phonograph and later tape recordings of Lithuanian folk songs and music, made between 1908 and 1949, was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World national register in 2008 as documentary heritage of regional significance.",https://archyvas.llti.lt/en/lithuanian_folk_music_phonogram_collection/?id=55793,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000160,switzerland-uzh-phonogrammarchiv,Phonogrammarchiv of the University of Zurich,"Phonogrammarchiv, University of Zurich",Switzerland,CH,Europe,Western Europe,47.3746,8.5501,German; French; Italian; Romansh,,linguistics; language documentation; oral tradition,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1909,,"Founded in 1909, Switzerland's oldest sound archive collects, documents, and publishes recordings of Swiss dialects across all four national languages; it is now housed within the University of Zurich's Institute of Computational Linguistics.",https://www.phonogrammarchiv.uzh.ch/de.html,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000161,denmark-folklore-archives-royal-library,Danish Folklore Archives,"Dansk Folkemindesamling, Royal Danish Library",Denmark,DK,Europe,Northern Europe,55.6739,12.5807,Danish,,folklore; everyday life; oral tradition,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1904,,"Established in 1904 and incorporated into the Royal Danish Library in 2008, the Danish Folklore Archives preserves manuscripts, audio recordings, and video documenting Danish folk narrative, custom, song, and everyday life across more than a century of collecting.",https://www.kb.dk/en/find-materials/collections/folklore-archive,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000162,iceland-arni-magnusson-folklore-collection,Folklore Collection of the Árni Magnússon Institute,Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum),Iceland,IS,Europe,Northern Europe,64.1394,-21.9508,Icelandic,,folklore; oral tradition; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1900,,"The Institute's ethnology division holds a large tape-recorded folklore collection of ballads, folk songs, folktales, and descriptions of customs gathered across Iceland and Icelandic settlements in North America, with source material dating back to 1900.",https://arnastofnun.is/en/culture,,Selected recordings from the collection are accessible online via the ismus.is portal.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000163,bulgaria-iefsem-ethnographic-archive,Ethnographic Archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies,"Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFSEM), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences",Bulgaria,BG,Europe,Eastern Europe,42.6941,23.3299,Bulgarian,,folklife; ethnomusicology; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1947,,"Tracing its research lineage to the Institute of Folklore founded by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1947, IEFSEM's Ethnographic Archive holds field-collected written records, photographs, and sound recordings of Bulgarian pre-industrial and traditional culture, with active digitization efforts underway.",https://iefem.bas.bg/en/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000164,croatia-ethnology-folklore-research-sound-archive,Sound Archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research,"Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku), Zagreb",Croatia,HR,Europe,Southern Europe,45.809,15.9971,Croatian,,folklife; ethnomusicology; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1948,,"Founded in 1948, the Institute's Audio Library holds several thousand recordings of Croatian oral literature, folk music and dance, and narrations of custom, gathered from Croatian-speaking regions and Croatian communities living outside Croatia.",https://www.ief.hr/en/archive/collections/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000165,serbia-sasa-institute-musicology-archive,Archive of the Institute of Musicology SASA,"Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA)",Serbia,RS,Europe,Southern Europe,44.8175,20.4581,Serbian,,ethnomusicology; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1948,,"Founded in 1948 as the first musicology institute in the former Yugoslavia, the Institute holds an extensive archive of ethnomusicological field notation and sound recordings of Serbian folk songs and dances, built up through decades of ongoing fieldwork.",https://music.sanu.ac.rs/en/archive/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000166,portugal-fado-museum-digital-sound-archive,Digital Sound Archive (Arquivo Sonoro Digital),"INET-MD (Instituto de Etnomusicologia) and Museu do Fado, Lisbon",Portugal,PT,Europe,Southern Europe,38.7126,-9.1281,Portuguese,,music; oral tradition; everyday life,"Memory & community; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1900,,"A partnership between the Fado Museum and the Institute of Ethnomusicology (INET-MD, NOVA University Lisbon), this digital archive brings together thousands of historical fado recordings dating from the early 20th century, forming Portugal's largest historical popular-music sound repository.",https://www.inetmd.pt/publicacoes/arquivo-sonoro-digital/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000167,belgium-cegesoma-oral-history-wwii,CegeSoma Oral History Interview Collections,"CegeSoma, State Archives of Belgium",Belgium,BE,Europe,Western Europe,50.8362,4.3315,French; Dutch,,war and conflict; oral tradition; everyday life; military history,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,1969,,"Belgium's federal research centre on 20th-century conflict, part of the State Archives since 2016, holds about 1,800 digitized interviews with former WWII resistance fighters, collaborators, and eyewitnesses, plus 1,200 interviews recorded between 1984 and 1998 on daily life under the German Occupation.",https://www.cegesoma.be/en/home,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000168,ukraine-lviv-urban-media-archive,Urban Media Archive Oral History Interviews,"Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv",Ukraine,UA,Europe,Eastern Europe,49.8404,24.0297,Ukrainian; Russian; Polish,,oral tradition; urban history; everyday life; migration,Memory & community; Migration & displacement; Oral tradition & folklore,2004,,"Since its founding in 2004, the Center for Urban History has recorded oral history interviews on urban space, professional biographies, and everyday life across Lviv and East-Central Europe, digitized and annotated for public access in its Urban Media Archive.",https://uma.lvivcenter.org/en/interviews,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000169,slovakia-institute-musicology-folk-music-archive,Folk Music Sound Recordings of the Institute of Musicology SAS,"Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Ústav hudobnej vedy SAV)",Slovakia,SK,Europe,Eastern Europe,48.1633,17.0704,Slovak,,ethnomusicology; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1950,,"The Institute's Department of Ethnomusicology holds Slovakia's most extensive folk-music recording collection: over 3,500 tapes recorded by Institute staff from the second half of the 20th century onward, covering every region of Slovakia and Slovak diaspora communities abroad.",https://uhv.sav.sk/en/,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000170,mexico-fonoteca-nacional,Fonoteca Nacional de México,Fonoteca Nacional de México,Mexico,MX,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,19.3467,-99.1718,Spanish; Indigenous languages of the Americas,Indigenous languages of Mexico,oral tradition; ethnomusicology; linguistics; folklife,"Language & linguistics; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1900,,"Mexico's national sound archive, established in 2008 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, holds and preserves historical and contemporary recordings including music, oral narratives, radio broadcasts and field recordings in Spanish and multiple Mexican indigenous languages, some dating to early wax-cylinder recordings.",https://www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx/,Fonoteca Nacional de México. Retrieved from https://www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000171,mexico-fonoteca-henrietta-yurchenco,Fonoteca Henrietta Yurchenco,Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas (INPI),Mexico,MX,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,19.4326,-99.1332,Indigenous languages of the Americas; Spanish,Indigenous languages of Mexico,oral tradition; indigenous history; ethnomusicology; linguistics,"Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1960,1997,"Named for ethnomusicologist Henrietta Yurchenco, this sound archive held by Mexico's national indigenous-peoples institute comprises more than 11,000 field recordings of indigenous music, oral narratives, interviews and festivals gathered by researchers between 1960 and 1997, plus some of the earliest known recordings of Mexican indigenous music.",https://www.inpi.gob.mx/acervos/fonoteca.html,Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas. Fonoteca Henrietta Yurchenco. Retrieved from https://www.inpi.gob.mx/acervos/fonoteca.html.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000172,guatemala-remhi-centro-memoria-gerardi,REMHI — Proyecto Interdiocesano de Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica,"Centro de la Memoria Monseñor Juan Gerardi (Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado de Guatemala, ODHAG)",Guatemala,GT,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,14.6349,-90.5069,Spanish; Mayan languages,,genocide; human rights; war and conflict; state terrorism; memory and reconciliation; transitional justice,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1995,1998,"Directed by Bishop Juan Gerardi and published as the 1998 report 'Guatemala: Nunca Más', REMHI gathered several thousand oral testimonies from survivors and witnesses of Guatemala's internal armed conflict; the original testimonies and case files are preserved at the archdiocese's Centro de la Memoria, which bears Gerardi's name after his 1998 assassination.",https://www.odhag.org.gt/cmmjg/,,The popularized version of the REMHI report is freely available online; original testimony archives are held for research access at the Centro de la Memoria.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000173,costa-rica-archivo-historico-musical-ucr,Archivo Histórico Musical,"Escuela de Artes Musicales, Universidad de Costa Rica",Costa Rica,CR,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,9.9376,-84.0505,Spanish,,music; folklife; everyday life; history,"History & politics; Memory & community; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1993,,"Founded in 1993 at the University of Costa Rica's School of Musical Arts, this archive rescues, preserves and digitizes Costa Rica's musical heritage, holding scores, photographs and sound recordings from more than 5,600 Costa Rican composers and musicians.",https://archivomusical.ucr.ac.cr/,"Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Artes Musicales. Archivo Histórico Musical. Retrieved from https://archivomusical.ucr.ac.cr/.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000174,cuba-museo-nacional-musica-fonoteca,Fonoteca del Museo Nacional de la Música,Museo Nacional de la Música de Cuba,Cuba,CU,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,23.1367,-82.3553,Spanish,,music; ethnomusicology; folklife; history,"History & politics; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1971,,"Cuba's national music museum in Havana, formed in 1998 from the merger of the earlier Museo y Archivo de la Música with the Odilio Urfé documentation center, holds a sound archive of wax cylinders, reel-to-reel tapes and thousands of discs documenting Cuban musical history, built partly from the Urfé family's private collection.",https://www.ministeriodecultura.gob.cu/es/ministerio-2/directorio-de-entidades/instituciones-nacionales/museo-nacional-de-la-musica,Ministerio de Cultura de Cuba. Museo Nacional de la Música. Retrieved from https://www.ministeriodecultura.gob.cu/es/ministerio-2/directorio-de-entidades/instituciones-nacionales/museo-nacional-de-la-musica.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000175,haiti-radio-haiti-archive-duke,Radio Haiti Archive,"David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University",Haiti,HT,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,18.5944,-72.3074,Haitian Creole; French; English,,political history; human rights; resistance history; war and conflict; everyday life,History & politics; Human rights & justice; Memory & community; War & conflict,1957,2003,"More than 5,300 digitized audio recordings from independent station Radio Haiti-Inter, donated to Duke's Human Rights Archive by co-anchor Michèle Montas after journalist Jean Dominique's 2000 assassination, documenting Haitian politics, culture and daily life from the Duvalier era through the 1991-1994 coup years and beyond, with trilingual (Kreyòl, French, English) metadata.",https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti,"Radio Haiti Archive, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Retrieved from https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti.",Freely accessible online via the Duke Digital Repository.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000176,puerto-rico-archivo-musica-sonido-icp,Archivo de Música y Sonido,"Archivo General de Puerto Rico, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña",Puerto Rico,PR,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,18.4655,-66.1057,Spanish,,music; oral tradition; folklife; everyday life,"Memory & community; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1955,,"A division of Puerto Rico's General Archive under the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, this collection preserves roughly 15,000 musical works by more than 700 composers alongside around 10,000 recordings, including field recordings of poetry recitations, political rallies and workshops documenting Puerto Rican oral testimony.",https://www.icp.pr.gov/archivo-general/,Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. Archivo General de Puerto Rico. Retrieved from https://www.icp.pr.gov/archivo-general/.,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000177,bolivia-archivo-oral-fondo-sonoro-umsa,El Archivo Oral — Fondo Oral Sonoro,"Carrera de Literatura, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA)",Bolivia,BO,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-16.5,-68.15,Aymara; Quechua; Spanish,"Also Mosetén, Guarayo, Tacana, Tsimán and Chiquitano, among others (per the archive's own description).",oral tradition; community memory; folklore; linguistics,Language & linguistics; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1980,,"Run by the Literature program at Bolivia's Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, this archive holds roughly 700 hours of audio with more than 7,000 recorded oral narratives — memories, local histories, testimonies, myths and stories — gathered from highland, valley and Amazonian communities across Bolivia's nine departments, in Aymara, Quechua and other languages.",http://www.literatura.edu.bo/archivo_oral/index.php/archivo/sobre-el-archivo,"Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Carrera de Literatura. El Archivo Oral - Fondo Oral Sonoro. Retrieved from http://www.literatura.edu.bo/archivo_oral/index.php/archivo/sobre-el-archivo.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000178,venezuela-testimonios-audiovisuales-culturas-vivas,Testimonios Audiovisuales de las Culturas Vivas de América Latina y el Caribe del Siglo XX,Fundación Centro de la Diversidad Cultural,Venezuela,VE,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,10.4806,-66.9036,Spanish; Indigenous languages of the Americas,,ethnomusicology; oral tradition; folklife; religion,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore; Religion & belief",1948,1986,"Custodied in Caracas by the Centro de la Diversidad Cultural (successor to the OAS-founded ethnomusicology institute INIDEF, built around Isabel Aretz's field research), this collection of 152,344 images and 23,383 sound recordings of music, legends, games, poetry, prayers and traditional medicine practices from across Latin America and the Caribbean was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in November 2023.",http://www.diversidadcultural.gob.ve/,"UNESCO Memory of the World Programme, Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean (2023 inscriptions); Fundación Centro de la Diversidad Cultural. Retrieved from http://www.diversidadcultural.gob.ve/.",,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000179,uruguay-archivo-oral-memoria-mume,Archivo Oral de la Memoria,"Museo de la Memoria (MUME), Intendencia de Montevideo",Uruguay,UY,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-34.9011,-56.1645,Spanish,,state terrorism; human rights; memory; political history; resistance history,Genocide & mass violence; History & politics; Human rights & justice; Memory & community; War & conflict,1973,1985,"Created by Montevideo's Museum of Memory together with the Association of Friends of MUME, this oral archive holds recorded testimonies from former political prisoners of Uruguay's civil-military dictatorship, including accounts from clandestine detention and torture sites, plus testimonies from relatives of the disappeared, accessible to researchers by appointment.",https://mume.montevideo.gub.uy/archivo-oral-de-la-memoria,,In-person access by appointment; summaries of available testimonies are published on the museum's site.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000180,nicaragua-narrativas-orales-ihnca-exilio,Narrativas Orales — Brigada de Rescate Histórico Germán Pomares Ordóñez,Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica (IHNCA),Nicaragua,NI,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,12.1364,-86.2514,Spanish,,political history; resistance history; war and conflict; community memory,History & politics; Memory & community; War & conflict,1980,1980,"In 1980, alongside Nicaragua's National Literacy Campaign, some 215 university-student brigadistas recorded roughly 6,900 cassette interviews with popular leaders and witnesses about the Somoza dictatorship and the Sandinista Popular Insurrection; the collection was held at IHNCA (Universidad Centroamericana) until the government's 2023 confiscation of the university, after which exiled Jesuit staff republished the digitized collection at 'El IHNCA en el Exilio'.",https://ihncaexilio.org/el-acervo-ihnca/colecciones/,El IHNCA en el Exilio. Colecciones. Retrieved from https://ihncaexilio.org/el-acervo-ihnca/colecciones/.,Freely browsable online following the 2023 relaunch as 'El IHNCA en el Exilio' after the original archive at UCA Managua was confiscated by the Nicaraguan government.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000181,vietnam-institute-musicology-databank,Vietnamese Institute for Musicology Data Bank,Vietnamese Institute for Musicology (Viện Âm nhạc Việt Nam),Vietnam,VN,Asia,South-eastern Asia,21.0285,105.8542,Vietnamese; Multiple languages,multiple Vietnamese ethnic minority languages,ethnomusicology; folklife; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1976,,"Vietnam's national musicology institute, formally independent since 1976, conducts ongoing fieldwork recording traditional and folk music across the country's ethnic groups, including tens of thousands of folk song and instrumental recordings catalogued in a searchable online data bank.",https://www.vienamnhac.vn/data-bank.html,Vietnamese Institute for Musicology. Data Bank. Retrieved from https://www.vienamnhac.vn/data-bank.html.,Catalog entries and some audio browsable on the institute's website; full recordings typically require contacting the institute directly.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000182,thailand-sac-anthropological-archives,Anthropological Archives Database,Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC),Thailand,TH,Asia,South-eastern Asia,13.7739,100.4571,Thai; Multiple languages,multiple Thai regional and ethnic languages,folklore; linguistics; oral tradition,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1991,,"A public anthropological research organization under Thailand's Ministry of Culture that systematically gathers and preserves ethnographic material from across the country, including audio field recordings, in a searchable online Anthropological Archives Database.",https://db.sac.or.th/anthroarchives/en/about-us.php,,Database searchable online in Thai and English; some holdings require an in-person research visit to Bangkok.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000183,indonesia-jaap-kunst-collection-ntt,Jaap Kunst Collection,"Perpustakaan Daerah Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT Regional Library), with University of Amsterdam",Indonesia,ID,Asia,South-eastern Asia,-10.1772,123.607,Indonesian; Multiple languages,"multiple regional languages of Flores, Sumba, Alor, Timor and Kisar",ethnomusicology; music; colonial history,"Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Music, performance & broadcasting",1919,1934,"Colonial-era sound recordings, film footage, and photographs made by ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst across Flores, Sumba, Alor, Timor, and Kisar between 1919 and 1934 were digitally repatriated in 2024 by the University of Amsterdam to the NTT Regional Library in Kupang, where they are now accessible in a dedicated 'Jaap Kunst Corner.'",https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/news/2024/10/uva-returns-sound-recordings-and-film-footage-from-colonial-collection-to-indonesia.html,University of Amsterdam. UvA returns sound recordings and film footage from colonial collection to Indonesia (October 2024).,"Digitized copies freely accessible in person at the NTT Regional Library, Kupang; original recordings remain held at the University of Amsterdam.",,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000184,philippines-hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings,Hinilawod Epic Chant Recordings,"Henry Luce III Library, Central Philippine University",Philippines,PH,Asia,South-eastern Asia,10.7305,122.5637,Karay-a,,epic performance; oral tradition; folklore,Oral tradition & folklore,1956,1957,"Magnetic-tape recordings of the Hinilawod, the epic cycle of Panay, chanted in archaic Karay-a by tradition-bearers Ulang Udig and Narcisa 'Hugan-an' Lingaya and recorded by anthropologist F. Landa Jocano in 1956-57. Inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP) Register in 2024 as the earliest extensive documentation of the Panay epics.",https://library.cpu.edu.ph/hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings-secured-in-unescos-memory-of-the-world-registry/,Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific. Hinilawod Epic Chant Recordings (2024). https://www.mowcapunesco.org/register/hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings-2024/,"Digitized and curated by the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology; original tapes held at Central Philippine University, Iloilo City.",,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000185,malaysia-arkib-negara-oral-history,National Archives of Malaysia Oral History Programme,National Archives of Malaysia (Arkib Negara Malaysia),Malaysia,MY,Asia,South-eastern Asia,3.172,101.674,Malay,,oral tradition; history; community memory,History & politics; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1963,,"Malaysia's national archives has run an oral history programme since 1963, one of the earliest in Southeast Asia, housed within its Documentation and Publication section; interviews recorded through the programme have been used extensively in local historical publications since the 1980s.",https://www.arkib.gov.my/en/,,Registration required for full access; short audio excerpts viewable online via the Archives' Online Finding Aid at ofa.arkib.gov.my.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000186,png-ipngs-music-archive,IPNGS Music Archive,Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies (IPNGS),Papua New Guinea,PG,Oceania,Melanesia,-9.4707,147.1908,Multiple languages,multiple Papua New Guinean languages,ethnomusicology; music; folklife,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1898,,"A government-funded cultural research institute established in 1974 whose Music Archive holds the world's largest collection of Papua New Guinean music recordings and documentation: more than 6,700 collections totalling roughly 12,000 hours of tape, cassette, and digital recordings, including early wax-cylinder and shellac recordings dating to 1898 repatriated from European archives.",https://www.ipngs.gov.pg/,,Access to the archive is by application to IPNGS in Port Moresby.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000187,solomon-islands-national-museum-tapes,Solomon Islands National Museum Analog Tape Collection,Solomon Islands Archives and National Museum,Solomon Islands,SB,Oceania,Melanesia,-9.428,159.9498,Multiple languages,multiple Solomon Islands languages,language documentation; folklife; oral tradition,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1970,,"Around 200 analog tapes held by the Solomon Islands National Museum contain field recordings in local languages and recordings of customary knowledge made from the 1970s by Solomon Islands government agencies and visiting researchers, covering many of the country's 74 languages, several with few remaining speakers.",https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP693,"Endangered Archives Programme, British Library. EAP693: Preservation of Solomon Islands analog recordings.","Digitized copies deposited with the Solomon Islands National Museum, PARADISEC, and the British Library; originals remain in Honiara.",,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000188,fsm-micsem-music-archive,MicSem Music Collection,Micronesian Seminar (MicSem),Federated States of Micronesia,FM,Oceania,Micronesia,6.96,158.2075,Multiple languages,multiple Micronesian languages,ethnomusicology; music; folklife,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1950,1990,"MicSem, a Catholic Church-founded research and public education organization based in Pohnpei since 1992, holds a digitized collection of over 20,000 tracks of Micronesian music, including recordings gathered from government radio stations across Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Yap, the Marshall Islands, and Palau dating from the 1950s onward, searchable through its own website.",https://micsem.org/music/music-listing/,,Music listings and audio streams are freely browsable on the MicSem website.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000189,marshall-islands-alele-museum-archive,Alele Museum Audio-Visual Collection,"Alele Museum, Public Library and National Archives",Marshall Islands,MH,Oceania,Micronesia,7.105,171.38,Marshallese,,folklife; oral tradition; community memory,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1980,1999,"The Marshall Islands' national museum, library, and archive holds a video and audio collection including local television programs, traditional stories and proverbs, and community event recordings from the 1980s and 1990s, some documenting traditions no longer held by living community members.",https://www.alele.org/,,Located in Majuro; the archive functions as the country's designated national archives.,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000190,nepal-madan-puraskar-pustakalaya-audio,Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya Audio-Visual Collection,Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya,Nepal,NP,Asia,Southern Asia,27.671,85.3247,Nepali,,oral tradition; linguistics; folklife,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1955,,"Nepal's principal Nepali-language library and archive, founded in 1955, holds an audio-visual collection of roughly 750 items including oral testimonies, an audio corpus of Nepali speech, transcribed radio interviews, and recorded voices of Nepali writers.",https://madanpuraskar.org/collection-development-2/,,"Materials are held at the library's premises in Patan, Lalitpur; researchers should contact the library directly for access.",,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000191,sri-lanka-national-library-folklore-collection,Folklore Collection,National Library of Sri Lanka,Sri Lanka,LK,Asia,Southern Asia,6.9066,79.863,Sinhala; Tamil,,folklore; oral tradition,Oral tradition & folklore,1990,,"Sri Lanka's national library maintains a dedicated Folklore Collection documenting Sinhala and Tamil oral traditions, folk literature, and related documentary heritage as part of its national holdings.",http://www.natlib.lk/index.php/folklore-collection,,Located in Colombo; materials accessible on-site as part of the library's reference collection.,,,partially_verified,Source URL returned 404 in the 2026-09-21 link check; site restructured. Scope (manuscripts vs. recordings) needs curator review.,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 -MV-000192,activist-women-s-voices,Activist Women's Voices,Activist Women's Voices,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7485,-73.9836,English,,women's history; community memory; oral tradition,Gender & sexuality; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1995,,"An oral history project documenting 35 women activists from community-based organizations in the New York City area, representing Arab-American, Haitian, Hispanic, African-American, and Asian-American communities. The collection covers the period from 1995 to 2000 and is held at the Mina Rees Library at CUNY Graduate Center.",https://gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Centers-and-Institutes/Center-for-the-Study-of-Women-and-Society/Research-Projects,Activist Women's Voices. Retrieved from https://gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Centers-and-Institutes/Center-for-the-Study-of-Women-and-Society/Research-Projects.,,lesbian-herstory-archives; jewish-womens-archive-weaving-words; nmai-archive-center,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q22906176; URL from wikipedia:infobox). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000193,a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland,A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland,A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.4719,-81.6969,English,,community memory; human rights; history,History & politics; Human rights & justice; Memory & community,2015,,"A community-created digital archive launched in 2015 to document experiences of police violence not captured in official narratives. The archive collects photographs and oral testimony from community members via the Omeka platform, grounded in archival activism and community healing from state violence.",https://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org,A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland. Retrieved from https://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org.,,storycorps-national-archive; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q76000748; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000194,archives-of-american-art,Archives of American Art,Archives of American Art,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8979,-77.0227,English,,history,History & politics,1954,,"The Archives of American Art holds over 20 million items of primary resources documenting the history of visual arts in the United States, including more than 2,000 art-related oral history interviews. The collection encompasses papers of artists, materials from galleries, dealers, and collectors, and represents all regions of the country across numerous eras and art movements.",https://www.aaa.si.edu/,Archives of American Art. Retrieved from https://www.aaa.si.edu/.,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q2860568; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000195,association-for-diplomatic-studies-and-training,Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training,Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8676,-77.1015,English,,history; political history,History & politics,1986,,"The ADST's Foreign Affairs Oral History program has recorded over 2,600 oral histories by American diplomats. The organization also produces and shares these oral histories and facilitates publication of books about diplomacy by diplomats and others.",https://adst.org,Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Retrieved from https://adst.org.,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q4809439; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000196,freedom-collection,Freedom Collection,Freedom Collection,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,32.772,-96.7947,English; Arabic; Czech; Spanish,,human rights; political history,History & politics; Human rights & justice,2012,,"Freedom Collection is a digital repository documenting major human rights and freedom movement figures from the 20th and 21st centuries through video interviews and documents. Launched in March 2012 with 56 interviews, it features contributors including former national leaders and civil rights activists from multiple countries. As of 2022, the website had not been updated since 2016 and the YouTube channel since October 2015, with unclear current status.",https://www.bushcenter.org/freedom-collection,Freedom Collection. Retrieved from https://www.bushcenter.org/freedom-collection.,,usc-shoah-foundation-vha; fortunoff-video-archive; armenian-film-foundation,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q17014741; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000197,german-broadcasting-archive-deutsches-rundfunkarchiv,German Broadcasting Archive (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv; DRA),German Broadcasting Archive,Germany,DE,Europe,Western Europe,52.3897,13.1198,German,,broadcast history,"Music, performance & broadcasting",1952,,The DRA is a non-profit foundation supported by ARD that preserves essential aspects of German broadcasting history through sound recordings. It was founded in 1952 as the German sound archive and maintains two locations in Frankfurt am Main and Potsdam-Babelsberg.,https://www.dra.de/,German Broadcasting Archive. German Broadcasting Archive (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv; DRA). Retrieved from https://www.dra.de/.,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q1205934; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000198,j-s-battye-library-of-west-australian-history,J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History,J S Battye Library,Australia,AU,Oceania,Australia and New Zealand,-31.9489,115.861,English,,history,History & politics,1956,,"The J. S. Battye Library is a division of the State Library of Western Australia that holds historical records including oral history tapes, photographs, artworks, films, videos, and non-government records. The library provides reference, copying, genealogical, consultancy, and reader education services.",https://slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning/battye_library,J S Battye Library. J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History. Retrieved from https://slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning/battye_library.,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q6109426; URL from wikipedia:infobox). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000199,moise-a-khayrallah-center-for-lebanese-diaspora,Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies,Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,35.7868,-78.6679,English; Arabic,,migration; community memory; history,History & politics; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,2010,,A research center at North Carolina State University that supports oral history collection and maintains a digital archive of material about the Lebanese diaspora in the US and worldwide. The center has produced documentary and museum exhibition work on Lebanese-American history in North Carolina.,https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/,Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. Retrieved from https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/.,,saada-archive; immigration-history-research-center-umn; storycorps-national-archive,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q22095741; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000200,national-archives-of-the-cook-islands,National Archives of the Cook Islands,National Archives of the Cook Islands,Cook Islands,CK,Oceania,Polynesia,-21.2082,-159.7755,Cook Islands Māori; English,,oral tradition; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Oral tradition & folklore,1974,,"The National Archives of the Cook Islands was established in 1974 to preserve government records, cultural materials, and oral traditions. It holds a collection of over 4,000 images of the Cook Islands from the 1950s from the Donald Stanley Marshall collection.",https://www.culture.gov.ck/category/national-archives/,National Archives of the Cook Islands. Retrieved from https://www.culture.gov.ck/category/national-archives/.,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q16893043; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000201,national-smokejumper-association,National Smokejumper Association,National Smokejumper Association,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,46.8722,-113.9931,English,,history; labor history,History & politics; Labor,1993,,"The NSA preserves the history of smokejumping and aerial fire management through interviews, rosters, photographs, films, letters, reports and publications. It serves as a meeting area for people involved in wildland firefighting and supports preservation of national forests and grasslands.",https://smokejumpers.com/,National Smokejumper Association. Retrieved from https://smokejumpers.com/.,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q6978470; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000202,pangloss-collection,Pangloss Collection,Pangloss Collection,France,FR,Europe,Western Europe,48.8581,2.353,Multiple languages,"about 170 languages, mostly of small, often endangered speech communities",language documentation,Language & linguistics,1996,,"The Pangloss Collection is a digital library developed by the LACITO centre of CNRS in Paris that stores audio recordings in endangered languages from all continents. It provides free online access to documents of connected, spontaneous speech in little-documented languages.",https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/,Pangloss Collection. Retrieved from https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/.,,institut-kurde-paris,,partially_verified,,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q6468667; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000203,preserve-the-baltimore-uprising,Preserve the Baltimore Uprising,Preserve the Baltimore Uprising,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,39.2815,-76.6146,English,,community memory; history; human rights; political history,History & politics; Human rights & justice; Memory & community,2015,,"A crowd-sourced digital archive preserving media created by people and organizations involved in or witnessing the 2015 Baltimore protests following Freddie Gray's death. As of 2018, the collection held over 3,000 documents including images and oral histories, with materials portraying diverse perspectives on the events.",https://baltimoreuprising2015.org/,Preserve the Baltimore Uprising. Retrieved from https://baltimoreuprising2015.org/.,,storycorps-national-archive; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q96400016; URL from wikipedia:infobox). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000204,the-interviews-an-oral-history-of-television,The Interviews: An Oral History of Television,The Interviews: An Oral History of Television,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.0492,-118.232,English,,broadcast history,"Music, performance & broadcasting",1997,,"A project of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that records videotaped interviews with television pioneers and industry professionals. The archive has interviewed over 950 people and posted over 900 interviews online, covering actors, producers, newscasters, and executives from all Emmy-recognized television professions.",https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/,The Interviews: An Oral History of Television. Retrieved from https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/.,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q4787268; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000205,the-outwords-archive,The Outwords Archive,The OUTWORDS Archive,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.0492,-118.232,English,,community memory; human rights,Human rights & justice; Memory & community,2016,,"The Outwords Archive records on-camera interviews with elders from the LGBTQ+ community throughout the United States. The nonprofit's stated mission is to capture, preserve, and share the stories of LGBTQIA2S+ elders to build community and catalyze social change. Their digital collection is made available to the public for free through their website.",https://www.theoutwordsarchive.org/,The OUTWORDS Archive. The Outwords Archive. Retrieved from https://www.theoutwordsarchive.org/.,,storycorps-national-archive; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q65089759; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000206,war-childhood-museum,War Childhood Museum,War Childhood Museum,Bosnia and Herzegovina,BA,Europe,Southern Europe,43.862,18.4285,Bosnian,,war and conflict; community memory; everyday life,Memory & community; War & conflict,2010,,"The War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo collects and presents the memories of children who lived through the Bosnian war, gathered initially through an online platform that received over 1,000 submissions from young adults. The museum displays these recollections through objects, video testimonies, and oral history excerpts.",https://warchildhood.org/,War Childhood Museum. Retrieved from https://warchildhood.org/.,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q28654544; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000207,osterreichische-mediathek,Österreichische Mediathek,Österreichische Mediathek,Austria,AT,Europe,Western Europe,48.1923,16.3487,German,,history,History & politics,1960,,"The Österreichische Mediathek is the Austrian archive for sound recordings and videos documenting cultural and contemporary history. Founded in 1960 as the Österreichische Phonothek by the Ministry of Education, it has been a branch of the Vienna Technical Museum since 2001. It is responsible for preserving Austrian audio-visual cultural heritage, excluding film on photographic carrier material and photography.",https://www.mediathek.at/,Österreichische Mediathek. Retrieved from https://www.mediathek.at/.,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q303798; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000208,oral-history-of-american-music,Oral History of American Music,Oral History of American Music,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.3304,-72.9,English,,music,"Music, performance & broadcasting",1969,,"An oral history project and archive of audio and video recordings consisting mainly of interviews with American classical and jazz musicians. Currently holds approximately 3,000 interviews with more than 900 subjects and is considered the definitive collection of its kind. Housed as a special collection of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University.",https://library.yale.edu/visit-and-study/libraries-locations/gilmore-music-library/oral-history-american-music,Oral History of American Music. Retrieved from https://library.yale.edu/visit-and-study/libraries-locations/gilmore-music-library/oral-history-american-music.,,ralph-rinzler-folklife-archives; association-cultural-equity-lomax,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q22095677; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000209,slave-narratives-a-folk-history-of-slavery-in-the,Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States,Slave Narrative Collection,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.9015,-77.0114,English,,oral tradition; history; community memory; folklife,History & politics; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1936,,"A collection of oral histories and photographs from formerly enslaved people gathered by the Federal Writers' Project across seventeen states from 1936 to 1939. The collection contains more than 10,000 typed pages representing more than 2,000 interviews, now in the public domain and digitized. The Library of Congress holds digitized audio recordings from the project.",https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/articles-and-essays/introduction-to-the-wpa-slave-narratives/wpa-and-the-slave-narrative-collection/,Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/articles-and-essays/introduction-to-the-wpa-slave-narratives/wpa-and-the-slave-narrative-collection/.,,ralph-rinzler-folklife-archives; association-cultural-equity-lomax; nmai-archive-center,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q7539156; URL from wikipedia:infobox). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000210,swaziland-oral-history-project,Swaziland Oral History Project,University of Cape Town Libraries (Emandulo digital collections),Eswatini,SZ,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-26.4667,31.2,Swazi; English,Interviews mainly in siSwati; a selection transcribed and translated into English.,oral tradition; history; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,1985,,"The Swaziland Oral History Project is a research and archival initiative that collects, preserves, transcribes and translates oral histories, clan genealogies and testimonies of Swazi elders, with particular attention to precolonial history of the Swazi kingdom. Materials were developed through cooperation between Swazi archivists, elders and professional historians, and were also transferred to the Historical Papers Research Archive at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.",https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/metadata/SWOHP/index.html,University of Cape Town Libraries (Emandulo digital collections). Swaziland Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/metadata/SWOHP/index.html.,,,,partially_verified,,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q137572000; URL from wikipedia:infobox). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 -MV-000211,schweizerisches-volksliedarchiv,Schweizerisches Volksliedarchiv (Swiss Folk Song Archive),"Empirische Kulturwissenschaft Schweiz (formerly Swiss Society for Folklore), Basel",Switzerland,CH,Europe,Western Europe,47.5596,7.5886,Multiple languages,Swiss folk song; the source does not list the languages or dialects of the recordings.,music; folklore; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1906,,"Founded in 1906 by the Swiss Society for Folklore to collect and study Swiss folk song, the archive in Basel holds song collections alongside sound recordings, including historical field recordings and some 400 records and tapes from the Armin Breu collection; its tape recordings were transferred to digital formats between 1998 and 2000.",https://volksliedarchiv.ch/,"Empirische Kulturwissenschaft Schweiz (formerly Swiss Society for Folklore), Basel. Schweizerisches Volksliedarchiv (Swiss Folk Song Archive). Retrieved from https://volksliedarchiv.ch/.",,,,partially_verified,Recording languages not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 -MV-000212,uysal-walker-archive-turkish-oral-narrative,Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative,"Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University",Turkey,TR,Asia,Western Asia,39.9334,32.8597,Turkish; English,"Tales recorded in Turkish; about 2,000 translated into English by native Turkish speakers.",oral tradition; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1961,,"Folktales and other oral narratives collected in Turkey from 1961 by Ahmet E. Uysal, Warren S. Walker and Barbara K. Walker and donated to Texas Tech University in 1980. The archive's site offers transcriptions and English translations of some 2,000 tales, audio recordings, and over forty hours of Turkish folk music.",https://www.aton.ttu.edu/,"Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University. Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative. Retrieved from https://www.aton.ttu.edu/.",,,,partially_verified,End year of collecting not stated by the source; decade_end left open.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 -MV-000213,bc-archives-sound-heritage-series,Sound Heritage Series sound programs,"BC Archives, Royal BC Museum",Canada,CA,Americas,Northern America,48.4198,-123.3675,English,,history; social history; community memory,History & politics; Memory & community,1976,1983,"Twenty documentary sound programs produced by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia's Aural History Programme to accompany its Sound Heritage publications (1976–1983), built from excerpts of oral history interviews in the archives' collection. The materials are held by the Royal BC Museum, which merged with the provincial archives in 2003.",https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/sound-heritage-series-sound-programs,"BC Archives, Royal BC Museum. Sound Heritage Series sound programs. Retrieved from https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/sound-heritage-series-sound-programs.",,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 -MV-000214,fis-oral-history-of-iran,Oral History of Iran,Foundation for Iranian Studies,Iran,IR,Asia,Southern Asia,35.6892,51.389,Persian; English,The foundation lists interviews by language; English interviews were conducted jointly with Columbia University.,political history; history; national memory,History & politics; Memory & community,1982,,"Begun in 1982 by the Bethesda-based Foundation for Iranian Studies, the program recorded structured interviews with about 180 political, diplomatic, cultural and economic figures of Pahlavi-era Iran, both proponents and opponents of the state's decisions. Tapes and transcripts are kept by the foundation; copies of the English interviews are held in Columbia University's Oral History Archives.",https://fis-iran.org/oralhistory/,Foundation for Iranian Studies. Oral History of Iran. Retrieved from https://fis-iran.org/oralhistory/.,,columbia-oral-history-archives; harvard-iranian-oral-history,,partially_verified,Persian inferred from the foundation's by-language listing; end year not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 -MV-000215,samuel-proctor-oral-history-program,Samuel Proctor Oral History Program,University of Florida,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,29.6436,-82.3549,English,,history; social history; indigenous history; military history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; History & politics; War & conflict,1967,,"Founded at the University of Florida in 1967, the program holds more than 10,000 interviews and sound recordings documenting Florida, the U.S. Southeast and beyond, with major projects on Native American, African American, military and county history; about 8,000 are publicly available through UF Digital Collections. Its projects include the Mississippi Freedom Project interviews with civil rights veterans.",https://oral.history.ufl.edu/,University of Florida. Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Retrieved from https://oral.history.ufl.edu/.,"About 8,000 interviews freely accessible online through UF Digital Collections.",sohp-unc,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 -MV-000216,columbia-oral-history-archives,Oral History Archives at Columbia,"Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.8064,-73.9632,English,,history; political history; social history,History & politics,1948,,"Founded by historian Allan Nevins, who recorded his first interview on 18 May 1948, the archive is widely credited with starting the modern oral history movement. It now holds over 10,000 interviews with people in politics, philanthropy, business, media, medicine, science, law, the military, architecture and the arts, and is open to all at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.",https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml/collecting/oral-history.html,"Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University. Oral History Archives at Columbia. Retrieved from https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml/collecting/oral-history.html.","Open to all researchers at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library.",fis-oral-history-of-iran,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 -MV-000217,bancroft-oral-history-center,Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library,"Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,37.8721,-122.2585,English,,history; political history; social history,History & politics,1954,,"Established in 1954 as the Regional Oral History Office to interview leading figures of the American West — the second university oral history office in the U.S. after Columbia — and renamed the Oral History Center in 2014. Its collection holds over 5,000 interviews with governors, industrialists, artists, activists and scholars, most of them available online.",https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center,"Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library. Retrieved from https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center.",Most interviews available online.,roho-disability-rights,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 -MV-000218,black-women-oral-history-project,Black Women Oral History Project,"Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,42.3764,-71.1226,English,,women's history; social history; civil rights,Gender & sexuality; History & politics; Human rights & justice,1976,1981,"Between 1976 and 1981 the project interviewed 72 African American women, many then in their 70s to 90s, who had made significant contributions to American life in the first half of the 20th century, covering family, education, careers, voluntary and union work, and how race and gender shaped their choices.",https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project,"Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Black Women Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project.",Transcripts and audio are fully digitized and available online through the library's research guide.,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 -MV-000219,queens-memory-project,Queens Memory Project,Queens Public Library and Queens College Libraries (CUNY),United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7057,-73.7967,English; Bengali; Hindi; Korean; Mandarin Chinese; Nepali; Tagalog; Tibetan; Urdu,"The project has produced bilingual episodes in Bangla, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Nepali, Tagalog, Tibetan and Urdu, widely spoken Asian languages in Queens.",community memory; migration; everyday life,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,2010,,"A community archive founded in 2010 by Queens College and Queens Public Library that records oral histories with residents of Queens, New York — one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world — about their neighborhoods, migrations and everyday lives.",https://www.queensmemory.org/,Queens Public Library and Queens College Libraries (CUNY). Queens Memory Project. Retrieved from https://www.queensmemory.org/.,,storycorps-national-archive,,partially_verified,,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 -MV-000220,voices-of-oklahoma,Voices of Oklahoma,"Voices of Oklahoma, in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,36.154,-95.9928,English,,history; community memory; political history,History & politics; Memory & community,2009,,"An oral history website founded in Tulsa by radio broadcaster John Erling, recording in-depth interviews with Oklahomans including political and tribal leaders, entertainers, business figures and survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre; it works in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society.",https://voicesofoklahoma.com/,"Voices of Oklahoma, in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society. Voices of Oklahoma. Retrieved from https://voicesofoklahoma.com/.","Interviews freely available online, with audio and transcripts.",,,partially_verified,Sources give 2009 or 2010 as the start year; languages inferred.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 -MV-000221,west-point-center-for-oral-history,West Point Center for Oral History,United States Military Academy,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.3915,-73.9565,English,,war and conflict; military history,War & conflict,2008,,"A video oral history archive founded at the U.S. Military Academy in 2008 to record the experiences of soldiers, statesmen and others who have shaped the profession of arms, with collections on Vietnam, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the African-American military experience, and women in the military.",https://www.westpoint.edu/directory/center-for-oral-history,United States Military Academy. West Point Center for Oral History. Retrieved from https://www.westpoint.edu/directory/center-for-oral-history.,,veterans-history-project,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +mv_id,id,title,archive,country,iso3166_1_alpha2,region,subregion,lat,lng,languages,language_note,themes,theme_groups,decade_start,decade_end,historical_period_start,historical_period_end,summary,url,citation,access_notes,access,archive_type,related_ids,preview_url,verification_status,verification_note,provenance,date_added +MV-000001,storycorps-national-archive,StoryCorps Archive,StoryCorps / Library of Congress American Folklife Center,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7128,-74.006,English; Spanish,,everyday life; family history; community memory,Memory & community,2003,,,,"Since 2003, StoryCorps has recorded unscripted conversations between everyday Americans about their lives. The full collection is preserved at the Library of Congress, with searchable highlights published in the online StoryCorps Archive.",https://archive.storycorps.org/,StoryCorps / Library of Congress American Folklife Center. StoryCorps Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.storycorps.org/.,Freely accessible online via the StoryCorps Archive; the full recorded collection is preserved at the Library of Congress.,,,911-memorial-museum-oral-history; a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland; moise-a-khayrallah-center-for-lebanese-diaspora; preserve-the-baltimore-uprising; queens-memory-project; the-historymakers; the-outwords-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000002,veterans-history-project,Veterans History Project,"Library of Congress, American Folklife Center",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8951,-77.0364,English,,war and conflict; military history,War & conflict,2000,,,,"A congressionally established program that collects and preserves firsthand video and audio interviews, letters, diaries, and photographs of U.S. wartime veterans from World War I through current conflicts.",https://www.loc.gov/vets/,"Library of Congress, American Folklife Center. Veterans History Project. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/vets/.",Many interviews viewable online via the Library of Congress; the full collection is available by research visit.,partial online,,iwm-sound-archive; korean-war-legacy-foundation; national-wwii-museum-oral-history; vietnam-center-ttu; west-point-center-for-oral-history,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000003,densho-digital-repository,Densho Digital Repository,Densho,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,47.6062,-122.3321,English; Japanese,,migration; incarceration; civil rights,Human rights & justice; Migration & displacement,1996,,1942,1946,"Densho preserves and freely shares video oral history interviews with Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated during World War II, alongside primary-source documents and photographs from before, during, and after that period.",https://ddr.densho.org/,Densho. Densho Digital Repository. Retrieved from https://ddr.densho.org/.,Freely accessible online.,open online,,japanese-american-national-museum; the-historymakers,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000004,usc-shoah-foundation-vha,Visual History Archive,USC Shoah Foundation,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.0224,-118.2851,English; Hebrew; Russian; Polish; Multiple languages,multiple other languages,genocide; Holocaust; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice,1994,,,,"Founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994, the Visual History Archive holds tens of thousands of video testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and later genocides, including in Rwanda, Armenia, Cambodia, and Nanjing.",https://sfi.usc.edu/vha,USC Shoah Foundation. Visual History Archive. Retrieved from https://sfi.usc.edu/vha.,Full testimonies require registration through partner institutions or educational access via IWitness; some clips are public.,registration required,,a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland; armenian-film-foundation; fortunoff-video-archive; freedom-collection; preserve-the-baltimore-uprising; the-outwords-archive; yad-vashem-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000005,ralph-rinzler-folklife-archives,Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections,Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8951,-77.0364,English; Multiple languages,multiple,folklife; music; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1967,,,,"Holds field recordings, oral history interviews, and documentation connected to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, spanning traditions from the United States and around the world.",https://folklife.si.edu/archives,Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Retrieved from https://folklife.si.edu/archives.,,,,association-cultural-equity-lomax; berlin-phonogramm-archiv; oral-history-of-american-music; slave-narratives-a-folk-history-of-slavery-in-the,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000006,nctr-residential-schools,National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation,University of Manitoba,Canada,CA,Americas,Northern America,49.8951,-97.1384,English; French; Indigenous languages of the Americas,Indigenous languages,indigenous history; human rights; residential schools,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Human rights & justice,2007,,,,"The permanent home for the statements, documents, and video testimony gathered by Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission from Survivors of the residential school system.",https://nctr.ca/,University of Manitoba. National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Retrieved from https://nctr.ca/.,,,university or research institute,doris-duke-utah-oral-history,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000007,museu-da-pessoa,Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person),Museu da Pessoa,Brazil,BR,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-23.5505,-46.6333,Portuguese,,everyday life; migration; labor history,Labor; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1991,,,,"A collaborative virtual museum of life stories founded in Sao Paulo in 1991, holding tens of thousands of personal narratives documenting migration, work, and community memory across Brazil.",https://museudapessoa.org/,Museu da Pessoa. Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person). Retrieved from https://museudapessoa.org/.,,,museum,cpdoc-fgv-brazil,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000008,cnmh-colombia,Human Rights and Historical Memory Virtual Archive,Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica,Colombia,CO,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,4.711,-74.0721,Spanish,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2011,,,,"Colombia's national public institution charged with collecting oral testimony and documentation related to the country's decades-long armed conflict, made accessible through its virtual human-rights archive.",https://www.archivodelosddhh.gov.co/,Centro Nacional de Memoria Historica. Human Rights and Historical Memory Virtual Archive. Retrieved from https://www.archivodelosddhh.gov.co/.,,,,lugar-de-la-memoria-peru; memoria-abierta-argentina; museo-palabra-imagen-el-salvador,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000009,memoria-abierta-argentina,Archivo Oral de Memoria Abierta,Memoria Abierta,Argentina,AR,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-34.6037,-58.3816,Spanish,,state terrorism; human rights; memory,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice; Memory & community,1999,,1976,1983,An alliance of Argentine human rights organizations whose oral archive gathers testimony from people affected by state terrorism during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship and the resistance to it.,https://memoriaabierta.org.ar/wp/archivo-oral/,Memoria Abierta. Archivo Oral de Memoria Abierta. Retrieved from https://memoriaabierta.org.ar/wp/archivo-oral/.,,,,cnmh-colombia; museo-memoria-chile; museo-palabra-imagen-el-salvador,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000010,bl-national-life-stories,National Life Stories,British Library,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.5074,-0.1278,English,,social history; labor history; science,"History & politics; Labor; Science, environment & disaster",1987,,,,"An oral history charity based at the British Library that has recorded in-depth biographical interviews since 1987 across industry, science, the arts, and public life, preserved within the British Library Sound Archive.",https://www.bl.uk/about/projects/national-life-stories,British Library. National Life Stories. Retrieved from https://www.bl.uk/about/projects/national-life-stories.,,,,iwm-sound-archive; warwick-modern-records-centre,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000011,tobar-an-dualchais,Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o Riches,"School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh",United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,55.9533,-3.1883,Scottish Gaelic; Scots; English,,oral tradition; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1930,,,,"Digitized recordings from the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies Archives and partner collections, offering thousands of songs, stories, and oral history recorded across Scotland from the 1930s onward.",https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/,"School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh. Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o Riches. Retrieved from https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/.",,,university or research institute,association-cultural-equity-lomax; duchas-national-folklore-collection; estonian-folklore-archives; finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000012,duchas-national-folklore-collection,National Folklore Collection (Duchas),University College Dublin,Ireland,IE,Europe,Northern Europe,53.3498,-6.2603,Irish; English,,folklore; oral tradition,Oral tradition & folklore,1935,,,,"One of Europe's largest folklore archives, held at University College Dublin and digitized via duchas.ie, including the 1930s Schools' Collection of oral tradition gathered by schoolchildren and thousands of hours of sound recordings.",https://www.duchas.ie/en,University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection (Duchas). Retrieved from https://www.duchas.ie/en.,,,university or research institute,finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive; tobar-an-dualchais,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000013,memory-of-nations-czech,Memory of Nations,Post Bellum,Czech Republic,CZ,Europe,Eastern Europe,50.0755,14.4378,Czech; Slovak; English,,totalitarianism; war and conflict; political history,Genocide & mass violence; History & politics; War & conflict,2001,,,,"Built by the non-profit Post Bellum, this online database holds thousands of testimonies from witnesses of 20th-century totalitarian regimes in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, including WWII, the Holocaust, and communist-era persecution.",https://www.memoryofnations.eu/en,Post Bellum. Memory of Nations. Retrieved from https://www.memoryofnations.eu/en.,,,,european-solidarity-centre-archive; karta-center-poland; osa-archivum-budapest; yahad-in-unum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000014,1947-partition-archive,The 1947 Partition Archive,The 1947 Partition Archive,India,IN,Asia,Southern Asia,28.6139,77.209,English; Hindi; Urdu; Punjabi; Bengali; Gujarati; Sindhi,,migration; Partition; displacement,Migration & displacement,2010,,1947,1947,"A crowd-sourced oral history project, founded in Berkeley in 2010, that has recorded over 12,000 witness accounts of the 1947 Partition of British India from survivors across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the diaspora.",https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/,The 1947 Partition Archive. The 1947 Partition Archive. Retrieved from https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/.,,,,citizens-archive-pakistan; nehru-memorial-oral-history,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000015,hiroshima-peace-memorial-testimony,A-bomb Survivor Testimony Archive,Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum,Japan,JP,Asia,Eastern Asia,34.3955,132.4536,Japanese; English,,war and conflict; nuclear history; peace,War & conflict,1986,,1945,1945,"Video testimonies of hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) recorded by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum since 1986, documenting firsthand accounts of the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath.",https://hpmm-db.jp/testify_en/,Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. A-bomb Survivor Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://hpmm-db.jp/testify_en/.,,,museum,nagasaki-peace-memorial-testimonies; okinawa-peace-memorial-museum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000016,dccam-oral-history,Documentation Center of Cambodia Oral History Project,Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam),Cambodia,KH,Asia,South-eastern Asia,11.5564,104.9282,Khmer; English,,genocide; war and conflict; transitional justice,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1995,,1975,1979,"DC-Cam documents the history of the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) through survivor and perpetrator testimony, including an oral history project tied to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.",https://www.dccam.org/,Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam). Documentation Center of Cambodia Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.dccam.org/.,,,,genocide-archive-rwanda; khmer-legacies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000017,palestinian-oral-history-archive,Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA),"American University of Beirut, Issam Fares Institute",Lebanon,LB,Asia,Western Asia,33.8938,35.5018,Arabic,,displacement; refugees; Nakba,Migration & displacement,2011,,,,"Based at the American University of Beirut, POHA holds over 1,000 hours of testimony from first-generation Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, documenting memories of pre-1948 Palestine and subsequent displacement.",https://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Pages/poha.aspx,"American University of Beirut, Issam Fares Institute. Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA). Retrieved from https://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Pages/poha.aspx.",,,university or research institute,ips-narrating-palestine; umam-documentation-research; zochrot-nakba-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000018,aiatsis-collection,AIATSIS Collection,Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies,Australia,AU,Oceania,Australia and New Zealand,-35.2809,149.13,English; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages,,indigenous history; oral tradition; language documentation,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1964,,,,"Australia's national collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage, including decades of oral history interviews and language recordings gathered in partnership with Indigenous communities.",https://aiatsis.gov.au/collection,Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. AIATSIS Collection. Retrieved from https://aiatsis.gov.au/collection.,,,university or research institute,nga-taonga-sound-vision; paradisec-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000019,nga-taonga-sound-vision,Nga Taonga Sound & Vision,Nga Taonga Sound & Vision,New Zealand,NZ,Oceania,Australia and New Zealand,-41.2865,174.7762,English; Māori,,broadcast history; oral tradition; national memory,"Memory & community; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1988,,,,"Aotearoa New Zealand's audiovisual archive, formed from the merger of the Nga Taonga Korero sound archive, the Television New Zealand Archive, and the New Zealand Film Archive, preserving over a century of recorded sound and moving image.",https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/,Nga Taonga Sound & Vision. Nga Taonga Sound & Vision. Retrieved from https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/.,,,,aiatsis-collection,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000020,saha-oral-history,SAHA Oral History Collections,South African History Archive,South Africa,ZA,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-26.2041,28.0473,English; Afrikaans; Zulu; Xhosa,,apartheid; human rights; resistance history,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1988,,1948,1994,"An independent archive founded by anti-apartheid activists, SAHA holds oral history interviews and documents relating to the struggle against apartheid and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.",https://www.saha.org.za/collections/oral_history.htm,South African History Archive. SAHA Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.saha.org.za/collections/oral_history.htm.,,,,district-six-museum; gala-queer-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000021,district-six-museum,District Six Museum Sound Archive,District Six Museum,South Africa,ZA,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-33.9249,18.4241,English; Afrikaans,,forced removal; urban history; memory,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1994,,,,"The District Six Museum's Sound Archive collects recorded interviews with former residents forcibly removed from Cape Town's District Six under apartheid's Group Areas Act, preserving memories of the destroyed community.",https://www.districtsix.co.za/collections/,District Six Museum. District Six Museum Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.districtsix.co.za/collections/.,,,museum,saha-oral-history,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000022,genocide-archive-rwanda,Genocide Archive of Rwanda,Aegis Trust / National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide,Rwanda,RW,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-1.9403,29.8739,Kinyarwanda; French; English,,genocide; transitional justice; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice,2010,,1994,1994,"A digital archive holding over 8,000 survivor and witness testimonies, Gacaca court records, and memorial documentation of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, built with the University of Texas Libraries.",https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/,Aegis Trust / National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide. Genocide Archive of Rwanda. Retrieved from https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/.,Freely accessible online with a searchable video player.,open online,,dccam-oral-history; khmer-legacies,https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/index.php/Category:Survivor_Testimonies,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000023,celhto-oral-tradition-archive,CELHTO Oral Tradition Archive,Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale (African Union),Niger,NE,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,13.5127,2.1128,Hausa; Zarma; Fulfulde; Tamasheq; French,,oral tradition; history; linguistics,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1968,,,,"An African Union research center based in Niamey since 1968 (created with UNESCO support as the Regional Center for Oral Tradition), CELHTO collects, studies, and preserves oral traditions and languages from across Africa on audio, video, and written media.",https://www.celhto.org/,Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale (African Union). CELHTO Oral Tradition Archive. Retrieved from https://www.celhto.org/.,,,intergovernmental body,fondation-hampate-ba; irsh-niamey-boubou-hama; sahel-sounds-field-recordings,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000024,irsh-niamey-boubou-hama,Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines,Universite Abdou Moumouni de Niamey,Niger,NE,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,13.5127,2.1128,Hausa; Zarma; French; Arabic,,oral tradition; manuscripts; history,History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,1944,,,,"Niger's oldest research institution, IRSH grew out of a regional branch of IFAN and continues the documentation work begun by historian Boubou Hama, whose collection of oral sources and manuscripts helped found Niger's tradition of oral-history-based scholarship.",https://irsh-uam.com/,Universite Abdou Moumouni de Niamey. Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines. Retrieved from https://irsh-uam.com/.,,,university or research institute,celhto-oral-tradition-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000025,bird-mali-collections,Charles S. Bird Mali Collections,"Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University",Mali,ML,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,12.6392,-8.0029,Bambara,,oral tradition; epic performance; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1960,2000,,,"Field recordings made by linguist Charles S. Bird together with Malian collaborators, capturing griot performances of the Epic of Sunjata, kora and donso ngoni music, and hunters' songs unavailable in any other archive.",https://libraries.indiana.edu/bird-mali,"Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University. Charles S. Bird Mali Collections. Retrieved from https://libraries.indiana.edu/bird-mali.",,,university or research institute,fondation-hampate-ba; sahel-sounds-field-recordings,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000026,sosso-bala-cultural-space,Cultural Space of Sosso-Bala,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Ministry of Culture of Guinea,Guinea,GN,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,11.42,-9.16,Maninka; French,,oral tradition; griot heritage; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",2001,,,,"UNESCO-recognized heritage centered on the Sosso-Bala, a sacred 13th-century balafon kept in the village of Nyagassola, whose annual ceremonial playing carries the oral epic tradition of the Sunjata story through griot performance.",https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/cultural-space-of-sosso-bala-00009,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Ministry of Culture of Guinea. Cultural Space of Sosso-Bala. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/cultural-space-of-sosso-bala-00009.,,,,ifa-divination-system; moorish-epic-theydinn,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000027,ifa-divination-system,Ifa Divination System,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba babalawo tradition,Nigeria,NG,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,7.4905,4.5521,Yoruba,,oral tradition; divination; religion,Oral tradition & folklore; Religion & belief,2005,,,,A UNESCO-listed oral literary corpus (the Odu Ifa) of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria: an enormous body of verses transmitted orally by babalawo priests and drawn upon in divination practice.,https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ifa-divination-system-00146,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba babalawo tradition. Ifa Divination System. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ifa-divination-system-00146.,,,intergovernmental body,gelede-oral-heritage; sosso-bala-cultural-space,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000028,gelede-oral-heritage,Oral Heritage of Gelede,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba-Nago communities,Benin,BJ,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,7.3667,2.6,Yoruba,,oral tradition; masquerade; women's history,Gender & sexuality; Oral tradition & folklore,2001,,,,"A UNESCO-listed oral and performance tradition of the Yoruba-Nago communities spanning Benin, Nigeria, and Togo, combining masked dance with sung epic and satirical verse that honors women's role in social life.",https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/oral-heritage-of-gelede-00002,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba-Nago communities. Oral Heritage of Gelede. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/oral-heritage-of-gelede-00002.,,,intergovernmental body,ifa-divination-system,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000029,ifan-dakar-sound-archives,IFAN Sound Archives,"Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop",Senegal,SN,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,14.6928,-17.4467,Wolof; French; Multiple languages,multiple Senegalese languages,oral tradition; music; colonial history,"Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1938,,,,"Founded in Dakar in 1938, IFAN holds a large sound archive of West African oral traditions, songs, and epics, including over 1,400 digitized cassette recordings and historic WWI-era recordings of Senegalese soldiers.",https://ifan.ucad.sn/,"Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop. IFAN Sound Archives. Retrieved from https://ifan.ucad.sn/.",,,university or research institute,nketia-archives-ghana; sahel-sounds-field-recordings,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000030,nketia-archives-ghana,J.H. Kwabena Nketia Archives,"Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana",Ghana,GH,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,5.6494,-0.187,Twi; Ga; Ewe; English; Multiple languages,multiple Ghanaian languages,oral tradition; music; ethnomusicology,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1952,,,,"Named for ethnomusicologist J.H. Kwabena Nketia, this archive at the University of Ghana holds the largest and most systematic set of recordings by any African ethnomusicologist: over six decades of field recordings documenting music, oral tradition, and performance across Ghana.",https://ias.ug.edu.gh/content/jh-kwabena-nketia-archives,"Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. J.H. Kwabena Nketia Archives. Retrieved from https://ias.ug.edu.gh/content/jh-kwabena-nketia-archives.",,,university or research institute,ifan-dakar-sound-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000031,sahel-sounds-field-recordings,Sahel Sounds Field Recordings Archive,Sahel Sounds,Niger,NE,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,13.5127,2.1128,Hausa; Zarma; Tamasheq; French; Arabic,,oral tradition; music; griot heritage,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",2009,,,,"An independent record label and blog run by ethnomusicologist Christopher Kirkley since 2009, documenting music and everyday sound across Niger, Mali, and Mauritania, including cellphone-shared recordings, radio broadcasts, and village field recordings published openly online.",https://blog.sahelsounds.com/,Sahel Sounds. Field Recordings from the Sahel. Retrieved from https://blog.sahelsounds.com/.,Freely accessible online via blog and Bandcamp releases.,open online,,bird-mali-collections; celhto-oral-tradition-archive; ifan-dakar-sound-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000032,ibadan-african-studies-audiovisual,African Studies Ibadan Audiovisual and Arabic Manuscripts Archive,"Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan",Nigeria,NG,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,7.3775,3.947,Yoruba; Hausa; English; Arabic,,oral tradition; history; language documentation,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1962,,,,"Founded in 1962, the Institute has long recorded festivals, songs, and oral traditions across Nigeria; a 2021 Arcadia-funded project is digitizing its audiovisual and Arabic-manuscript holdings from West Africa's decolonization period.",https://ui.edu.ng/content/institute-african-studies,"Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. African Studies Ibadan Audiovisual and Arabic Manuscripts Archive. Retrieved from https://ui.edu.ng/content/institute-african-studies.",In-person access at the Institute; digitized portions being released via the Endangered Archives Programme.,,university or research institute,endangered-archives-programme,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000033,zimbabwe-archives-oral-history,Oral History Programme,National Archives of Zimbabwe,Zimbabwe,ZW,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-17.8292,31.0522,Shona; Ndebele; English,,oral tradition; war and conflict; national memory,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,1935,,,,"Zimbabwe's National Archives, established in 1935, runs an Oral History programme with the National Museums and Monuments and the University of Zimbabwe recording testimony of the First and Second Chimurenga liberation struggles in English and local languages.",https://www.archives.gov.zw/,National Archives of Zimbabwe. Oral History Programme. Retrieved from https://www.archives.gov.zw/.,In-person/reading-room access; some liberation-history recordings referenced in public reporting.,on site only,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000034,kenya-national-archives-oral-history,Oral History Collections,Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service,Kenya,KE,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-1.2833,36.8167,Swahili; English; Multiple languages,multiple Kenyan languages,oral tradition; colonial history; national memory,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1965,,,,"Kenya's national archive, established by Act of Parliament in 1965, holds audio cassette recordings of oral histories and folk songs alongside colonial records, government files, and papers of prominent Kenyans.",https://www.archives.go.ke/homepage,Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service. Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.archives.go.ke/homepage.,,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000035,institute-ethiopian-studies,Institute of Ethiopian Studies Audiovisual Archive,Addis Ababa University,Ethiopia,ET,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,9.03,38.7633,Amharic; Ge'ez; Oromo; Multiple languages,multiple Ethiopian languages,oral tradition; ethnomusicology; manuscripts,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1963,,,,"Established in 1963, the Institute holds the world's largest single collection of Ethiopian manuscripts alongside an Audiovisual Materials section with ethnomusicological field recordings documenting Ethiopia's oral and musical traditions.",https://aau.edu.et/institute/IES,"Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University. Audiovisual Archive. Retrieved from https://aau.edu.et/institute/IES.",,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000036,mosireen-858-archive,858: An Archive of Resistance,Mosireen Collective,Egypt,EG,Africa,Northern Africa,30.0444,31.2357,Arabic; English,,war and conflict; human rights; political history,History & politics; Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2011,,,,"A video collective formed during the 2011 Egyptian revolution released 858 hours of raw, timestamped footage of protests and state violence, freely licensed and published as a public archive of firsthand documentation and voice.",https://858.ma/,Mosireen Collective. 858: An Archive of Resistance. Retrieved from https://858.ma/.,"Freely accessible online, indexed and searchable video.",open online,community or independent project,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000037,ircam-amazigh-culture,Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe,Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe (IRCAM),Morocco,MA,Africa,Northern Africa,34.0209,-6.8416,Tamazight; Arabic; French,,oral tradition; language documentation; history,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2001,,,,"Founded by royal decree in 2001, IRCAM researches and promotes Amazigh (Berber) language and culture across Morocco, including documentation of oral literature and dialects through its research centres in Rabat.",https://www.ircam.ma/,Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe. Retrieved from https://www.ircam.ma/.,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000038,fondation-hampate-ba,Fondation Amadou Hampâté Bâ,Fondation Amadou Hampâté Bâ,Côte d'Ivoire,CI,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,5.3599,-3.9906,French; Fulfulde; Bambara,,oral tradition; history; griot heritage,History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,2002,,,,"Based in Abidjan, this foundation preserves the personal archive of Malian writer and ethnologist Amadou Hampate Ba, a lifelong advocate for African oral tradition, including audiovisual recordings and manuscripts now being digitized with UNESCO support.",https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/amadou-hampate-ba,Fondation Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Retrieved via UNESCO Memory of the World: https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/amadou-hampate-ba.,In-person access in Abidjan; digitization and online access underway via UNESCO partnership.,on site only,foundation or nonprofit,bird-mali-collections; celhto-oral-tradition-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000039,moorish-epic-theydinn,Moorish Epic T'heydinn,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Mauritanian griot (iggawin) tradition,Mauritania,MR,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,18.0735,-15.9582,Hassaniya Arabic,,oral tradition; griot heritage; history,History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,2011,,,,"A UNESCO-listed oral epic tradition of Mauritania's Moorish tribes, recited by griot (iggawin) families accompanied by lute, harp, and kettledrum, functioning as each tribe's sung and spoken oral history handed down through generations.",https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/moorish-epic-t-heydinn-00524,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Moorish Epic T'heydinn. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/moorish-epic-t-heydinn-00524.,,,intergovernmental body,sosso-bala-cultural-space,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000040,refugee-law-project-uganda,Documentation of War-Affected Communities,"Refugee Law Project, Makerere University",Uganda,UG,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,0.3476,32.5825,English; Acholi; Luo,,war and conflict; transitional justice; human rights,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1999,,,,"Founded in 1999 as an outreach project of Makerere University's law school, the Refugee Law Project documents testimony and advocates for transitional justice for communities affected by conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda.",https://www.refugeelawproject.org/,"Refugee Law Project, Makerere University. Retrieved from https://www.refugeelawproject.org/.",,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000041,zochrot-nakba-testimonies,Nakba Survivor Testimonies,Zochrot,Israel,IL,Asia,Western Asia,32.0853,34.7818,Arabic; Hebrew,,Nakba; displacement; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; Migration & displacement,2002,,1948,1948,"An Israeli NGO founded in 2002 that collects and publishes video testimonies from Palestinian refugees who witnessed the 1948 Nakba, alongside accounts from Israelis who took part in the 1948 war, to promote public accountability and the right of return.",https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/all/en,Zochrot. Nakba Survivor Testimonies. Retrieved from https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/all/en.,"Freely accessible online, video testimonies with searchable database.",open online,,ips-narrating-palestine; palestinian-oral-history-archive,https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/all/en,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000042,umam-documentation-research,UMAM Documentation & Research,UMAM Documentation & Research,Lebanon,LB,Asia,Western Asia,33.8464,35.4936,Arabic; French; English,,war and conflict; memory and reconciliation; human rights,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2004,,1975,1990,"A nonprofit founded in 2004 in Beirut's southern suburbs that collects documents, interviews, and narratives relating to the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, working to break cycles of blame through public engagement with contested memory.",https://www.umam-dr.org/,UMAM Documentation & Research. Retrieved from https://www.umam-dr.org/.,,,,palestinian-oral-history-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000043,ips-narrating-palestine,Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project,Institute for Palestine Studies,Lebanon,LB,Asia,Western Asia,33.8938,35.5018,Arabic; English,,Nakba; displacement; oral tradition,Migration & displacement; Oral tradition & folklore,2011,,,,"Launched in 2011, this project of the Beirut-based Institute for Palestine Studies digitizes and catalogs Palestinian oral history testimonies gathered by researchers across the region, from Ramallah and Haifa to Beirut, Damascus, and Amman.",https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/227700,Institute for Palestine Studies. Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project. Retrieved from https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/227700.,,,university or research institute,palestinian-oral-history-archive; zochrot-nakba-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000044,institut-kurde-paris,Kurdish Digital Library and Audio Archive,Institut kurde de Paris,France,FR,Europe,Western Europe,48.8566,2.3522,Kurdish; French,"Kurdish (Kurmanji, Sorani)",language documentation; oral tradition; history,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1983,,,,"An independent Kurdish cultural foundation created in Paris in 1983 that maintains a library and audio archive of Kurdish music, spoken recordings, and periodicals aimed at preserving Kurdish language and cultural memory.",https://www.institutkurde.org/,Institut kurde de Paris. Retrieved from https://www.institutkurde.org/.,,,,pangloss-collection,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000045,yad-vashem-testimonies,Survivor Testimonies Collection,Yad Vashem,Israel,IL,Asia,Western Asia,31.7736,35.175,Hebrew; English; Multiple languages,multiple languages,Holocaust; genocide; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice,1953,,1933,1945,"Israel's official Holocaust remembrance authority, established by law in 1953, holds over 125,000 survivor testimonies (written, audio, and video) among more than 210 million pages of Holocaust documentation, with thousands available online.",https://www.yadvashem.org/archive/about/testimonies.html,Yad Vashem. Survivor Testimonies Collection. Retrieved from https://www.yadvashem.org/archive/about/testimonies.html.,Thousands of full testimonies freely viewable online; broader archive by researcher request.,partial online,,armenian-film-foundation; david-boder-voices-of-holocaust; fortunoff-video-archive; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; yahad-in-unum,https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/video-testimonies.html,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000046,harvard-iranian-oral-history,Iranian Oral History Project,Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies,Iran,IR,Asia,Southern Asia,35.6892,51.389,Persian; English,,political history; history; memory and reconciliation,History & politics; Human rights & justice,1981,,,,"Launched at Harvard in 1981 by historian Habib Ladjevardi, this project recorded personal accounts of 134 political leaders and eyewitnesses to major events in Iranian history from the 1920s through the 1980s, now digitized and streamed publicly.",https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/projects/iohp,Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Iranian Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/projects/iohp.,,,university or research institute,fis-oral-history-of-iran,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000047,odysseo-generiques-oral-archives,Oral Archives of Immigration History (Odysseo),Genériques / Les Amis de Génériques,France,FR,Europe,Western Europe,48.8566,2.3522,French; Arabic; Multiple languages,multiple immigrant languages,migration; displacement; labor history,Labor; Migration & displacement,1987,,,,"Founded in 1987, the association Genériques built the Odysseo portal cataloguing sources on immigration to France since 1800, including an oral-history campaign recording dozens of witnesses to 1968-1988 immigrant mobilization and anti-discrimination struggles.",https://www.lesamisdegeneriques.org/,Genériques. Oral Archives of Immigration History. Retrieved from https://www.lesamisdegeneriques.org/.,Digitized sources freely searchable online via the Odysseo portal.,,,domid-migration-museum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000048,iwm-sound-archive,Sound Archive,Imperial War Museums,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.4954,-0.1098,English; Multiple languages,multiple languages,war and conflict; military history; oral tradition,Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,1972,,,,"Established in 1972 as the Department of Sound Records, IWM's Sound Archive is the world's largest oral history archive of its kind, with over 60,000 hours of interviews covering conflicts since 1914 in more than 15 languages.",https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound,Imperial War Museums. Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound.,Many recordings streamable online; full collection via research room visit.,partial online,museum,bl-national-life-stories; fortunoff-video-archive; national-wwii-museum-oral-history; veterans-history-project,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000049,prisons-memory-archive,Prisons Memory Archive,Prisons Memory Archive / Public Record Office of Northern Ireland,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,54.5973,-5.9301,English,,war and conflict; memory and reconciliation; human rights,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2006,2007,1968,1998,"Between 2006 and 2007, filmmakers recorded 161 filmed oral histories with former prisoners, officers, chaplains, and visitors inside Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison, capturing life-storytelling about Northern Ireland's Troubles.",https://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/,Prisons Memory Archive. Retrieved from https://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/.,Selected extracts online; full collection held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.,partial online,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000050,ajr-refugee-voices,AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive,Association of Jewish Refugees,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.5074,-0.1278,English; German,,Holocaust; migration; displacement,Genocide & mass violence; Migration & displacement,2003,,,,"Commissioned in 2003, this UK archive holds 310 filmed interviews totalling 450 hours with Jewish refugees and survivors of Nazi Europe who rebuilt their lives in Britain, with summaries and clips available and full interviews via research partners.",https://www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/,Association of Jewish Refugees. Refugee Voices Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/.,Summaries and short clips online; full unedited interviews via institutional partners.,partial online,foundation or nonprofit,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000051,warwick-modern-records-centre,Working Class and Labour Oral History Archive,"Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick",United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,52.3793,-1.561,English,,labor history; social history; political history,History & politics; Labor,1973,,,,"Established in 1973, the Modern Records Centre holds Britain's largest archive of trade union records and industrial relations history, including oral history recordings documenting the working-class labour movement.",https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/,"Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Retrieved from https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/.",,,university or research institute,bl-national-life-stories; walter-reuther-library,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000052,national-library-wales-sound-archive,Screen and Sound Archive,National Library of Wales,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,52.4153,-4.0829,Welsh; English,,oral tradition; migration; social history,History & politics; Migration & displacement; Oral tradition & folklore,1898,,,,"The National Library of Wales's Screen and Sound Archive preserves recordings of Welsh life dating from 1898 onward, including oral history interviews with Welsh migrants to North America and Patagonia, dialect recordings, and industrial-community testimony.",https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/about-our-collections/screen-sound-archive,National Library of Wales. Screen and Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/about-our-collections/screen-sound-archive.,,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000053,european-solidarity-centre-archive,European Solidarity Centre Archive,European Solidarity Centre,Poland,PL,Europe,Eastern Europe,54.352,18.6466,Polish; English,,labor history; political history; totalitarianism,Genocide & mass violence; History & politics; Labor,2008,,1970,1989,"Operating since 2008 in Gdansk, this archive collects documents, photographs, and personal testimony documenting Poland's Solidarity trade union movement and the wider anti-communist opposition in Eastern Europe from 1970 to 1989.",https://ecs.gda.pl/en/archive/,European Solidarity Centre. Archive. Retrieved from https://ecs.gda.pl/en/archive/.,,,,karta-center-poland; memory-of-nations-czech,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000054,karta-center-poland,Ośrodek KARTA Oral History Collections,KARTA Center Foundation,Poland,PL,Europe,Eastern Europe,52.2148,21.0128,Polish; Russian; Ukrainian,,totalitarianism; war and conflict; political history,Genocide & mass violence; History & politics; War & conflict,1982,,,,"Growing out of an underground publishing project launched in early 1982 during martial law, Poland's largest community archive now holds oral history recordings and biographical accounts documenting Nazi and Soviet occupation, deportation, and communist-era persecution.",https://karta.org.pl/,KARTA Center Foundation. Retrieved from https://karta.org.pl/.,,,foundation or nonprofit,european-solidarity-centre-archive; memory-of-nations-czech; osa-archivum-budapest,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000055,osa-archivum-budapest,Blinken OSA Archivum,Central European University,Hungary,HU,Europe,Eastern Europe,47.4979,19.0402,English; Hungarian; Russian,,totalitarianism; human rights; political history,Genocide & mass violence; History & politics; Human rights & justice,1995,,,,"Founded by George Soros in 1995, this Budapest archive holds Cold War-era records including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty materials and oral history interviews with former Soviet dissidents and Communist Party officials.",https://archivum.org/,"Blinken OSA Archivum, Central European University. Retrieved from https://archivum.org/.",,,university or research institute,karta-center-poland; memory-of-nations-czech,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000056,pcrc-ordinary-heroes,Ordinary Heroes Digital Archive,Post-Conflict Research Center,Bosnia and Herzegovina,BA,Europe,Southern Europe,43.8563,18.4131,Bosnian,,war and conflict; memory and reconciliation; human rights,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2011,,1992,1995,"Founded in Sarajevo in 2011, the Post-Conflict Research Center collects testimony of rescuers and survivors from the 1992-95 Bosnian War through its Ordinary Heroes peacebuilding programme, preserving oral testimonies, letters, and diaries.",https://p-crc.org/our-work/post-conflict-research/rescue-and-survivor-testemonials/ordinary-heroes-digital-archive/,Post-Conflict Research Center. Ordinary Heroes Digital Archive. Retrieved from https://p-crc.org/our-work/post-conflict-research/rescue-and-survivor-testemonials/ordinary-heroes-digital-archive/.,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000057,yahad-in-unum,Holocaust by Bullets Testimony Archive,Yahad-In Unum,France,FR,Europe,Western Europe,48.8566,2.3522,French; Ukrainian; Russian; Polish; Multiple languages,multiple languages,Holocaust; genocide; war and conflict,Genocide & mass violence; War & conflict,2004,,1933,1945,"Founded in 2004 by Father Patrick Desbois, this Paris-based organization has recorded over 7,000 eyewitness interviews across Central and Eastern Europe documenting mass shootings of Jews during the Holocaust, identifying more than 3,000 execution sites.",https://www.yahadinunum.org/,Yahad-In Unum. Holocaust by Bullets Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://www.yahadinunum.org/.,Archive being transferred to Yad Vashem for public research access.,,,memory-of-nations-czech; yad-vashem-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000058,berlin-phonogramm-archiv,Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv,"Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin",Germany,DE,Europe,Western Europe,52.5063,13.2066,Multiple languages,multiple world languages,oral tradition; ethnomusicology; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1893,1954,,,"One of the world's oldest sound archives, the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv preserves about 30,000 wax cylinder recordings made between 1893 and 1954 documenting music and spoken traditions from cultures around the globe, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.",https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/ethnologisches-museum/collection-research/research/sound-recordings-made-by-the-prussian-phonographic-commission/,"Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv. Retrieved from https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/ethnologisches-museum/collection-research/research/sound-recordings-made-by-the-prussian-phonographic-commission/.",,,museum,association-cultural-equity-lomax; austria-phonogrammarchiv; ralph-rinzler-folklife-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000059,romarchive,RomArchive,RomArchive e.V.,Germany,DE,Europe,Western Europe,52.52,13.405,Romani; German; English,,oral tradition; genocide; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice; Oral tradition & folklore,2019,,,,"Launched online in January 2019 after a five-year international project, RomArchive is a digital archive of Roma and Sinti arts and history told by Roma and Sinti themselves, including a dedicated section of oral testimonies from victims of Nazi persecution.",https://www.romarchive.eu/en/,RomArchive. Retrieved from https://www.romarchive.eu/en/.,Freely accessible online.,open online,foundation or nonprofit,austria-phonogrammarchiv,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000060,finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive,Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society,Finnish Literature Society (SKS),Finland,FI,Europe,Northern Europe,60.1699,24.9384,Finnish; Karelian,,oral tradition; folklife; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1937,,,,"Consolidated in 1937 from folklore collections begun when the Society was founded in 1831, this archive holds around 4 million folklore items and 30,000 hours of sound and video, including the field poetry that formed the basis of the Finnish epic Kalevala.",https://www.finlit.fi/en/archives/,Finnish Literature Society (SKS). Folklore Archives. Retrieved from https://www.finlit.fi/en/archives/.,,,foundation or nonprofit,duchas-national-folklore-collection; estonian-folklore-archives; tobar-an-dualchais,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000061,estonian-folklore-archives,Estonian Folklore Archives,Estonian Literary Museum,Estonia,EE,Europe,Northern Europe,58.3776,26.729,Estonian; Võro; Seto,,oral tradition; folklife; language documentation,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1927,,,,"Founded in Tartu in 1927, Estonia's central folklore archive holds roughly 1.5 million manuscript pages, 188,000 sound recordings, and 1,700 films documenting Estonian and Seto folk song, storytelling, and oral tradition.",https://www.kirmus.ee/en/about-us/departments/estonian-folklore-archives,Estonian Literary Museum. Estonian Folklore Archives. Retrieved from https://www.kirmus.ee/en/about-us/departments/estonian-folklore-archives.,,,museum,finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive; tobar-an-dualchais,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000062,georgia-traditional-polyphony-center,International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony,Tbilisi Vano Sarajishvili State Conservatoire,Georgia,GE,Asia,Western Asia,41.71,44.79,Georgian,,oral tradition; music; ethnomusicology,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",2002,,,,"Established with UNESCO support in 2002-2003, this Tbilisi research centre studies and documents Georgian traditional vocal polyphony, an oral musical tradition inscribed on UNESCO's list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.",https://polyphony.ge/en/home-2/,"International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony, Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Retrieved from https://polyphony.ge/en/home-2/.",,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000063,ahotsak-basque-oral-archive,Ahotsak.eus Basque Oral Archive,Badihardugu Association,Spain,ES,Europe,Southern Europe,43.263,-2.935,Basque; Spanish; French,,oral tradition; language documentation; social history,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2003,,,,"Since 2003, this project has video-recorded interviews with more than 6,000 Basque speakers over age 75 across Spain and France, documenting Basque dialects, local history, and 20th-century historical memory.",https://ahotsak.eus/english/,Badihardugu Association. Ahotsak.eus Basque Oral Archive. Retrieved from https://ahotsak.eus/english/.,"Freely accessible online, catalogued by topic and town.",open online,foundation or nonprofit,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000064,isof-sweden-folklore,"Dialect, Name, and Folklore Archives",Institutet för sprak och folkminnen (Isof),Sweden,SE,Europe,Northern Europe,59.8586,17.6389,Swedish; Sámi languages; Finnish,Sami,oral tradition; folklife; language documentation,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2006,,,,"Sweden's government agency for language and folklore, in its current form since a 2006 institutional merger, holds archives of dialect recordings, folk music, and folklore gathered from across the country and Swedish-speaking areas abroad.",https://www.isof.se/,Institutet för sprak och folkminnen (Isof). Retrieved from https://www.isof.se/.,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000065,austria-phonogrammarchiv,Phonogrammarchiv,Austrian Academy of Sciences,Austria,AT,Europe,Western Europe,48.2082,16.3738,Multiple languages,multiple world languages,oral tradition; ethnomusicology; language documentation,"Language & linguistics; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1899,,,,"Founded in 1899, the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv is the world's oldest audiovisual research archive, holding field recordings of languages, dialects, and non-European music made chiefly by Austrian scholars, many inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.",https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/phonogrammarchiv/history-of-the-pha,Austrian Academy of Sciences. Phonogrammarchiv. Retrieved from https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/phonogrammarchiv/history-of-the-pha.,,,university or research institute,berlin-phonogramm-archiv; romarchive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000066,sami-archives-norway,The Sami Archives,National Archival Services of Norway,Norway,NO,Europe,Northern Europe,69.0125,23.0412,Northern Sámi; Norwegian,,indigenous history; oral tradition; language documentation,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1988,,,,"Located at the Sami academic park Diehtosiida in Kautokeino, the Sami Archives has preserved material relating to the Sami people since 1988, and since 2005 operates as part of Norway's National Archival Services.",https://www.arkivverket.no/om-oss/samisk-arkiv,National Archival Services of Norway. The Sami Archives. Retrieved from https://www.arkivverket.no/om-oss/samisk-arkiv.,,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000067,singapore-oral-history-centre,Oral History Centre,National Archives of Singapore,Singapore,SG,Asia,South-eastern Asia,1.2833,103.85,English; Mandarin Chinese; Malay; Tamil,,national memory; everyday life; social history,History & politics; Memory & community,1979,,,,"Set up in 1979, Singapore's Oral History Centre records life stories and eyewitness accounts documenting the nation's diverse voices, from leaders and innovators to ordinary residents who witnessed historical change.",https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/about-us,National Archives of Singapore. Oral History Centre. Retrieved from https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/about-us.,Interviews searchable online; full recordings subject to interviewee consent.,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000068,citizens-archive-pakistan,Oral History Project,Citizens Archive of Pakistan,Pakistan,PK,Asia,Southern Asia,24.8607,67.0011,Urdu; English; Punjabi; Sindhi,,Partition; displacement; migration,Migration & displacement,2007,,,,"Founded in 2007 in Karachi, this nonprofit's Oral History Project has recorded over 5,000 testimonies, beginning with survivors of the 1947 Partition and expanding to broader South Asian historical narratives.",https://citizensarchive.org/portfolio-item/oral-history-project/,Citizens Archive of Pakistan. Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://citizensarchive.org/portfolio-item/oral-history-project/.,,,,1947-partition-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000069,nehru-memorial-oral-history,Oral History Division,Nehru Memorial Museum and Library,India,IN,Asia,Southern Asia,28.5921,77.1998,Hindi; English,,political history; history; national memory,History & politics; Memory & community,1966,,,,"Organized beginning in 1966, this division of India's Nehru Memorial Museum and Library recorded reminiscences of figures connected to Gandhi and Nehru and participants in India's freedom struggle, later expanding to economic and cultural history; 838 transcripts are held.",https://nehruportal.nic.in/oral-history,Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Oral History Division. Retrieved from https://nehruportal.nic.in/oral-history.,,,museum,1947-partition-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000070,sparrow-india,SPARROW: Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women,SPARROW,India,IN,Asia,Southern Asia,19.2183,72.8493,Hindi; Tamil; English; Multiple languages,multiple Indian languages,women's history; oral tradition; everyday life,Gender & sexuality; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1988,,,,"Founded in Mumbai in 1988 by writer C.S. Lakshmi, SPARROW is India's largest archive of women's history, holding oral history recordings, personal papers, photographs, and documentary films centering women's own accounts of social change.",https://www.sparrowonline.org/,SPARROW. Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women. Retrieved from https://www.sparrowonline.org/.,,,,sophia-smith-voices-of-feminism,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000071,hong-kong-memory-project,Hong Kong Memory Project,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,Hong Kong,HK,Asia,Eastern Asia,22.3193,114.1694,Cantonese; English,,oral tradition; everyday life; national memory,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,2006,,,,"Begun in 2006, this digital repository gathers oral history and multimedia documentation of Hong Kong's history and culture, covering topics from Kai Tak Airport's neighbourhood to village life and traditional festivals.",https://www.hkmemory.hk/en/index.html,Hong Kong Memory Project. Retrieved from https://www.hkmemory.hk/en/index.html.,Freely accessible online.,open online,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000072,shanghai-comfort-women-museum,"Chinese ""Comfort Women"" History Museum and Research Center",Shanghai Normal University,China,CN,Asia,Eastern Asia,31.1631,121.4184,Mandarin Chinese,,war and conflict; women's history; human rights,Gender & sexuality; Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1999,,,,"Since founding a research center in 1999, historian Su Zhiliang and colleagues have recorded testimony from more than 100 Chinese survivors of Japan's wartime military sexual slavery system, opening a dedicated museum on campus in 2016.",https://www.shnu.edu.cn/,"Shanghai Normal University. Chinese ""Comfort Women"" History Museum and Research Center. Retrieved from https://www.shnu.edu.cn/.",,,university or research institute,house-of-sharing-korea,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000073,jeju43-peace-foundation,Jeju 4.3 Archives,Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation,South Korea,KR,Asia,Eastern Asia,33.4996,126.5312,Korean,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2008,,1947,1954,"Established in 2008, this foundation manages Jeju's Peace Memorial Hall and an archive of over 14,600 victim and bereaved-family testimonies documenting the 1947-54 Jeju uprising and massacre, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2025.",http://jeju43peace.org/,Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation. Jeju 4.3 Archives. Retrieved from http://jeju43peace.org/.,,,foundation or nonprofit,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000074,house-of-sharing-korea,Museum of Sexual Slavery by the Japanese Military,House of Sharing,South Korea,KR,Asia,Eastern Asia,37.4292,127.2145,Korean; English; Japanese,,war and conflict; women's history; human rights,Gender & sexuality; Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1992,,,,"Founded in 1992 as a residence for surviving Korean 'comfort women,' the House of Sharing includes the world's first museum devoted to wartime sexual slavery, preserving the testimonies, belongings, and artwork of its former residents.",http://www.nanum.org/,House of Sharing. Museum of Sexual Slavery by the Japanese Military. Retrieved from http://www.nanum.org/.,,,,shanghai-comfort-women-museum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000075,korean-war-legacy-foundation,Korean War Legacy Foundation Interview Archive,Korean War Legacy Foundation,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,43.0481,-76.1474,English; Korean; Multiple languages,multiple UN-participant languages,war and conflict; military history,War & conflict,2005,,1950,1953,"Growing from a 2005 encounter with Syracuse-area veterans, this foundation built the world's largest archive of Korean War oral histories, with over 1,500 recorded interviews of veterans from dozens of participating countries.",https://koreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/,Korean War Legacy Foundation. Interview Archive. Retrieved from https://koreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/.,"Freely accessible online, searchable video library.",open online,foundation or nonprofit,veterans-history-project,https://koreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000076,taiwan-human-rights-museum-white-terror,White Terror Oral History Archive,National Human Rights Museum,Taiwan,TW,Asia,Eastern Asia,24.9737,121.5398,Mandarin Chinese; Taiwanese Hokkien,,political history; human rights; memory and reconciliation,History & politics; Human rights & justice,2011,,1949,1987,"A preparatory office founded in 2011 (formally established as a museum in 2018) has recorded oral history interviews with more than 500 political prisoners and their families, documenting Taiwan's 1949-1987 White Terror era of martial-law repression.",https://www.nhrm.gov.tw/w/nhrmEN/About,National Human Rights Museum. White Terror Oral History Archive. Retrieved from https://www.nhrm.gov.tw/w/nhrmEN/About.,,,museum,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000077,vietnam-center-ttu,Oral History Project,"The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,33.5779,-101.8552,English; Vietnamese,,war and conflict; military history; migration,Migration & displacement; War & conflict,1999,,1955,1975,"Since 1999, this project of the world's largest nongovernmental Vietnam War archive has collected over 1,100 oral history interviews with American veterans, Vietnamese allies and opponents, protesters, and family members, available via its Virtual Vietnam Archive.",https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/,"The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University. Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/.",,,university or research institute,veterans-history-project,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000078,liberation-war-museum-bangladesh,Liberation War Museum Oral History Archive,Liberation War Museum,Bangladesh,BD,Asia,Southern Asia,23.7797,90.3639,Bengali; English,,war and conflict; national memory; displacement,Memory & community; Migration & displacement; War & conflict,1996,,1971,1971,"Established in Dhaka in 1996, the Liberation War Museum has coordinated student-led oral history collection nationwide, gathering some 70,000 eyewitness accounts of Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War alongside its collection of wartime artifacts.",https://www.liberationwarmuseumbd.org/,Liberation War Museum. Oral History Archive. Retrieved from https://www.liberationwarmuseumbd.org/.,,,museum,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000079,nagasaki-peace-memorial-testimonies,Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors,Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims,Japan,JP,Asia,Eastern Asia,32.7736,129.8636,Japanese; English,,war and conflict; nuclear history; peace,War & conflict,2003,,1945,1945,"Opened in 2003, this Nagasaki memorial hall records and preserves video testimony from hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), documenting firsthand accounts of the 1945 atomic bombing and postwar life, alongside a searchable photograph and record database.",https://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/en/,Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims. Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors. Retrieved from https://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/en/.,,,,hiroshima-peace-memorial-testimony; okinawa-peace-memorial-museum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000080,okinawa-peace-memorial-museum,Battle of Okinawa Survivor Testimonies,Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum,Japan,JP,Asia,Eastern Asia,26.0908,127.7128,Japanese; Okinawan; English,,war and conflict; peace; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1975,,1945,1945,"Established in 1975 in Itoman, this museum has documented written and video testimonies of Battle of Okinawa survivors since its founding, honoring the memory of all who perished in the 1945 battle regardless of nationality or military status.",https://www.peace-museum.okinawa.jp/english/,Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum. Battle of Okinawa Survivor Testimonies. Retrieved from https://www.peace-museum.okinawa.jp/english/.,,,museum,hiroshima-peace-memorial-testimony; nagasaki-peace-memorial-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000081,michinoku-shinrokuden,Michinoku Shinrokuden,"International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University",Japan,JP,Asia,Eastern Asia,38.2682,140.8694,Japanese; English,,disaster and survivor testimony; everyday life; memory and reconciliation,"Human rights & justice; Memory & community; Science, environment & disaster",2011,,2011,2011,"Launched in September 2011, this Tohoku University digital archive collects photographs, records, and firsthand testimonies and stories of the thoughts and memories of survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, with civic contributions welcomed.",https://search.shinrokuden.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/shinrokuden/,"International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. Michinoku Shinrokuden. Retrieved from https://search.shinrokuden.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/shinrokuden/.",Freely accessible online; open to public contributions.,open online,university or research institute,hurricane-digital-memory-bank,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000082,ainu-museum-nibutani,Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum,"Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum, Biratori Town",Japan,JP,Asia,Eastern Asia,42.6939,142.0158,Ainu; Japanese,,indigenous history; oral tradition; language documentation,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1992,,,,"Opened in 1992 in the Ainu community of Nibutani, Hokkaido, this museum preserves and screens recordings of yukar (heroic epics) and other Ainu oral traditions passed down by word of mouth for generations.",https://www.town.biratori.hokkaido.jp/,"Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum, Biratori Town. Retrieved from https://www.town.biratori.hokkaido.jp/.",,,museum,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000083,vanuatu-cultural-centre-archive,Film and Audio Archive,Vanuatu Cultural Centre,Vanuatu,VU,Oceania,Melanesia,-17.7333,168.3167,Bislama; English; French; Multiple languages,multiple ni-Vanuatu languages,oral tradition; folklife; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Oral tradition & folklore,1955,,,,"Vanuatu's national cultural institution, tracing its origins to 1955, maintains a Film and Audio Archive and a national heritage registry documenting kastom (customary) oral traditions, ceremonies, and languages across the archipelago's many communities.",https://vanuatuculturalcentre.gov.vu/,Vanuatu Cultural Centre. Film and Audio Archive. Retrieved from https://vanuatuculturalcentre.gov.vu/.,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000084,itaukei-institute-fiji,iTaukei Institute of Language and Culture,iTaukei Affairs Board,Fiji,FJ,Oceania,Melanesia,-18.1248,178.4501,Fijian; English,,oral tradition; language documentation; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1974,,,,"Evolving from a Fijian dictionary project begun in 1974, this institute is custodian of iTaukei dialects and oral traditions across Fiji's fourteen provinces, running a Cultural Mapping Programme recording traditional knowledge village by village.",https://www.itaukeiaffairs.gov.fj/index.php/divisions/tilc,iTaukei Affairs Board. iTaukei Institute of Language and Culture. Retrieved from https://www.itaukeiaffairs.gov.fj/index.php/divisions/tilc.,,,government agency,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000085,paradisec-archive,PARADISEC,Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures,Australia,AU,Oceania,Australia and New Zealand,-33.8886,151.1873,Multiple languages,multiple Pacific and Southeast Asian languages,language documentation; oral tradition; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2003,,,,"Established in 2003, this digital archive preserves endangered field recordings from Oceania and Southeast Asia, holding 20,500 hours of audio and 4,000 hours of video documenting 1,291 languages that would otherwise risk being lost.",https://www.paradisec.org.au/,PARADISEC. Retrieved from https://www.paradisec.org.au/.,,,,aiatsis-collection; ailla-archive; elar-soas,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000086,australian-queer-archives,Australian Queer Archives,Australian Queer Archives (AQuA),Australia,AU,Oceania,Australia and New Zealand,-37.8567,144.9749,English,,LGBTQ+ history; social history; community memory,Gender & sexuality; History & politics; Memory & community,1978,,,,"Established in Melbourne in 1978 as the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, AQuA holds over 500,000 items including oral history and audio recordings, the largest collection relating to LGBTQI+ Australians.",https://queerarchives.org.au/,Australian Queer Archives (AQuA). Retrieved from https://queerarchives.org.au/.,,,,gala-queer-archive; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000087,gala-queer-archive,GALA Queer Archive,GALA Queer Archive,South Africa,ZA,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-26.1929,28.0305,English; Afrikaans; Zulu; Xhosa,,LGBTQ+ history; human rights; community memory,Gender & sexuality; Human rights & justice; Memory & community,1997,,,,"Founded in Johannesburg in 1997 as Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action, GALA documents LGBTQIA+ history and culture in South Africa and the region, including oral history projects on lesbian narratives and African women's queer experience.",https://gala.co.za/,GALA Queer Archive. Retrieved from https://gala.co.za/.,,,,australian-queer-archives; one-archives-usc; saha-oral-history,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000088,one-archives-usc,ONE Archives at the USC Libraries,University of Southern California Libraries,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.0224,-118.2851,English,,LGBTQ+ history; social history; community memory,Gender & sexuality; History & politics; Memory & community,1952,,,,"Founded in 1952 and housed at USC Libraries since 2010, ONE Archives is the largest LGBTQ archive in the world, holding over two million items including thousands of oral history video and audio recordings.",https://one.usc.edu/,ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Retrieved from https://one.usc.edu/.,,,university or research institute,a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland; australian-queer-archives; gala-queer-archive; glbt-historical-society; lesbian-herstory-archives; preserve-the-baltimore-uprising; the-outwords-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000089,lesbian-herstory-archives,Lesbian Herstory Archives,Lesbian Herstory Archives,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.671,-73.9814,English,,LGBTQ+ history; women's history; community memory,Gender & sexuality; Memory & community,1974,,,,"Founded in 1974 by members of New York's Gay Academic Union, the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn holds the world's largest collection of lesbian history, including roughly 3,000 oral history cassette recordings and 950 videotapes.",https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/,Lesbian Herstory Archives. Retrieved from https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/.,,,,activist-women-s-voices; glbt-historical-society; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000090,glbt-historical-society,GLBT Historical Society Archives,GLBT Historical Society,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,37.7749,-122.4194,English,,LGBTQ+ history; social history; community memory,Gender & sexuality; History & politics; Memory & community,1985,,,,"Founded in San Francisco in 1985, the GLBT Historical Society holds an oral history collection begun in 1992 and later projects including the San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project chronicling AIDS-era direct-action organizing.",https://www.glbthistory.org/archives-about-visitor-info,GLBT Historical Society. Archives. Retrieved from https://www.glbthistory.org/archives-about-visitor-info.,,,foundation or nonprofit,lesbian-herstory-archives; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000091,black-cultural-archives-windrush,Windrush Generation Oral Histories,Black Cultural Archives,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.4613,-0.1156,English,,migration; displacement; community memory,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1981,,,,"Founded in Brixton in 1981, the Black Cultural Archives holds oral history interviews with members of the Windrush generation and Black Women's Movement, documenting the postwar migration of Caribbean and African communities to Britain.",https://blackculturalarchives.org/our-story,Black Cultural Archives. Windrush Generation Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://blackculturalarchives.org/our-story.,,,,domid-migration-museum; saada-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000092,walter-reuther-library,Walter P. Reuther Library Oral History Collection,Wayne State University,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,42.3573,-83.0673,English,,labor history; social history; civil rights,History & politics; Human rights & justice; Labor,1960,,,,"Founded in 1960 as the Labor History Archives, North America's largest labor archive holds oral history recordings alongside the papers of unions and labor leaders documenting the American labor movement from Detroit's auto industry outward.",https://reuther.wayne.edu/memory,"Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://reuther.wayne.edu/memory.",In-person/reading-room access; recordings requested via the Audiovisual Department.,on site only,university or research institute,sohp-unc; warwick-modern-records-centre,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000093,sophia-smith-voices-of-feminism,Voices of Feminism Oral History Project,"Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,42.3168,-72.6412,English; Spanish,,women's history; civil rights; labor history,Gender & sexuality; Human rights & justice; Labor,1990,2006,,,"Recorded between 1990 and 2006 and expanded with Ford Foundation funding, this project documents grassroots feminist organizing in the late 20th-century United States through five-to-six-hour interviews with labor, anti-racism, lesbian-rights, and reproductive-justice activists.",https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/research-collections/resources-lists/oral-histories/voices-of-feminism,"Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/research-collections/resources-lists/oral-histories/voices-of-feminism.",,,university or research institute,jewish-womens-archive-weaving-words; sparrow-india,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000094,jewish-womens-archive-weaving-words,Weaving Women's Words,Jewish Women's Archive,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,42.3601,-71.0589,English,,women's history; everyday life; community memory,Gender & sexuality; Memory & community,2001,,,,"This early-2000s Jewish Women's Archive initiative recorded oral histories with 30 Jewish women each in Baltimore and Seattle, all born in the early 20th century, capturing decades of social change through their working and family lives.",https://jwa.org/oralhistories,Jewish Women's Archive. Weaving Women's Words. Retrieved from https://jwa.org/oralhistories.,Full audio and transcripts freely available via the Internet Archive.,open online,,activist-women-s-voices; sophia-smith-voices-of-feminism,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000095,association-cultural-equity-lomax,Alan Lomax Archive / Global Jukebox,Association for Cultural Equity,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7685,-73.9645,Multiple languages,multiple world languages,oral tradition; folklife; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1933,,,,"Housing the life's work of folklorist Alan Lomax, who began field recording in the 1930s across the American South, Britain, Spain, Italy, and the Caribbean, this Hunter College-based archive now streams over 6,000 songs from 1,000 cultures via its Global Jukebox platform.",https://www.culturalequity.org/,Association for Cultural Equity. Alan Lomax Archive / Global Jukebox. Retrieved from https://www.culturalequity.org/.,Freely accessible online via the Global Jukebox.,open online,foundation or nonprofit,berlin-phonogramm-archiv; oral-history-of-american-music; ralph-rinzler-folklife-archives; slave-narratives-a-folk-history-of-slavery-in-the; tobar-an-dualchais,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000096,the-historymakers,The HistoryMakers Digital Archive,The HistoryMakers,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.8781,-87.6298,English,,civil rights; everyday life; community memory,Human rights & justice; Memory & community,1999,,,,"Founded in Chicago in 1999, The HistoryMakers has recorded over 11,000 hours of video oral history across more than 400 U.S. cities, forming the single largest collection of African American first-person video testimony in the world, now preserved at the Library of Congress.",https://www.thehistorymakers.org/,The HistoryMakers. Digital Archive. Retrieved from https://www.thehistorymakers.org/.,,,,densho-digital-repository; storycorps-national-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000097,sohp-unc,Southern Oral History Program,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,35.9132,-79.0558,English,,social history; civil rights; labor history,History & politics; Human rights & justice; Labor,1973,,,,"Founded in 1973, the Southern Oral History Program stewards more than 6,000 interviews documenting the U.S. South, from Civil Rights Movement activists and millworkers to educators and community leaders.",https://sohp.org/,"Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved from https://sohp.org/.",,,university or research institute,samuel-proctor-oral-history-program; walter-reuther-library,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000098,elar-soas,Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR),SOAS University of London,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.5222,-0.13,Multiple languages,multiple endangered languages,language documentation; oral tradition; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2002,,,,"Based at SOAS since the early 2000s, ELAR is a digital repository of endangered-language documentation from around the world, with regional strongholds in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and South America, mostly freely accessible after registration.",https://www.elararchive.org/,SOAS University of London. Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR). Retrieved from https://www.elararchive.org/.,,,university or research institute,ailla-archive; endangered-archives-programme; paradisec-archive; tla-dobes,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000099,ailla-archive,Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA),University of Texas at Austin,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,30.2849,-97.7341,Indigenous languages of the Americas,multiple Indigenous Latin American languages,language documentation; indigenous history; oral tradition,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2000,,,,"Founded in 2000, AILLA is a digital repository preserving field notes, narratives, songs, and oratory recordings documenting Indigenous languages of Latin America, freely accessible online in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.",https://ailla.utexas.org/,University of Texas at Austin. Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA). Retrieved from https://ailla.utexas.org/.,,,university or research institute,elar-soas; paradisec-archive; tla-dobes,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000100,tla-dobes,The Language Archive / DoBeS,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,Netherlands,NL,Europe,Western Europe,51.8126,5.8372,Multiple languages,multiple endangered languages,language documentation; oral tradition; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2000,,,,"Launched in 2000 with VolkswagenFoundation funding, the DoBeS programme has funded around 50 endangered-language documentation projects worldwide, with annotated recordings stored at Nijmegen's Language Archive; select collections joined UNESCO's Memory of the World register in 2015.",https://tla.mpi.nl/,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The Language Archive / DoBeS. Retrieved from https://tla.mpi.nl/.,,,university or research institute,ailla-archive; elar-soas,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000101,alaska-native-language-archive,Michael E. Krauss Alaska Native Language Archive,University of Alaska Fairbanks,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,64.857,-147.834,Indigenous languages of the Americas,multiple Alaska Native languages,language documentation; indigenous history; oral tradition,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1972,,,,"Created by state legislation in 1972 alongside the Alaska Native Language Center, this Fairbanks archive holds over 15,000 documents and audio recordings dating to the 1940s documenting the twenty Native languages of Alaska.",https://www.uaf.edu/anla/,University of Alaska Fairbanks. Michael E. Krauss Alaska Native Language Archive. Retrieved from https://www.uaf.edu/anla/.,,,university or research institute,project-jukebox-alaska,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000102,project-jukebox-alaska,Project Jukebox,University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,64.857,-147.834,English; Indigenous languages of the Americas,multiple Alaska Native languages,oral tradition; indigenous history; everyday life,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1985,,,,"Since the mid-1980s, this digital branch of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program has shared audio and video recordings, transcripts, and historic photographs from communities across Alaska, including a statewide 1994-96 Communities of Memory project.",https://jukebox.uaf.edu/,University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program. Project Jukebox. Retrieved from https://jukebox.uaf.edu/.,Freely accessible online.,open online,university or research institute,alaska-native-language-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000103,them-days-archives-labrador,Them Days Archives,Them Days,Canada,CA,Americas,Northern America,53.3018,-60.3258,English; Inuktitut; Innu-aimun,,oral tradition; everyday life; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1984,,,,"Growing out of a quarterly magazine published since 1975, the Them Days Archives in Happy Valley-Goose Bay has since 1984 gathered diaries, letters, and audio and video recordings documenting Labrador history and culture across Inuit, Innu, and settler communities.",https://www.themdays.com/,Them Days. Archives. Retrieved from https://www.themdays.com/.,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000104,nmai-archive-center,Archive Center,"National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8462,-76.9314,English; Indigenous languages of the Americas,multiple Indigenous languages of the Americas,indigenous history; oral tradition; community memory,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1989,,,,"The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, established in 1989, maintains an Archive Center with oral history recordings and records of Native and Indigenous artists, writers, activists, and organizations across the Western Hemisphere.",https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/collections/archive,"National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Archive Center. Retrieved from https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/collections/archive.","By appointment only, onsite research visits.",on site only,museum,activist-women-s-voices; doris-duke-utah-oral-history; slave-narratives-a-folk-history-of-slavery-in-the,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000105,doris-duke-utah-oral-history,Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Project,"University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7649,-111.8421,English; Indigenous languages of the Americas,multiple Indigenous languages,indigenous history; oral tradition; community memory,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1966,1971,,,"Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the University of Utah's American West Center conducted interviews across six western U.S. states between 1966 and 1971, ultimately recording 1,458 interviews now being digitized with descendant communities.",https://lib.utah.edu/collections/multimedia/oralhistory.php,"University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://lib.utah.edu/collections/multimedia/oralhistory.php.",,,university or research institute,nctr-residential-schools; nmai-archive-center,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000106,angel-island-immigration-foundation,Immigrant Voices Oral History Collection,Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,37.8608,-122.4326,English; Chinese; Multiple languages,multiple immigrant languages,migration; displacement; Partition,Migration & displacement,1983,,1910,1940,"Formed in 1983 after Chinese poetry carved into detention-barracks walls was rediscovered, this foundation has curated over 250 oral histories from immigrants detained at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940 and their descendants.",https://www.aiisf.org/,Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. Immigrant Voices Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://www.aiisf.org/.,,,foundation or nonprofit,bracero-history-archive; saada-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000107,saada-archive,South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA),South Asian American Digital Archive,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,39.9526,-75.1652,English; Multiple languages,multiple South Asian languages,migration; everyday life; community memory,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,2008,,,,"Established in Philadelphia in 2008, SAADA preserves the history of South Asian communities in the United States dating to the 1600s, including multiple oral history projects documenting Indo-American, Pakistani, and other South Asian migration experiences.",https://www.saada.org/browse/type/oral-history,South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.saada.org/browse/type/oral-history.,Freely accessible online.,open online,,angel-island-immigration-foundation; black-cultural-archives-windrush; moise-a-khayrallah-center-for-lebanese-diaspora,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000108,bracero-history-archive,Bracero History Archive,"Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,31.7619,-106.485,Spanish; English,,migration; labor history; everyday life,Labor; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,2005,,1942,1964,"A partnership begun in late 2005 among the Smithsonian, George Mason University, Brown University, and UTEP's Institute of Oral History, this archive holds the largest collection of oral histories of braceros, Mexican guest workers in mid-20th-century U.S. agriculture.",https://braceroarchive.org/,"Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso. Bracero History Archive. Retrieved from https://braceroarchive.org/.",Freely accessible online.,open online,university or research institute,angel-island-immigration-foundation; chinese-railroad-workers-stanford; fanhs-national-pinoy-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000109,domid-migration-museum,Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany (DOMiD),DOMiD e.V.,Germany,DE,Europe,Western Europe,50.9375,6.9603,German; Turkish,,migration; labor history; everyday life,Labor; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1990,,,,"Founded in 1990 by Turkish 'guest worker' migrants as a self-organized archive, DOMiD now holds more than 150,000 objects and documents, including personal narratives and everyday objects, tracing the history of migration to postwar Germany.",https://domid.org/en/,DOMiD e.V. Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany. Retrieved from https://domid.org/en/.,,,foundation or nonprofit,black-cultural-archives-windrush; odysseo-generiques-oral-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000110,cuban-heritage-collection-miami,Cuban Heritage Collection Oral Histories,University of Miami Libraries,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,25.7174,-80.2762,Spanish; English,,migration; displacement; political history,History & politics; Migration & displacement,2008,,,,"Since 2008, the University of Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection has recorded oral histories of Cuban exiles and dissidents, including the Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project and interviews with 2003 Black Spring political prisoners.",https://www.library.miami.edu/oral-histories.html,University of Miami Libraries. Cuban Heritage Collection Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.library.miami.edu/oral-histories.html.,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000111,viet-stories-uci,Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project,"University of California, Irvine",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,33.6405,-117.8443,Vietnamese; English,,migration; displacement; war and conflict,Migration & displacement; War & conflict,2011,,,,"Launched in 2011 in UC Irvine's Department of Asian American Studies, Viet Stories documents the life stories of first-generation Vietnamese Americans in Southern California, recording memories of prewar Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and refugee resettlement.",https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/,"University of California, Irvine. Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/.",,,university or research institute,hmong-archives-stpaul,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000112,hmong-archives-stpaul,Hmong Archives,Hmong Archives,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,44.9537,-93.09,Hmong; English,,migration; displacement; everyday life,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1999,,,,"Founded in Saint Paul in February 1999 by Hmong professionals, this archive collects materials and oral history documenting Hmong people, including a project recording Hmong immigrants who resettled in Minnesota from Laos and Thailand.",https://hmongarchives.org/,Hmong Archives. Retrieved from https://hmongarchives.org/.,,,,viet-stories-uci,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000113,immigration-history-research-center-umn,Immigration History Research Center Archives,University of Minnesota,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,44.974,-93.2277,English; Multiple languages,multiple immigrant languages,migration; everyday life; community memory,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1965,,,,"Founded in 1965, this is the oldest research center devoted to immigrant and refugee life in North America; its Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories collection holds over 360 interviews recorded between 1967 and 2012.",https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/ihrca,University of Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center Archives. Retrieved from https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/ihrca.,,,university or research institute,moise-a-khayrallah-center-for-lebanese-diaspora,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000114,fortunoff-video-archive,Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,Yale University Library,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.3111,-72.928,English; Multiple languages,multiple languages,Holocaust; genocide; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice,1979,,1933,1945,"Begun as a New Haven community project in 1979 and brought to Yale in 1981, the Fortunoff Archive now holds over 4,500 videotaped interviews with Holocaust witnesses and survivors, including Sinti and Roma survivors, resisters, and liberators.",https://web.library.yale.edu/fortuneoff_1,Yale University Library. Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Retrieved from https://web.library.yale.edu/fortuneoff_1.,,,university or research institute,david-boder-voices-of-holocaust; freedom-collection; iwm-sound-archive; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; yad-vashem-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000115,national-wwii-museum-oral-history,Oral History Collection,The National WWII Museum,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,29.9425,-90.0765,English,,war and conflict; military history,War & conflict,2000,,1939,1945,"Growing from historian Stephen Ambrose's personal collecting, this New Orleans museum (opened in 2000) holds more than 9,000 personal accounts of World War II veterans, part of over 250,000 artifacts.",https://www.nationalww2museum.org/oral-history-resources,The National WWII Museum. Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://www.nationalww2museum.org/oral-history-resources.,,,museum,iwm-sound-archive; veterans-history-project,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000116,911-memorial-museum-oral-history,Oral Histories,National September 11 Memorial & Museum,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7115,-74.0134,English,,war and conflict; disaster and survivor testimony; community memory,"Memory & community; Science, environment & disaster; War & conflict",2005,,2001,2001,"The 9/11 Memorial & Museum's oral history collection, built since its 2005 founding, holds more than 2,500 recorded interviews with responders, survivors, and family members documenting the September 11, 2001 attacks and their aftermath.",https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories,National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories.,Selected audio freely streamable online.,partial online,museum,storycorps-national-archive,https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000117,hurricane-digital-memory-bank,Hurricane Digital Memory Bank,"Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8315,-77.3067,English; Spanish,,disaster and survivor testimony; everyday life; community memory,"Memory & community; Science, environment & disaster",2005,,2005,2005,"Organized in 2005 with the University of New Orleans, this is the largest free public archive of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, with over 25,000 first-hand accounts, images, blog postings, and podcasts documenting the storms and their aftermath.",https://hurricanearchive.org/,"Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. Retrieved from https://hurricanearchive.org/.",Freely accessible online.,open online,university or research institute,michinoku-shinrokuden,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000118,armenian-film-foundation,Armenian Film Foundation Genocide Testimony Collection,Armenian Film Foundation,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.1706,-118.8376,Armenian; English; Multiple languages,multiple languages,genocide; Holocaust; human rights,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice,1968,2005,1915,1923,"Founded in 1979 by filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian, himself a genocide survivor, this Thousand Oaks foundation holds 400 interviews filmed between 1968 and 2005 with Armenian Genocide survivors, witnesses, and their descendants, now integrated into the USC Shoah Foundation's archive.",http://www.armenianfilm.org/,Armenian Film Foundation. Genocide Testimony Collection. Retrieved from http://www.armenianfilm.org/.,,,foundation or nonprofit,freedom-collection; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; yad-vashem-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000119,david-boder-voices-of-holocaust,Voices of the Holocaust,Illinois Institute of Technology,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.8356,-87.6266,Yiddish; German; Polish; Multiple languages,multiple languages,Holocaust; genocide; displacement,Genocide & mass violence; Migration & displacement,1946,1946,1933,1945,"In 1946, psychologist David P. Boder traveled to displaced-persons camps across France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany with a wire recorder, capturing 130 interviews in nine languages that are considered the earliest known recorded oral histories of the Holocaust.",https://voices.library.iit.edu/,Illinois Institute of Technology. Voices of the Holocaust. Retrieved from https://voices.library.iit.edu/.,"Freely accessible online, fully transcribed and translated.",open online,university or research institute,fortunoff-video-archive; yad-vashem-testimonies,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000120,endangered-archives-programme,Endangered Archives Programme,British Library,United Kingdom,GB,Europe,Northern Europe,51.5299,-0.1276,Multiple languages,multiple world languages,language documentation; oral tradition; history,History & politics; Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,2004,,,,"Funded by Arcadia since 2004, this British Library programme has supported over 500 projects in more than 90 countries, digitizing 16 million images and 35,000 sound recordings of at-risk cultural heritage, including oral and audiovisual materials from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.",https://eap.bl.uk/,British Library. Endangered Archives Programme. Retrieved from https://eap.bl.uk/.,Digitized collections freely accessible online.,open online,,elar-soas; ibadan-african-studies-audiovisual,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000121,japanese-american-national-museum,Hirasaki National Resource Center Oral Histories,Japanese American National Museum,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.0503,-118.2404,English; Japanese,,migration; incarceration; civil rights,Human rights & justice; Migration & displacement,1992,,,,"Founded in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo in 1992, JANM preserves oral history interviews, diaries, and military memoirs documenting Japanese American history and wartime incarceration, in long partnership with the Densho Digital Repository.",https://www.janm.org/hnrc,Japanese American National Museum. Hirasaki National Resource Center Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.janm.org/hnrc.,,,museum,densho-digital-repository; fanhs-national-pinoy-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000122,fanhs-national-pinoy-archives,National Pinoy Archives,Filipino American National Historical Society,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,47.6062,-122.3321,English; Tagalog; Ilocano,,migration; labor history; everyday life,Labor; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,1987,,,,"Founded in Seattle in 1987 by FANHS, the National Pinoy Archives collects historical records of Filipino Americans, including oral history interviews recorded by local chapters such as the Sacramento-Delta chapter's project on farmworker communities.",https://www.fanhs-national.org/national-pinoy-archives,Filipino American National Historical Society. National Pinoy Archives. Retrieved from https://www.fanhs-national.org/national-pinoy-archives.,,,foundation or nonprofit,bracero-history-archive; japanese-american-national-museum,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000123,gallaudet-university-archives,Gallaudet University Archives,Gallaudet University,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.9072,-76.9962,American Sign Language; English,,Deaf history; language documentation; community memory,Disability & Deaf histories; Language & linguistics; Memory & community,1864,,,,"Housed at Gallaudet University, founded in 1864 as the world's only university designed for Deaf and hard-of-hearing students, this archive is the largest collection of materials on Deaf culture, history, and signed languages worldwide, including personal papers and recorded interviews.",https://gallaudet.edu/archives/,Gallaudet University. Archives. Retrieved from https://gallaudet.edu/archives/.,,,university or research institute,roho-disability-rights,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000124,roho-disability-rights,Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project,"Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,37.8721,-122.2607,English,,disability rights; civil rights; social history,Disability & Deaf histories; History & politics; Human rights & justice,1996,,,,"Launched in 1996 by the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, this project recorded more than 100 interviews with leaders and participants of the Berkeley-born disability rights and independent living movement of the 1960s-70s and its national growth.",https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/disability-rights,"Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/disability-rights.",,,university or research institute,bancroft-oral-history-center; gallaudet-university-archives,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000125,chinese-railroad-workers-stanford,Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project,Stanford University,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,37.4275,-122.1697,English; Cantonese; Mandarin Chinese,,labor history; migration; everyday life,Labor; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,2012,2020,,,"Active from 2012 to 2020, this Stanford project recorded oral histories with nearly forty descendants of Chinese laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, recovering firsthand family memory absent from official records.",https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/,Stanford University. Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. Retrieved from https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/.,Project concluded in 2020; site maintained as a public research archive.,,university or research institute,bracero-history-archive,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000126,khmer-legacies,Khmer Legacies,Khmer Legacies,Cambodia,KH,Asia,South-eastern Asia,11.5564,104.9282,Khmer; English,,genocide; migration; displacement,Genocide & mass violence; Migration & displacement,2007,2011,1975,1979,"Founded in 2007 by filmmaker Socheata Poeuv, Khmer Legacies recorded more than one hundred testimonies of Khmer Rouge survivors and former cadres between 2007 and 2011, sixty in Cambodia and forty among the Cambodian diaspora in the United States.",https://apa.nyu.edu/survey/2015/01/khmer-legacies-records/,Khmer Legacies. Retrieved via NYU Asian/Pacific/American Archives Survey: https://apa.nyu.edu/survey/2015/01/khmer-legacies-records/.,,,,dccam-oral-history; genocide-archive-rwanda,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000127,museo-palabra-imagen-el-salvador,Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen,Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI),El Salvador,SV,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,13.6929,-89.2182,Spanish,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1996,,1980,1992,"Founded in San Salvador in 1996 by former clandestine-radio broadcaster Carlos Henriquez Consalvi, MUPI holds El Salvador's most significant audiovisual archive of the 1980-1992 civil war, including the Radio Venceremos collection and oral history programming for younger generations.",https://www.elsalvadormemory.org/museo-de-la-palabra-es,Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI). Retrieved from https://www.elsalvadormemory.org/museo-de-la-palabra-es.,,,museum,cnmh-colombia; lugar-de-la-memoria-peru; memoria-abierta-argentina,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000128,lugar-de-la-memoria-peru,Centro de Documentación e Investigación (CVR Testimonies),"Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM)",Peru,PE,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-12.1247,-77.03,Spanish; Quechua,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2001,2003,1980,2000,"Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission collected nearly 17,000 testimonies between 2001 and 2003 documenting the country's 1980-2000 internal armed conflict; these video and audio archives are now preserved and digitized at Lima's LUM documentation center.",https://lum.cultura.pe/content/centro-de-documentaci%C3%B3n-e-investigaci%C3%B3n,"Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM). Centro de Documentación e Investigación. Retrieved from https://lum.cultura.pe/content/centro-de-documentaci%C3%B3n-e-investigaci%C3%B3n.",,,,cnmh-colombia; museo-memoria-chile; museo-palabra-imagen-el-salvador,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000129,museo-memoria-chile,Archivo Oral,Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos,Chile,CL,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-33.4372,-70.6683,Spanish,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2010,,1973,1990,"Opened in Santiago in 2010, this museum's Oral Archive applies recorded-interview methodology to document personal and collective experiences of Chile's 1973-1990 military dictatorship, alongside its wider testimonial and documentary collections.",https://testimonios.museodelamemoria.cl/category/archivo-oral/,Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos. Archivo Oral. Retrieved from https://testimonios.museodelamemoria.cl/category/archivo-oral/.,,,museum,lugar-de-la-memoria-peru; memoria-abierta-argentina,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000130,cavr-chega-timor-leste,Chega! CAVR Truth Commission Testimonies,"Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação (CAVR)",Timor-Leste,TL,Asia,South-eastern Asia,-8.5569,125.5603,Tetum; Portuguese; Indonesian,,war and conflict; human rights; memory and reconciliation,Human rights & justice; War & conflict,2002,2005,1974,1999,"Timor-Leste's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation operated from 2002 to 2005, relying heavily on eyewitness testimony to document mass killing and displacement during the 1974-1999 Indonesian occupation, published in its final report Chega!.",https://chegareport.org/,"Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação (CAVR). Chega! Final Report. Retrieved from https://chegareport.org/.",,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000131,cpdoc-fgv-brazil,Programa de Historia Oral (Oral History Program),"CPDOC, Fundação Getulio Vargas",Brazil,BR,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-22.9399,-43.1878,Portuguese,,political history; history; national memory,History & politics; Memory & community,1975,,,,"Created in 1975 within Rio de Janeiro's Centro de Pesquisa e Documentacao de Historia Contemporanea do Brasil, this pioneering oral history program has shaped oral history methodology across Brazil while building interviews with figures central to the country's recent political history.",https://cpdoc.fgv.br/,"CPDOC, Fundação Getulio Vargas. Programa de Historia Oral. Retrieved from https://cpdoc.fgv.br/.",,,,museu-da-pessoa,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000132,jamaica-memory-bank,Jamaica Memory Bank,African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica,Jamaica,JM,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,17.9712,-76.7936,Jamaican Patois; English,,oral tradition; folklife; everyday life,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1980,,,,"Begun as an independent agency in 1980 and integrated into the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica in 1990, the Jamaica Memory Bank holds over 2,000 sound recordings and 800 videos of storytelling, folk religion, craft, and oral history from across Jamaica's parishes.",https://acij-ioj.org.jm/,African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica. Jamaica Memory Bank. Retrieved from https://acij-ioj.org.jm/.,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000133,kazakhstan-central-state-sound-archive,"Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan","Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan",Kazakhstan,KZ,Asia,Central Asia,43.222,76.8512,Kazakh; Russian,,history; national memory,History & politics; Memory & community,1943,,,,"Kazakhstan's national audiovisual archive, founded in 1943 and based in Almaty, holds roughly 300,000 items of film, photo and sound-recording documents covering the country's Soviet-era and post-independence history.",http://kfdz.kz/,"Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Retrieved from http://kfdz.kz/.",,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000134,uzbekistan-institute-language-literature-folklore,"Folklore Archive of the Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore","Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan",Uzbekistan,UZ,Asia,Central Asia,41.2995,69.2401,Uzbek,,folklore; oral tradition; epic performance; ethnomusicology,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1934,,,,"Founded in 1934 in Tashkent, this Academy of Sciences institute's Department of Folklore has organized decades of field expeditions recording Uzbek oral narratives and epic dostons, including a large 1969 expedition that documented epic narrators with the Alisher Navoi Museum of Literature and Karshi State Pedagogical Institute.",https://tai.academy.uz/en,"Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. Retrieved from https://tai.academy.uz/en.",,,university or research institute,kyrgyzstan-manas-epic-trilogy,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000135,kyrgyzstan-manas-epic-trilogy,"Kyrgyz Epic Trilogy: Manas, Semetey, Seytek",UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Kyrgyz manaschi (epic-teller) tradition,Kyrgyzstan,KG,Asia,Central Asia,42.8746,74.5698,Kyrgyz,,oral tradition; epic performance; history,History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,1922,,,,"The Manas, Semetey and Seytek trilogy is an oral epic recited by Kyrgyz manaschi performers and inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013. Its first large-scale transcription from oral performance, of the version narrated by Sagymbay Orozbakov, was carried out between 1922 and 1926 and is separately inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.",https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/kyrgyz-epic-trilogy-manas-semetey-seytek-00876,"UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Kyrgyz epic trilogy: Manas, Semetey, Seytek. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/kyrgyz-epic-trilogy-manas-semetey-seytek-00876.",,,intergovernmental body,uzbekistan-institute-language-literature-folklore,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000136,tajikistan-rudaki-institute-folklore-archive,Tajik Folklore Archive of the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature,"Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan",Tajikistan,TJ,Asia,Central Asia,38.5598,68.787,Tajik,,folklore; oral tradition; linguistics,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1923,2003,,,"The Rudaki Institute in Dushanbe, founded in 1932, holds one of the few surviving repositories of Tajik expressive culture: a folklore archive of notebooks, notecards and loose-leaf papers from Soviet-era and post-Soviet fieldwork expeditions, collected between 1923 and 2003 and written in Arabic, Latin and Cyrillic script.",https://izar.tj/en/department-folklore,"Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Department of Folklore. Retrieved from https://izar.tj/en/department-folklore.",,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000137,turkey-trt-folk-music-archive,TRT Turkish Folk Music Archive,Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT),Turkey,TR,Asia,Western Asia,39.9208,32.8541,Turkish,,folklore; music; ethnomusicology,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1926,,,,"TRT's folk music archive comprises more than 6,500 field-collected recordings and notations of Turkish folk music, built on collecting expeditions beginning with the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory (1926-1929) and continued by the Ankara State Conservatory (1936-1952). Notation and recording holdings are made available through TRT's Nota Kutuphanesi (Notation Library) platform.",https://nota.trt.net.tr/Nota-Kutuphanesi,Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT). Nota Kutuphanesi. Retrieved from https://nota.trt.net.tr/Nota-Kutuphanesi.,,,broadcaster,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000138,afghanistan-hoover-oral-history-project,HART: Hoover Afghanistan Oral History Project,"Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University",Afghanistan,AF,Asia,Southern Asia,34.5553,69.2075,Dari; Pashto,,war and conflict; displacement; migration; refugees,Migration & displacement; War & conflict,2022,,,,"Since 2022, oral historian Halima Kazem has recorded more than 450 hours of interviews with Afghans who fled the country following the August 2021 Taliban takeover and the collapse of the Afghan government. The interviews are held in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives' digital repository.",https://digitalcollections2.hoover.org/collection/3249451/hart-hoover-afghanistan-oral-history-project,"Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University. HART: Hoover Afghanistan Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections2.hoover.org/collection/3249451/hart-hoover-afghanistan-oral-history-project.",,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000139,iraq-mosul-jewish-community-testimonies,Intangible Heritage Collection of Testimonies on the Jewish Community of Mosul,ALIPH Foundation (International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas),Iraq,IQ,Asia,Western Asia,36.3489,43.1189,Arabic,,displacement; community memory; religion,Memory & community; Migration & displacement; Religion & belief,2021,2022,,,"Between 2021 and 2022, an ALIPH Foundation-supported project recorded seventeen video interviews with individuals connected to Mosul's historic Jewish community, whose members had largely left Iraq by the mid-20th century, alongside digitization of private family archives and a community journal.",https://www.aliph-foundation.org/en/projects/intangible-heritage-collection-of-testimonies-on-the-jewish-community-of-mosul,ALIPH Foundation. Intangible Heritage Collection of Testimonies on the Jewish Community of Mosul. Retrieved from https://www.aliph-foundation.org/en/projects/intangible-heritage-collection-of-testimonies-on-the-jewish-community-of-mosul.,,,foundation or nonprofit,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000140,saudi-arabia-darah-oral-history-center,Darah Oral History Center,King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah),Saudi Arabia,SA,Asia,Western Asia,24.7136,46.6753,Arabic,,oral tradition; history; family history,History & politics; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1995,,,,"Established in 1995 by the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah) in Riyadh, this was the first specialized oral history center in Saudi Arabia. It has recorded thousands of audio and video interviews with storytellers, elders and narrators from across the Kingdom for use in historical research.",https://www.darah.org.sa/,King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah). Retrieved from https://www.darah.org.sa/.,,,foundation or nonprofit,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000141,uae-national-archives-oral-history-programme,Oral History Programme,"National Library and Archives, United Arab Emirates",United Arab Emirates,AE,Asia,Western Asia,24.4539,54.3773,Arabic,,oral tradition; folklife; everyday life,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,2008,,,,"Since 2008, the UAE's National Library and Archives has recorded more than 800 audio-visual interviews with elderly Emirati narrators and eyewitnesses, documenting local dialects, folk songs and the lifestyles of earlier generations for the national archival record.",https://www.nla.ae/en/our-history/oral-history/overview/overview/,"National Library and Archives, United Arab Emirates. Oral History Overview. Retrieved from https://www.nla.ae/en/our-history/oral-history/overview/overview/.",,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000142,kuwait-auk-oral-history-documentation-project,Oral History and Documentation Project (OHDP),American University of Kuwait Library,Kuwait,KW,Asia,Western Asia,29.3375,48.0758,Arabic; English,,oral tradition; community memory; everyday life,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,2020,,,,"Launched in 2020 by the American University of Kuwait Library in collaboration with KIPCO, the Oral History and Documentation Project is Kuwait's first comprehensive program actively recording life-history interviews across a range of topics to preserve the voices of Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti residents. The library was among the first in the Arab world to adopt the OHMS oral-history indexing application, including Arabic-language support.",https://oralhistory.auk.edu.kw,American University of Kuwait Library. Oral History and Documentation Project. Retrieved from https://oralhistory.auk.edu.kw.,Selected life-history interviews are published and browsable via the project's own online platform.,partial online,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000143,sudan-folklore-traditional-music-archives,Folklore and Traditional Music Archives,"Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum",Sudan,SD,Africa,Northern Africa,15.6136,32.5322,Arabic,,folklore; ethnomusicology; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1963,,,,"The Institute of African and Asian Studies at the University of Khartoum holds the Folklore and Traditional Music Archives: more than 3,000 audio recordings and photographs of traditional Sudanese music and folklore gathered since 1963 through successive research initiatives. UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund has supported an action plan for digitizing and preserving the collection.",https://ich.unesco.org/en/news/digitization-of-sudan-folklore-and-traditional-music-archives-00046,UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Digitization of Sudan folklore and traditional music archives. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/news/digitization-of-sudan-folklore-and-traditional-music-archives-00046.,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000144,tunisia-cmam-phonotheque-nationale,Phonothèque Nationale de Tunisie (National Sound Archive),"Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes (CMAM), Ennejma Ezzahra",Tunisia,TN,Africa,Northern Africa,36.8687,10.3412,Arabic; French,,music; ethnomusicology; folklife,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1907,,,,"The Phonothèque Nationale de Tunisie, run by the Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes at the Ennejma Ezzahra palace near Tunis, holds Tunisia's historical phonographic heritage: 78/80/45/33rpm discs and field recordings dating back to 1907, organized into roughly thirty corpora and made accessible online through the Telemeta audio platform.",https://phonotheque.cmam.tn/,,Many collections are streamable online via the Telemeta-based Phonothèque platform; other material requires an in-person consultation request to the Center.,partial online,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000145,botswana-national-archives-oral-history,Oral History Collection,Botswana National Archives and Records Services (BNARS),Botswana,BW,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-24.6558,25.9086,Setswana; English,,oral tradition; community memory; history,History & politics; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1982,,,,"BNARS, a department under Botswana's Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture, has collected oral history recordings since 1982 documenting the histories of Botswana's ethnic groups, villages and notable individuals, held alongside its documentary archival holdings in Gaborone.",https://www.gov.bw/culture/national-archives-research-enquiry,,In-person research-room access at the National Archives in Gaborone; researchers submit an enquiry form in advance.,on site only,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,Source URL returned 404 in the 2026-09-21 link check; no replacement page found yet.,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000146,namibia-national-archives-aacrls-oral-history,AACRLS Oral History Collection,National Archives of Namibia,Namibia,NA,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-22.57,17.0836,English; Afrikaans,,oral tradition; resistance history; colonial history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,2001,2010,,,"The National Archives of Namibia's Archives of Anti-Colonial Resistance and the Liberation Struggle (AACRLS) programme, jointly funded by Namibia and Germany from 2001 to 2010, expanded the Archives' oral history holdings from a small base to roughly 1,500 recorded interviews with participants in Namibia's liberation struggle.",https://nan.gov.na/finding-aids,,,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000147,mozambique-arquivo-historico-oral-history,Independence-War and Rural Life Oral History Collection,"Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, Eduardo Mondlane University",Mozambique,MZ,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-25.9689,32.5934,Portuguese,,war and conflict; oral tradition; everyday life,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,1979,1984,,,"The Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, overseen by Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo since 1976, holds several hundred cassette-tape interviews and storytelling sessions recorded between 1979 and 1984 in Mozambique's northern provinces, documenting the war of independence, rural social life, rituals and local histories.",https://ahm.uem.mz/,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000148,angola-arquivo-nacional-oral-tradition,Oral Tradition Sound Collection,Arquivo Nacional de Angola,Angola,AO,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-8.8147,13.2302,Portuguese; Umbundu,,oral tradition; folklife; history,History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,1960,1979,,,"Angola's National Archive holds magnetic-tape recordings made during the 1960s and 1970s in the Benguela, Huambo, Bié and Luanda regions, including interviews with traditional leaders (sobas and sekulos), oral narratives, songs and elders' memories, some of it recovered after an earlier period of neglect and now cared for by the Archive's oral-archive department.",https://www.ana.gov.ao/,,,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000149,drc-rmca-ethnomusicology-sound-archive,Ethnomusicological Sound Archive (Congo Collections),"Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium)",Democratic Republic of the Congo,CD,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-4.4419,15.2663,French; Lingala; Swahili; Kikongo; Tshiluba,,ethnomusicology; music; colonial history,"Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Music, performance & broadcasting",1910,,,,"The Royal Museum for Central Africa's ethnomusicology department holds roughly 3,000 hours of sound recordings of traditional music from Central Africa, with a strong focus on the Congo and Rwanda, spanning 1910 Edison-cylinder recordings made by Armand Hutereau in Uele province through later tape, cassette and digital field recordings. A digitization project (DEKKMMA), run with the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Ghent University, is making the collection more widely accessible.",https://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/discover/collections_management/archives_and_documentation/archives,,"Physically held in Tervuren, Belgium, as the historical repository for this Central African material; access is by request to the museum's ethnomusicology department.",on request,museum,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000150,madagascar-phonogrammarchiv-collection,Madagascar Sound Collection,"Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences",Madagascar,MG,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-18.9146,47.5361,Malagasy,,oral tradition; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1961,1992,,,"Field recordings of Malagasy traditional music, fairy tales and stories, made between 1961 and 1992 by researchers including Gerhard Kubik and August Schmidhofer, are held by the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv. In September 2012 the Archive repatriated a digital copy of over 1,000 of these sound documents to the Institut de Civilisations at the University of Antananarivo.",https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/home,IASA. Phonogrammarchiv repatriates Madagascar's acoustic heritage. Retrieved from https://www.iasa-web.org/phonogrammarchiv-repatriates-madagascar%E2%80%99s-acoustic-heritage.,A digital copy of the collection was repatriated to the University of Antananarivo in 2012; the original recordings remain held by the Phonogrammarchiv in Vienna.,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000151,cameroon-cerdotola-oral-resources-laboratory,Oral Resources Laboratory (Laboratoire des Ressources Orales),Centre International de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Traditions et les Langues Africaines (CERDOTOLA),Cameroon,CM,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,3.848,11.5021,French,,oral tradition; linguistics; language documentation,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1977,,,,"CERDOTOLA, an intergovernmental research center founded by 11 African states in 1977 and headquartered in Yaoundé, runs an Oral Resources Laboratory (Laboratoire des Ressources Orales) dedicated to documenting and archiving African oral traditions and languages, and has hosted training sessions and conferences on sound, oral and radio archives across the continent.",https://en.cerdotola.org/,,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000152,algeria-cnrpah-oral-heritage-recordings,Ethnomusicology and Oral Heritage Sound Recordings,"Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH)",Algeria,DZ,Africa,Northern Africa,36.7538,3.0588,Arabic; Tamazight,,ethnomusicology; oral tradition; folklore,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1974,,,,"CNRPAH, Algeria's national research center for prehistory, anthropology and history, has conducted ethnomusicological fieldwork since 1974 and built an audio collection of more than 300 hours of recordings; since 2007 it has coordinated Algeria's national inventory of intangible cultural heritage together with the country's regional cultural departments.",https://cnrpah.org/,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000153,libya-lcahs-oral-history-project,Libyan Oral History Project,Libyan Center for Archives and Historical Studies (formerly the Libyan Studies Center),Libya,LY,Africa,Northern Africa,32.8872,13.1913,Arabic,,resistance history; colonial history; oral tradition,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,1978,,,,"Established in Tripoli in the late 1970s with methodological input from historian Jan Vansina, the Libyan Center for Archives and Historical Studies (formerly the Libyan Studies Center) built a large-scale oral history archive recording testimonies of participants in Libyan resistance to Italian colonial rule and survivors of Italy's concentration camps in Libya.",https://lcahs.ly/,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000154,italy-icbsa-sound-archive,ICBSA National Sound Archive,"Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori ed Audiovisivi (ICBSA), Italian Ministry of Culture",Italy,IT,Europe,Southern Europe,41.893,12.4763,Italian,,folklife; music; oral tradition; history,"History & politics; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1928,,,,"Italy's national sound archive, founded in 1928 as the Discoteca di Stato, holds over 300,000 sound items ranging from Edison wax cylinders to digital recordings, including field recordings of Italian folk music, regional dialects, and oral traditions.",http://www.icbsa.it/,,,,government agency,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000155,greece-asia-minor-oral-tradition-archive,Oral Tradition Archive of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies,Centre for Asia Minor Studies (Κέντρο Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών),Greece,GR,Europe,Southern Europe,37.9716,23.7296,Greek,,displacement; migration; refugees; oral tradition,Migration & displacement; Oral tradition & folklore,1930,1970,,,"Founded in 1930 by Melpo and Octave Merlier, the Centre's Oral Tradition Archive gathered testimonies from more than 5,000 Greek Orthodox refugees from Asia Minor, covering roughly 1,475 investigated pre-1922 settlements and documenting daily life, the population exchange, and the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe.",https://www.kms.org.gr/en/archives/oral-tradition-archive/,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000156,slovenia-institute-ethnomusicology-sound-archive,Sound Archive of the Institute of Ethnomusicology,"Institute of Ethnomusicology (Glasbenonarodopisni inštitut), ZRC SAZU",Slovenia,SI,Europe,Southern Europe,46.0489,14.5061,Slovenian,,ethnomusicology; folklife; music; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1934,,,,"Founded in 1934 and now part of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Institute runs a dedicated Sound Archive and Studio (established 1994) of Slovenian and South Slavic folk music, song, and dance recordings, with selected material published through its Etnomuza digital platform.",https://gni.zrc-sazu.si/en,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000157,romania-brailoiu-institute-ethnography-folklore,Constantin Brăiloiu Institute of Ethnography and Folklore Archive,"Institutul de Etnografie și Folclor „Constantin Brăiloiu”, Romanian Academy",Romania,RO,Europe,Eastern Europe,44.4136,26.0836,Romanian,,ethnomusicology; folklore; oral tradition; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1928,,,,"Successor to the folklore archive that composer-ethnomusicologist Constantin Brăiloiu founded in 1928 under the Society of Romanian Composers, the Institute preserves decades of field recordings of Romanian folk music and oral tradition gathered during Brăiloiu's and sociologist Dimitrie Gusti's village research campaigns and later fieldwork.",https://academiaromana.ro/ief/,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000158,latvia-folklore-archives-dainas,Archives of Latvian Folklore,"Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia (Latviešu folkloras krātuve)",Latvia,LV,Europe,Northern Europe,56.9346,24.0972,Latvian,,oral tradition; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1924,,,,"Established in 1924, the Archives of Latvian Folklore is the oldest folklore archive in the Baltic states, holding more than three million items including manuscripts, and audio and video recordings. Its centerpiece, the Cabinet of Dainas — Krišjānis Barons's card catalogue of over 200,000 Latvian folk songs — was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2001.",https://lulfmi.lv/en/archives-of-latvian-folklore,"UNESCO Memory of the World Register: 'Dainu skapis' (Cabinet of Dainas), inscribed 2001.",,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000159,lithuania-folklore-phonogram-collection,Lithuanian Folk Music Phonogram Collection,"Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuanian Folklore Archives",Lithuania,LT,Europe,Northern Europe,54.6975,25.3011,Lithuanian,,oral tradition; music; folklore,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1908,1949,,,"Held at the Lithuanian Folklore Archives, this collection of early phonograph and later tape recordings of Lithuanian folk songs and music, made between 1908 and 1949, was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World national register in 2008 as documentary heritage of regional significance.",https://archyvas.llti.lt/en/lithuanian_folk_music_phonogram_collection/?id=55793,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000160,switzerland-uzh-phonogrammarchiv,Phonogrammarchiv of the University of Zurich,"Phonogrammarchiv, University of Zurich",Switzerland,CH,Europe,Western Europe,47.3746,8.5501,German; French; Italian; Romansh,,linguistics; language documentation; oral tradition,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1909,,,,"Founded in 1909, Switzerland's oldest sound archive collects, documents, and publishes recordings of Swiss dialects across all four national languages; it is now housed within the University of Zurich's Institute of Computational Linguistics.",https://www.phonogrammarchiv.uzh.ch/de.html,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000161,denmark-folklore-archives-royal-library,Danish Folklore Archives,"Dansk Folkemindesamling, Royal Danish Library",Denmark,DK,Europe,Northern Europe,55.6739,12.5807,Danish,,folklore; everyday life; oral tradition,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1904,,,,"Established in 1904 and incorporated into the Royal Danish Library in 2008, the Danish Folklore Archives preserves manuscripts, audio recordings, and video documenting Danish folk narrative, custom, song, and everyday life across more than a century of collecting.",https://www.kb.dk/en/find-materials/collections/folklore-archive,,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000162,iceland-arni-magnusson-folklore-collection,Folklore Collection of the Árni Magnússon Institute,Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum),Iceland,IS,Europe,Northern Europe,64.1394,-21.9508,Icelandic,,folklore; oral tradition; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1900,,,,"The Institute's ethnology division holds a large tape-recorded folklore collection of ballads, folk songs, folktales, and descriptions of customs gathered across Iceland and Icelandic settlements in North America, with source material dating back to 1900.",https://arnastofnun.is/en/culture,,Selected recordings from the collection are accessible online via the ismus.is portal.,partial online,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000163,bulgaria-iefsem-ethnographic-archive,Ethnographic Archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies,"Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFSEM), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences",Bulgaria,BG,Europe,Eastern Europe,42.6941,23.3299,Bulgarian,,folklife; ethnomusicology; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1947,,,,"Tracing its research lineage to the Institute of Folklore founded by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1947, IEFSEM's Ethnographic Archive holds field-collected written records, photographs, and sound recordings of Bulgarian pre-industrial and traditional culture, with active digitization efforts underway.",https://iefem.bas.bg/en/,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000164,croatia-ethnology-folklore-research-sound-archive,Sound Archive of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research,"Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku), Zagreb",Croatia,HR,Europe,Southern Europe,45.809,15.9971,Croatian,,folklife; ethnomusicology; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1948,,,,"Founded in 1948, the Institute's Audio Library holds several thousand recordings of Croatian oral literature, folk music and dance, and narrations of custom, gathered from Croatian-speaking regions and Croatian communities living outside Croatia.",https://www.ief.hr/en/archive/collections/,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000165,serbia-sasa-institute-musicology-archive,Archive of the Institute of Musicology SASA,"Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA)",Serbia,RS,Europe,Southern Europe,44.8175,20.4581,Serbian,,ethnomusicology; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1948,,,,"Founded in 1948 as the first musicology institute in the former Yugoslavia, the Institute holds an extensive archive of ethnomusicological field notation and sound recordings of Serbian folk songs and dances, built up through decades of ongoing fieldwork.",https://music.sanu.ac.rs/en/archive/,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000166,portugal-fado-museum-digital-sound-archive,Digital Sound Archive (Arquivo Sonoro Digital),"INET-MD (Instituto de Etnomusicologia) and Museu do Fado, Lisbon",Portugal,PT,Europe,Southern Europe,38.7126,-9.1281,Portuguese,,music; oral tradition; everyday life,"Memory & community; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1900,,,,"A partnership between the Fado Museum and the Institute of Ethnomusicology (INET-MD, NOVA University Lisbon), this digital archive brings together thousands of historical fado recordings dating from the early 20th century, forming Portugal's largest historical popular-music sound repository.",https://www.inetmd.pt/publicacoes/arquivo-sonoro-digital/,,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000167,belgium-cegesoma-oral-history-wwii,CegeSoma Oral History Interview Collections,"CegeSoma, State Archives of Belgium",Belgium,BE,Europe,Western Europe,50.8362,4.3315,French; Dutch,,war and conflict; oral tradition; everyday life; military history,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore; War & conflict,1969,,1939,1945,"Belgium's federal research centre on 20th-century conflict, part of the State Archives since 2016, holds about 1,800 digitized interviews with former WWII resistance fighters, collaborators, and eyewitnesses, plus 1,200 interviews recorded between 1984 and 1998 on daily life under the German Occupation.",https://www.cegesoma.be/en/home,,,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000168,ukraine-lviv-urban-media-archive,Urban Media Archive Oral History Interviews,"Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv",Ukraine,UA,Europe,Eastern Europe,49.8404,24.0297,Ukrainian; Russian; Polish,,oral tradition; urban history; everyday life; migration,Memory & community; Migration & displacement; Oral tradition & folklore,2004,,,,"Since its founding in 2004, the Center for Urban History has recorded oral history interviews on urban space, professional biographies, and everyday life across Lviv and East-Central Europe, digitized and annotated for public access in its Urban Media Archive.",https://uma.lvivcenter.org/en/interviews,,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000169,slovakia-institute-musicology-folk-music-archive,Folk Music Sound Recordings of the Institute of Musicology SAS,"Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Ústav hudobnej vedy SAV)",Slovakia,SK,Europe,Eastern Europe,48.1633,17.0704,Slovak,,ethnomusicology; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1950,,,,"The Institute's Department of Ethnomusicology holds Slovakia's most extensive folk-music recording collection: over 3,500 tapes recorded by Institute staff from the second half of the 20th century onward, covering every region of Slovakia and Slovak diaspora communities abroad.",https://uhv.sav.sk/en/,,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000170,mexico-fonoteca-nacional,Fonoteca Nacional de México,Fonoteca Nacional de México,Mexico,MX,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,19.3467,-99.1718,Spanish; Indigenous languages of the Americas,Indigenous languages of Mexico,oral tradition; ethnomusicology; linguistics; folklife,"Language & linguistics; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1900,,,,"Mexico's national sound archive, established in 2008 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, holds and preserves historical and contemporary recordings including music, oral narratives, radio broadcasts and field recordings in Spanish and multiple Mexican indigenous languages, some dating to early wax-cylinder recordings.",https://www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx/,Fonoteca Nacional de México. Retrieved from https://www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx/.,,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000171,mexico-fonoteca-henrietta-yurchenco,Fonoteca Henrietta Yurchenco,Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas (INPI),Mexico,MX,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,19.4326,-99.1332,Indigenous languages of the Americas; Spanish,Indigenous languages of Mexico,oral tradition; indigenous history; ethnomusicology; linguistics,"Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Language & linguistics; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1960,1997,,,"Named for ethnomusicologist Henrietta Yurchenco, this sound archive held by Mexico's national indigenous-peoples institute comprises more than 11,000 field recordings of indigenous music, oral narratives, interviews and festivals gathered by researchers between 1960 and 1997, plus some of the earliest known recordings of Mexican indigenous music.",https://www.inpi.gob.mx/acervos/fonoteca.html,Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas. Fonoteca Henrietta Yurchenco. Retrieved from https://www.inpi.gob.mx/acervos/fonoteca.html.,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000172,guatemala-remhi-centro-memoria-gerardi,REMHI — Proyecto Interdiocesano de Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica,"Centro de la Memoria Monseñor Juan Gerardi (Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado de Guatemala, ODHAG)",Guatemala,GT,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,14.6349,-90.5069,Spanish; Mayan languages,,genocide; human rights; war and conflict; state terrorism; memory and reconciliation; transitional justice,Genocide & mass violence; Human rights & justice; War & conflict,1995,1998,1960,1996,"Directed by Bishop Juan Gerardi and published as the 1998 report 'Guatemala: Nunca Más', REMHI gathered several thousand oral testimonies from survivors and witnesses of Guatemala's internal armed conflict; the original testimonies and case files are preserved at the archdiocese's Centro de la Memoria, which bears Gerardi's name after his 1998 assassination.",https://www.odhag.org.gt/cmmjg/,,The popularized version of the REMHI report is freely available online; original testimony archives are held for research access at the Centro de la Memoria.,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000173,costa-rica-archivo-historico-musical-ucr,Archivo Histórico Musical,"Escuela de Artes Musicales, Universidad de Costa Rica",Costa Rica,CR,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,9.9376,-84.0505,Spanish,,music; folklife; everyday life; history,"History & politics; Memory & community; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1993,,,,"Founded in 1993 at the University of Costa Rica's School of Musical Arts, this archive rescues, preserves and digitizes Costa Rica's musical heritage, holding scores, photographs and sound recordings from more than 5,600 Costa Rican composers and musicians.",https://archivomusical.ucr.ac.cr/,"Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Artes Musicales. Archivo Histórico Musical. Retrieved from https://archivomusical.ucr.ac.cr/.",,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000174,cuba-museo-nacional-musica-fonoteca,Fonoteca del Museo Nacional de la Música,Museo Nacional de la Música de Cuba,Cuba,CU,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,23.1367,-82.3553,Spanish,,music; ethnomusicology; folklife; history,"History & politics; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1971,,,,"Cuba's national music museum in Havana, formed in 1998 from the merger of the earlier Museo y Archivo de la Música with the Odilio Urfé documentation center, holds a sound archive of wax cylinders, reel-to-reel tapes and thousands of discs documenting Cuban musical history, built partly from the Urfé family's private collection.",https://www.ministeriodecultura.gob.cu/es/ministerio-2/directorio-de-entidades/instituciones-nacionales/museo-nacional-de-la-musica,Ministerio de Cultura de Cuba. Museo Nacional de la Música. Retrieved from https://www.ministeriodecultura.gob.cu/es/ministerio-2/directorio-de-entidades/instituciones-nacionales/museo-nacional-de-la-musica.,,,museum,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000175,haiti-radio-haiti-archive-duke,Radio Haiti Archive,"David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University",Haiti,HT,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,18.5944,-72.3074,Haitian Creole; French; English,,political history; human rights; resistance history; war and conflict; everyday life,History & politics; Human rights & justice; Memory & community; War & conflict,1957,2003,,,"More than 5,300 digitized audio recordings from independent station Radio Haiti-Inter, donated to Duke's Human Rights Archive by co-anchor Michèle Montas after journalist Jean Dominique's 2000 assassination, documenting Haitian politics, culture and daily life from the Duvalier era through the 1991-1994 coup years and beyond, with trilingual (Kreyòl, French, English) metadata.",https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti,"Radio Haiti Archive, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Retrieved from https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti.",Freely accessible online via the Duke Digital Repository.,open online,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000176,puerto-rico-archivo-musica-sonido-icp,Archivo de Música y Sonido,"Archivo General de Puerto Rico, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña",Puerto Rico,PR,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,18.4655,-66.1057,Spanish,,music; oral tradition; folklife; everyday life,"Memory & community; Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1955,,,,"A division of Puerto Rico's General Archive under the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, this collection preserves roughly 15,000 musical works by more than 700 composers alongside around 10,000 recordings, including field recordings of poetry recitations, political rallies and workshops documenting Puerto Rican oral testimony.",https://www.icp.pr.gov/archivo-general/,Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. Archivo General de Puerto Rico. Retrieved from https://www.icp.pr.gov/archivo-general/.,,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000177,bolivia-archivo-oral-fondo-sonoro-umsa,El Archivo Oral — Fondo Oral Sonoro,"Carrera de Literatura, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA)",Bolivia,BO,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-16.5,-68.15,Aymara; Quechua; Spanish,"Also Mosetén, Guarayo, Tacana, Tsimán and Chiquitano, among others (per the archive's own description).",oral tradition; community memory; folklore; linguistics,Language & linguistics; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1980,,,,"Run by the Literature program at Bolivia's Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, this archive holds roughly 700 hours of audio with more than 7,000 recorded oral narratives — memories, local histories, testimonies, myths and stories — gathered from highland, valley and Amazonian communities across Bolivia's nine departments, in Aymara, Quechua and other languages.",http://www.literatura.edu.bo/archivo_oral/index.php/archivo/sobre-el-archivo,"Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Carrera de Literatura. El Archivo Oral - Fondo Oral Sonoro. Retrieved from http://www.literatura.edu.bo/archivo_oral/index.php/archivo/sobre-el-archivo.",,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000178,venezuela-testimonios-audiovisuales-culturas-vivas,Testimonios Audiovisuales de las Culturas Vivas de América Latina y el Caribe del Siglo XX,Fundación Centro de la Diversidad Cultural,Venezuela,VE,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,10.4806,-66.9036,Spanish; Indigenous languages of the Americas,,ethnomusicology; oral tradition; folklife; religion,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore; Religion & belief",1948,1986,,,"Custodied in Caracas by the Centro de la Diversidad Cultural (successor to the OAS-founded ethnomusicology institute INIDEF, built around Isabel Aretz's field research), this collection of 152,344 images and 23,383 sound recordings of music, legends, games, poetry, prayers and traditional medicine practices from across Latin America and the Caribbean was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in November 2023.",http://www.diversidadcultural.gob.ve/,"UNESCO Memory of the World Programme, Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean (2023 inscriptions); Fundación Centro de la Diversidad Cultural. Retrieved from http://www.diversidadcultural.gob.ve/.",,,foundation or nonprofit,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000179,uruguay-archivo-oral-memoria-mume,Archivo Oral de la Memoria,"Museo de la Memoria (MUME), Intendencia de Montevideo",Uruguay,UY,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,-34.9011,-56.1645,Spanish,,state terrorism; human rights; memory; political history; resistance history,Genocide & mass violence; History & politics; Human rights & justice; Memory & community; War & conflict,1973,1985,1973,1985,"Created by Montevideo's Museum of Memory together with the Association of Friends of MUME, this oral archive holds recorded testimonies from former political prisoners of Uruguay's civil-military dictatorship, including accounts from clandestine detention and torture sites, plus testimonies from relatives of the disappeared, accessible to researchers by appointment.",https://mume.montevideo.gub.uy/archivo-oral-de-la-memoria,,In-person access by appointment; summaries of available testimonies are published on the museum's site.,on site only,museum,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000180,nicaragua-narrativas-orales-ihnca-exilio,Narrativas Orales — Brigada de Rescate Histórico Germán Pomares Ordóñez,Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica (IHNCA),Nicaragua,NI,Americas,Latin America and the Caribbean,12.1364,-86.2514,Spanish,,political history; resistance history; war and conflict; community memory,History & politics; Memory & community; War & conflict,1980,1980,,,"In 1980, alongside Nicaragua's National Literacy Campaign, some 215 university-student brigadistas recorded roughly 6,900 cassette interviews with popular leaders and witnesses about the Somoza dictatorship and the Sandinista Popular Insurrection; the collection was held at IHNCA (Universidad Centroamericana) until the government's 2023 confiscation of the university, after which exiled Jesuit staff republished the digitized collection at 'El IHNCA en el Exilio'.",https://ihncaexilio.org/el-acervo-ihnca/colecciones/,El IHNCA en el Exilio. Colecciones. Retrieved from https://ihncaexilio.org/el-acervo-ihnca/colecciones/.,Freely browsable online following the 2023 relaunch as 'El IHNCA en el Exilio' after the original archive at UCA Managua was confiscated by the Nicaraguan government.,open online,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000181,vietnam-institute-musicology-databank,Vietnamese Institute for Musicology Data Bank,Vietnamese Institute for Musicology (Viện Âm nhạc Việt Nam),Vietnam,VN,Asia,South-eastern Asia,21.0285,105.8542,Vietnamese; Multiple languages,multiple Vietnamese ethnic minority languages,ethnomusicology; folklife; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1976,,,,"Vietnam's national musicology institute, formally independent since 1976, conducts ongoing fieldwork recording traditional and folk music across the country's ethnic groups, including tens of thousands of folk song and instrumental recordings catalogued in a searchable online data bank.",https://www.vienamnhac.vn/data-bank.html,Vietnamese Institute for Musicology. Data Bank. Retrieved from https://www.vienamnhac.vn/data-bank.html.,Catalog entries and some audio browsable on the institute's website; full recordings typically require contacting the institute directly.,partial online,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000182,thailand-sac-anthropological-archives,Anthropological Archives Database,Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC),Thailand,TH,Asia,South-eastern Asia,13.7739,100.4571,Thai; Multiple languages,multiple Thai regional and ethnic languages,folklore; linguistics; oral tradition,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1991,,,,"A public anthropological research organization under Thailand's Ministry of Culture that systematically gathers and preserves ethnographic material from across the country, including audio field recordings, in a searchable online Anthropological Archives Database.",https://db.sac.or.th/anthroarchives/en/about-us.php,,Database searchable online in Thai and English; some holdings require an in-person research visit to Bangkok.,partial online,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000183,indonesia-jaap-kunst-collection-ntt,Jaap Kunst Collection,"Perpustakaan Daerah Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT Regional Library), with University of Amsterdam",Indonesia,ID,Asia,South-eastern Asia,-10.1772,123.607,Indonesian; Multiple languages,"multiple regional languages of Flores, Sumba, Alor, Timor and Kisar",ethnomusicology; music; colonial history,"Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Music, performance & broadcasting",1919,1934,,,"Colonial-era sound recordings, film footage, and photographs made by ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst across Flores, Sumba, Alor, Timor, and Kisar between 1919 and 1934 were digitally repatriated in 2024 by the University of Amsterdam to the NTT Regional Library in Kupang, where they are now accessible in a dedicated 'Jaap Kunst Corner.'",https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/news/2024/10/uva-returns-sound-recordings-and-film-footage-from-colonial-collection-to-indonesia.html,University of Amsterdam. UvA returns sound recordings and film footage from colonial collection to Indonesia (October 2024).,"Digitized copies freely accessible in person at the NTT Regional Library, Kupang; original recordings remain held at the University of Amsterdam.",on site only,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000184,philippines-hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings,Hinilawod Epic Chant Recordings,"Henry Luce III Library, Central Philippine University",Philippines,PH,Asia,South-eastern Asia,10.7305,122.5637,Karay-a,,epic performance; oral tradition; folklore,Oral tradition & folklore,1956,1957,,,"Magnetic-tape recordings of the Hinilawod, the epic cycle of Panay, chanted in archaic Karay-a by tradition-bearers Ulang Udig and Narcisa 'Hugan-an' Lingaya and recorded by anthropologist F. Landa Jocano in 1956-57. Inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP) Register in 2024 as the earliest extensive documentation of the Panay epics.",https://library.cpu.edu.ph/hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings-secured-in-unescos-memory-of-the-world-registry/,Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific. Hinilawod Epic Chant Recordings (2024). https://www.mowcapunesco.org/register/hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings-2024/,"Digitized and curated by the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology; original tapes held at Central Philippine University, Iloilo City.",,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000185,malaysia-arkib-negara-oral-history,National Archives of Malaysia Oral History Programme,National Archives of Malaysia (Arkib Negara Malaysia),Malaysia,MY,Asia,South-eastern Asia,3.172,101.674,Malay,,oral tradition; history; community memory,History & politics; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1963,,,,"Malaysia's national archives has run an oral history programme since 1963, one of the earliest in Southeast Asia, housed within its Documentation and Publication section; interviews recorded through the programme have been used extensively in local historical publications since the 1980s.",https://www.arkib.gov.my/en/,,Registration required for full access; short audio excerpts viewable online via the Archives' Online Finding Aid at ofa.arkib.gov.my.,registration required,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000186,png-ipngs-music-archive,IPNGS Music Archive,Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies (IPNGS),Papua New Guinea,PG,Oceania,Melanesia,-9.4707,147.1908,Multiple languages,multiple Papua New Guinean languages,ethnomusicology; music; folklife,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1898,,,,"A government-funded cultural research institute established in 1974 whose Music Archive holds the world's largest collection of Papua New Guinean music recordings and documentation: more than 6,700 collections totalling roughly 12,000 hours of tape, cassette, and digital recordings, including early wax-cylinder and shellac recordings dating to 1898 repatriated from European archives.",https://www.ipngs.gov.pg/,,Access to the archive is by application to IPNGS in Port Moresby.,on request,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000187,solomon-islands-national-museum-tapes,Solomon Islands National Museum Analog Tape Collection,Solomon Islands Archives and National Museum,Solomon Islands,SB,Oceania,Melanesia,-9.428,159.9498,Multiple languages,multiple Solomon Islands languages,language documentation; folklife; oral tradition,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1970,,,,"Around 200 analog tapes held by the Solomon Islands National Museum contain field recordings in local languages and recordings of customary knowledge made from the 1970s by Solomon Islands government agencies and visiting researchers, covering many of the country's 74 languages, several with few remaining speakers.",https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP693,"Endangered Archives Programme, British Library. EAP693: Preservation of Solomon Islands analog recordings.","Digitized copies deposited with the Solomon Islands National Museum, PARADISEC, and the British Library; originals remain in Honiara.",,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000188,fsm-micsem-music-archive,MicSem Music Collection,Micronesian Seminar (MicSem),Federated States of Micronesia,FM,Oceania,Micronesia,6.96,158.2075,Multiple languages,multiple Micronesian languages,ethnomusicology; music; folklife,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1950,1990,,,"MicSem, a Catholic Church-founded research and public education organization based in Pohnpei since 1992, holds a digitized collection of over 20,000 tracks of Micronesian music, including recordings gathered from government radio stations across Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Yap, the Marshall Islands, and Palau dating from the 1950s onward, searchable through its own website.",https://micsem.org/music/music-listing/,,Music listings and audio streams are freely browsable on the MicSem website.,open online,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000189,marshall-islands-alele-museum-archive,Alele Museum Audio-Visual Collection,"Alele Museum, Public Library and National Archives",Marshall Islands,MH,Oceania,Micronesia,7.105,171.38,Marshallese,,folklife; oral tradition; community memory,Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1980,1999,,,"The Marshall Islands' national museum, library, and archive holds a video and audio collection including local television programs, traditional stories and proverbs, and community event recordings from the 1980s and 1990s, some documenting traditions no longer held by living community members.",https://www.alele.org/,,Located in Majuro; the archive functions as the country's designated national archives.,,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000190,nepal-madan-puraskar-pustakalaya-audio,Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya Audio-Visual Collection,Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya,Nepal,NP,Asia,Southern Asia,27.671,85.3247,Nepali,,oral tradition; linguistics; folklife,Language & linguistics; Oral tradition & folklore,1955,,,,"Nepal's principal Nepali-language library and archive, founded in 1955, holds an audio-visual collection of roughly 750 items including oral testimonies, an audio corpus of Nepali speech, transcribed radio interviews, and recorded voices of Nepali writers.",https://madanpuraskar.org/collection-development-2/,,"Materials are held at the library's premises in Patan, Lalitpur; researchers should contact the library directly for access.",on request,,,,partially_verified,,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000191,sri-lanka-national-library-folklore-collection,Folklore Collection,National Library of Sri Lanka,Sri Lanka,LK,Asia,Southern Asia,6.9066,79.863,Sinhala; Tamil,,folklore; oral tradition,Oral tradition & folklore,1990,,,,"Sri Lanka's national library maintains a dedicated Folklore Collection documenting Sinhala and Tamil oral traditions, folk literature, and related documentary heritage as part of its national holdings.",http://www.natlib.lk/index.php/folklore-collection,,Located in Colombo; materials accessible on-site as part of the library's reference collection.,on site only,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,Source URL returned 404 in the 2026-09-21 link check; site restructured. Scope (manuscripts vs. recordings) needs curator review.,"v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.",2026-09-01 +MV-000192,activist-women-s-voices,Activist Women's Voices,Activist Women's Voices,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7485,-73.9836,English,,women's history; community memory; oral tradition,Gender & sexuality; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1995,,,,"An oral history project documenting 35 women activists from community-based organizations in the New York City area, representing Arab-American, Haitian, Hispanic, African-American, and Asian-American communities. The collection covers the period from 1995 to 2000 and is held at the Mina Rees Library at CUNY Graduate Center.",https://gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Centers-and-Institutes/Center-for-the-Study-of-Women-and-Society/Research-Projects,Activist Women's Voices. Retrieved from https://gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Centers-and-Institutes/Center-for-the-Study-of-Women-and-Society/Research-Projects.,,,,lesbian-herstory-archives; jewish-womens-archive-weaving-words; nmai-archive-center,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q22906176; URL from wikipedia:infobox). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000193,a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland,A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland,A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.4719,-81.6969,English,,community memory; human rights; history,History & politics; Human rights & justice; Memory & community,2015,,,,"A community-created digital archive launched in 2015 to document experiences of police violence not captured in official narratives. The archive collects photographs and oral testimony from community members via the Omeka platform, grounded in archival activism and community healing from state violence.",https://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org,A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland. Retrieved from https://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org.,,,community or independent project,storycorps-national-archive; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q76000748; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000194,archives-of-american-art,Archives of American Art,Archives of American Art,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8979,-77.0227,English,,history,History & politics,1954,,,,"The Archives of American Art holds over 20 million items of primary resources documenting the history of visual arts in the United States, including more than 2,000 art-related oral history interviews. The collection encompasses papers of artists, materials from galleries, dealers, and collectors, and represents all regions of the country across numerous eras and art movements.",https://www.aaa.si.edu/,Archives of American Art. Retrieved from https://www.aaa.si.edu/.,,,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q2860568; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000195,association-for-diplomatic-studies-and-training,Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training,Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.8676,-77.1015,English,,history; political history,History & politics,1986,,,,"The ADST's Foreign Affairs Oral History program has recorded over 2,600 oral histories by American diplomats. The organization also produces and shares these oral histories and facilitates publication of books about diplomacy by diplomats and others.",https://adst.org,Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Retrieved from https://adst.org.,,,foundation or nonprofit,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q4809439; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000196,freedom-collection,Freedom Collection,Freedom Collection,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,32.772,-96.7947,English; Arabic; Czech; Spanish,,human rights; political history,History & politics; Human rights & justice,2012,,,,"Freedom Collection is a digital repository documenting major human rights and freedom movement figures from the 20th and 21st centuries through video interviews and documents. Launched in March 2012 with 56 interviews, it features contributors including former national leaders and civil rights activists from multiple countries. As of 2022, the website had not been updated since 2016 and the YouTube channel since October 2015, with unclear current status.",https://www.bushcenter.org/freedom-collection,Freedom Collection. Retrieved from https://www.bushcenter.org/freedom-collection.,,,,usc-shoah-foundation-vha; fortunoff-video-archive; armenian-film-foundation,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q17014741; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000197,german-broadcasting-archive-deutsches-rundfunkarchiv,German Broadcasting Archive (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv; DRA),German Broadcasting Archive,Germany,DE,Europe,Western Europe,52.3897,13.1198,German,,broadcast history,"Music, performance & broadcasting",1952,,,,The DRA is a non-profit foundation supported by ARD that preserves essential aspects of German broadcasting history through sound recordings. It was founded in 1952 as the German sound archive and maintains two locations in Frankfurt am Main and Potsdam-Babelsberg.,https://www.dra.de/,German Broadcasting Archive. German Broadcasting Archive (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv; DRA). Retrieved from https://www.dra.de/.,,,broadcaster,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q1205934; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000198,j-s-battye-library-of-west-australian-history,J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History,J S Battye Library,Australia,AU,Oceania,Australia and New Zealand,-31.9489,115.861,English,,history,History & politics,1956,,,,"The J. S. Battye Library is a division of the State Library of Western Australia that holds historical records including oral history tapes, photographs, artworks, films, videos, and non-government records. The library provides reference, copying, genealogical, consultancy, and reader education services.",https://slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning/battye_library,J S Battye Library. J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History. Retrieved from https://slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning/battye_library.,,,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q6109426; URL from wikipedia:infobox). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000199,moise-a-khayrallah-center-for-lebanese-diaspora,Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies,Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,35.7868,-78.6679,English; Arabic,,migration; community memory; history,History & politics; Memory & community; Migration & displacement,2010,,,,A research center at North Carolina State University that supports oral history collection and maintains a digital archive of material about the Lebanese diaspora in the US and worldwide. The center has produced documentary and museum exhibition work on Lebanese-American history in North Carolina.,https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/,Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. Retrieved from https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/.,,,university or research institute,saada-archive; immigration-history-research-center-umn; storycorps-national-archive,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q22095741; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000200,national-archives-of-the-cook-islands,National Archives of the Cook Islands,National Archives of the Cook Islands,Cook Islands,CK,Oceania,Polynesia,-21.2082,-159.7755,Cook Islands Māori; English,,oral tradition; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; Oral tradition & folklore,1974,,,,"The National Archives of the Cook Islands was established in 1974 to preserve government records, cultural materials, and oral traditions. It holds a collection of over 4,000 images of the Cook Islands from the 1950s from the Donald Stanley Marshall collection.",https://www.culture.gov.ck/category/national-archives/,National Archives of the Cook Islands. Retrieved from https://www.culture.gov.ck/category/national-archives/.,,,national archive or library,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q16893043; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000201,national-smokejumper-association,National Smokejumper Association,National Smokejumper Association,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,46.8722,-113.9931,English,,history; labor history,History & politics; Labor,1993,,,,"The NSA preserves the history of smokejumping and aerial fire management through interviews, rosters, photographs, films, letters, reports and publications. It serves as a meeting area for people involved in wildland firefighting and supports preservation of national forests and grasslands.",https://smokejumpers.com/,National Smokejumper Association. Retrieved from https://smokejumpers.com/.,,,foundation or nonprofit,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q6978470; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000202,pangloss-collection,Pangloss Collection,Pangloss Collection,France,FR,Europe,Western Europe,48.8581,2.353,Multiple languages,"about 170 languages, mostly of small, often endangered speech communities",language documentation,Language & linguistics,1996,,,,"The Pangloss Collection is a digital library developed by the LACITO centre of CNRS in Paris that stores audio recordings in endangered languages from all continents. It provides free online access to documents of connected, spontaneous speech in little-documented languages.",https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/,Pangloss Collection. Retrieved from https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/.,,,,institut-kurde-paris,,partially_verified,,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q6468667; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000203,preserve-the-baltimore-uprising,Preserve the Baltimore Uprising,Preserve the Baltimore Uprising,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,39.2815,-76.6146,English,,community memory; history; human rights; political history,History & politics; Human rights & justice; Memory & community,2015,,2015,2015,"A crowd-sourced digital archive preserving media created by people and organizations involved in or witnessing the 2015 Baltimore protests following Freddie Gray's death. As of 2018, the collection held over 3,000 documents including images and oral histories, with materials portraying diverse perspectives on the events.",https://baltimoreuprising2015.org/,Preserve the Baltimore Uprising. Retrieved from https://baltimoreuprising2015.org/.,,,,storycorps-national-archive; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q96400016; URL from wikipedia:infobox). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000204,the-interviews-an-oral-history-of-television,The Interviews: An Oral History of Television,The Interviews: An Oral History of Television,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.0492,-118.232,English,,broadcast history,"Music, performance & broadcasting",1997,,,,"A project of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that records videotaped interviews with television pioneers and industry professionals. The archive has interviewed over 950 people and posted over 900 interviews online, covering actors, producers, newscasters, and executives from all Emmy-recognized television professions.",https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/,The Interviews: An Oral History of Television. Retrieved from https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/.,,,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q4787268; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000205,the-outwords-archive,The Outwords Archive,The OUTWORDS Archive,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,34.0492,-118.232,English,,community memory; human rights,Human rights & justice; Memory & community,2016,,,,"The Outwords Archive records on-camera interviews with elders from the LGBTQ+ community throughout the United States. The nonprofit's stated mission is to capture, preserve, and share the stories of LGBTQIA2S+ elders to build community and catalyze social change. Their digital collection is made available to the public for free through their website.",https://www.theoutwordsarchive.org/,The OUTWORDS Archive. The Outwords Archive. Retrieved from https://www.theoutwordsarchive.org/.,,,,storycorps-national-archive; usc-shoah-foundation-vha; one-archives-usc,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q65089759; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000206,war-childhood-museum,War Childhood Museum,War Childhood Museum,Bosnia and Herzegovina,BA,Europe,Southern Europe,43.862,18.4285,Bosnian,,war and conflict; community memory; everyday life,Memory & community; War & conflict,2010,,1992,1995,"The War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo collects and presents the memories of children who lived through the Bosnian war, gathered initially through an online platform that received over 1,000 submissions from young adults. The museum displays these recollections through objects, video testimonies, and oral history excerpts.",https://warchildhood.org/,War Childhood Museum. Retrieved from https://warchildhood.org/.,,,museum,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q28654544; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000207,osterreichische-mediathek,Österreichische Mediathek,Österreichische Mediathek,Austria,AT,Europe,Western Europe,48.1923,16.3487,German,,history,History & politics,1960,,,,"The Österreichische Mediathek is the Austrian archive for sound recordings and videos documenting cultural and contemporary history. Founded in 1960 as the Österreichische Phonothek by the Ministry of Education, it has been a branch of the Vienna Technical Museum since 2001. It is responsible for preserving Austrian audio-visual cultural heritage, excluding film on photographic carrier material and photography.",https://www.mediathek.at/,Österreichische Mediathek. Retrieved from https://www.mediathek.at/.,,,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q303798; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000208,oral-history-of-american-music,Oral History of American Music,Oral History of American Music,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.3304,-72.9,English,,music,"Music, performance & broadcasting",1969,,,,"An oral history project and archive of audio and video recordings consisting mainly of interviews with American classical and jazz musicians. Currently holds approximately 3,000 interviews with more than 900 subjects and is considered the definitive collection of its kind. Housed as a special collection of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University.",https://library.yale.edu/visit-and-study/libraries-locations/gilmore-music-library/oral-history-american-music,Oral History of American Music. Retrieved from https://library.yale.edu/visit-and-study/libraries-locations/gilmore-music-library/oral-history-american-music.,,,,ralph-rinzler-folklife-archives; association-cultural-equity-lomax,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q22095677; URL from wikidata:P856). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000209,slave-narratives-a-folk-history-of-slavery-in-the,Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States,Slave Narrative Collection,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,38.9015,-77.0114,English,,oral tradition; history; community memory; folklife,History & politics; Memory & community; Oral tradition & folklore,1936,,,,"A collection of oral histories and photographs from formerly enslaved people gathered by the Federal Writers' Project across seventeen states from 1936 to 1939. The collection contains more than 10,000 typed pages representing more than 2,000 interviews, now in the public domain and digitized. The Library of Congress holds digitized audio recordings from the project.",https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/articles-and-essays/introduction-to-the-wpa-slave-narratives/wpa-and-the-slave-narrative-collection/,Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/articles-and-essays/introduction-to-the-wpa-slave-narratives/wpa-and-the-slave-narrative-collection/.,,,,ralph-rinzler-folklife-archives; association-cultural-equity-lomax; nmai-archive-center,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q7539156; URL from wikipedia:infobox). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000210,swaziland-oral-history-project,Swaziland Oral History Project,University of Cape Town Libraries (Emandulo digital collections),Eswatini,SZ,Africa,Sub-Saharan Africa,-26.4667,31.2,Swazi; English,Interviews mainly in siSwati; a selection transcribed and translated into English.,oral tradition; history; indigenous history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; History & politics; Oral tradition & folklore,1985,,,,"The Swaziland Oral History Project is a research and archival initiative that collects, preserves, transcribes and translates oral histories, clan genealogies and testimonies of Swazi elders, with particular attention to precolonial history of the Swazi kingdom. Materials were developed through cooperation between Swazi archivists, elders and professional historians, and were also transferred to the Historical Papers Research Archive at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.",https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/metadata/SWOHP/index.html,University of Cape Town Libraries (Emandulo digital collections). Swaziland Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/metadata/SWOHP/index.html.,,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,,"Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest, September 2026 audit (Wikidata Q137572000; URL from wikipedia:infobox). See data/new-entries-provenance.json.",2026-09-20 +MV-000211,schweizerisches-volksliedarchiv,Schweizerisches Volksliedarchiv (Swiss Folk Song Archive),"Empirische Kulturwissenschaft Schweiz (formerly Swiss Society for Folklore), Basel",Switzerland,CH,Europe,Western Europe,47.5596,7.5886,Multiple languages,Swiss folk song; the source does not list the languages or dialects of the recordings.,music; folklore; oral tradition,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1906,,,,"Founded in 1906 by the Swiss Society for Folklore to collect and study Swiss folk song, the archive in Basel holds song collections alongside sound recordings, including historical field recordings and some 400 records and tapes from the Armin Breu collection; its tape recordings were transferred to digital formats between 1998 and 2000.",https://volksliedarchiv.ch/,"Empirische Kulturwissenschaft Schweiz (formerly Swiss Society for Folklore), Basel. Schweizerisches Volksliedarchiv (Swiss Folk Song Archive). Retrieved from https://volksliedarchiv.ch/.",,,,,,partially_verified,Recording languages not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +MV-000212,uysal-walker-archive-turkish-oral-narrative,Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative,"Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University",Turkey,TR,Asia,Western Asia,39.9334,32.8597,Turkish; English,"Tales recorded in Turkish; about 2,000 translated into English by native Turkish speakers.",oral tradition; folklore; music,"Music, performance & broadcasting; Oral tradition & folklore",1961,,,,"Folktales and other oral narratives collected in Turkey from 1961 by Ahmet E. Uysal, Warren S. Walker and Barbara K. Walker and donated to Texas Tech University in 1980. The archive's site offers transcriptions and English translations of some 2,000 tales, audio recordings, and over forty hours of Turkish folk music.",https://www.aton.ttu.edu/,"Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University. Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative. Retrieved from https://www.aton.ttu.edu/.",,,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,End year of collecting not stated by the source; decade_end left open.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +MV-000213,bc-archives-sound-heritage-series,Sound Heritage Series sound programs,"BC Archives, Royal BC Museum",Canada,CA,Americas,Northern America,48.4198,-123.3675,English,,history; social history; community memory,History & politics; Memory & community,1976,1983,,,"Twenty documentary sound programs produced by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia's Aural History Programme to accompany its Sound Heritage publications (1976–1983), built from excerpts of oral history interviews in the archives' collection. The materials are held by the Royal BC Museum, which merged with the provincial archives in 2003.",https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/sound-heritage-series-sound-programs,"BC Archives, Royal BC Museum. Sound Heritage Series sound programs. Retrieved from https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/sound-heritage-series-sound-programs.",,,,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +MV-000214,fis-oral-history-of-iran,Oral History of Iran,Foundation for Iranian Studies,Iran,IR,Asia,Southern Asia,35.6892,51.389,Persian; English,The foundation lists interviews by language; English interviews were conducted jointly with Columbia University.,political history; history; national memory,History & politics; Memory & community,1982,,,,"Begun in 1982 by the Bethesda-based Foundation for Iranian Studies, the program recorded structured interviews with about 180 political, diplomatic, cultural and economic figures of Pahlavi-era Iran, both proponents and opponents of the state's decisions. Tapes and transcripts are kept by the foundation; copies of the English interviews are held in Columbia University's Oral History Archives.",https://fis-iran.org/oralhistory/,Foundation for Iranian Studies. Oral History of Iran. Retrieved from https://fis-iran.org/oralhistory/.,,,foundation or nonprofit,columbia-oral-history-archives; harvard-iranian-oral-history,,partially_verified,Persian inferred from the foundation's by-language listing; end year not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +MV-000215,samuel-proctor-oral-history-program,Samuel Proctor Oral History Program,University of Florida,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,29.6436,-82.3549,English,,history; social history; indigenous history; military history,Colonialism & Indigenous histories; History & politics; War & conflict,1967,,,,"Founded at the University of Florida in 1967, the program holds more than 10,000 interviews and sound recordings documenting Florida, the U.S. Southeast and beyond, with major projects on Native American, African American, military and county history; about 8,000 are publicly available through UF Digital Collections. Its projects include the Mississippi Freedom Project interviews with civil rights veterans.",https://oral.history.ufl.edu/,University of Florida. Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Retrieved from https://oral.history.ufl.edu/.,"About 8,000 interviews freely accessible online through UF Digital Collections.",,university or research institute,sohp-unc,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +MV-000216,columbia-oral-history-archives,Oral History Archives at Columbia,"Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.8064,-73.9632,English,,history; political history; social history,History & politics,1948,,,,"Founded by historian Allan Nevins, who recorded his first interview on 18 May 1948, the archive is widely credited with starting the modern oral history movement. It now holds over 10,000 interviews with people in politics, philanthropy, business, media, medicine, science, law, the military, architecture and the arts, and is open to all at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.",https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml/collecting/oral-history.html,"Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University. Oral History Archives at Columbia. Retrieved from https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml/collecting/oral-history.html.","Open to all researchers at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library.",on site only,university or research institute,fis-oral-history-of-iran,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +MV-000217,bancroft-oral-history-center,Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library,"Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,37.8721,-122.2585,English,,history; political history; social history,History & politics,1954,,,,"Established in 1954 as the Regional Oral History Office to interview leading figures of the American West — the second university oral history office in the U.S. after Columbia — and renamed the Oral History Center in 2014. Its collection holds over 5,000 interviews with governors, industrialists, artists, activists and scholars, most of them available online.",https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center,"Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library. Retrieved from https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center.",Most interviews available online.,partial online,university or research institute,roho-disability-rights,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +MV-000218,black-women-oral-history-project,Black Women Oral History Project,"Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,42.3764,-71.1226,English,,women's history; social history; civil rights,Gender & sexuality; History & politics; Human rights & justice,1976,1981,,,"Between 1976 and 1981 the project interviewed 72 African American women, many then in their 70s to 90s, who had made significant contributions to American life in the first half of the 20th century, covering family, education, careers, voluntary and union work, and how race and gender shaped their choices.",https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project,"Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Black Women Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project.",Transcripts and audio are fully digitized and available online through the library's research guide.,open online,university or research institute,,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +MV-000219,queens-memory-project,Queens Memory Project,Queens Public Library and Queens College Libraries (CUNY),United States,US,Americas,Northern America,40.7057,-73.7967,English; Bengali; Hindi; Korean; Mandarin Chinese; Nepali; Tagalog; Tibetan; Urdu,"The project has produced bilingual episodes in Bangla, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Nepali, Tagalog, Tibetan and Urdu, widely spoken Asian languages in Queens.",community memory; migration; everyday life,Memory & community; Migration & displacement,2010,,,,"A community archive founded in 2010 by Queens College and Queens Public Library that records oral histories with residents of Queens, New York — one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world — about their neighborhoods, migrations and everyday lives.",https://www.queensmemory.org/,Queens Public Library and Queens College Libraries (CUNY). Queens Memory Project. Retrieved from https://www.queensmemory.org/.,,,,storycorps-national-archive,,partially_verified,,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +MV-000220,voices-of-oklahoma,Voices of Oklahoma,"Voices of Oklahoma, in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society",United States,US,Americas,Northern America,36.154,-95.9928,English,,history; community memory; political history,History & politics; Memory & community,2009,,,,"An oral history website founded in Tulsa by radio broadcaster John Erling, recording in-depth interviews with Oklahomans including political and tribal leaders, entertainers, business figures and survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre; it works in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society.",https://voicesofoklahoma.com/,"Voices of Oklahoma, in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society. Voices of Oklahoma. Retrieved from https://voicesofoklahoma.com/.","Interviews freely available online, with audio and transcripts.",open online,,,,partially_verified,Sources give 2009 or 2010 as the start year; languages inferred.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 +MV-000221,west-point-center-for-oral-history,West Point Center for Oral History,United States Military Academy,United States,US,Americas,Northern America,41.3915,-73.9565,English,,war and conflict; military history,War & conflict,2008,,,,"A video oral history archive founded at the U.S. Military Academy in 2008 to record the experiences of soldiers, statesmen and others who have shaped the profession of arms, with collections on Vietnam, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the African-American military experience, and women in the military.",https://www.westpoint.edu/directory/center-for-oral-history,United States Military Academy. West Point Center for Oral History. Retrieved from https://www.westpoint.edu/directory/center-for-oral-history.,,,,veterans-history-project,,partially_verified,Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.,"Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.",2026-09-27 diff --git a/data/collections.geojson b/data/collections.geojson index 530988b..d2468c5 100644 --- a/data/collections.geojson +++ b/data/collections.geojson @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ "url": "https://www.loc.gov/vets/", "citation": "Library of Congress, American Folklife Center. Veterans History Project. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/vets/.", "access_notes": "Many interviews viewable online via the Library of Congress; the full collection is available by research visit.", + "access": "partial online", "related_ids": [ "iwm-sound-archive", "korean-war-legacy-foundation", @@ -135,10 +136,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 1996, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1942, + "historical_period_end": 1946, "summary": "Densho preserves and freely shares video oral history interviews with Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated during World War II, alongside primary-source documents and photographs from before, during, and after that period.", "url": "https://ddr.densho.org/", "citation": "Densho. Densho Digital Repository. Retrieved from https://ddr.densho.org/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "japanese-american-national-museum", "the-historymakers" @@ -190,6 +194,7 @@ "url": "https://sfi.usc.edu/vha", "citation": "USC Shoah Foundation. Visual History Archive. Retrieved from https://sfi.usc.edu/vha.", "access_notes": "Full testimonies require registration through partner institutions or educational access via IWitness; some clips are public.", + "access": "registration required", "related_ids": [ "a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland", "armenian-film-foundation", @@ -292,6 +297,7 @@ "summary": "The permanent home for the statements, documents, and video testimony gathered by Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission from Survivors of the residential school system.", "url": "https://nctr.ca/", "citation": "University of Manitoba. National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Retrieved from https://nctr.ca/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "doris-duke-utah-oral-history" ], @@ -336,6 +342,7 @@ "summary": "A collaborative virtual museum of life stories founded in Sao Paulo in 1991, holding tens of thousands of personal narratives documenting migration, work, and community memory across Brazil.", "url": "https://museudapessoa.org/", "citation": "Museu da Pessoa. Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person). Retrieved from https://museudapessoa.org/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "cpdoc-fgv-brazil" ], @@ -424,6 +431,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 1999, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1976, + "historical_period_end": 1983, "summary": "An alliance of Argentine human rights organizations whose oral archive gathers testimony from people affected by state terrorism during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship and the resistance to it.", "url": "https://memoriaabierta.org.ar/wp/archivo-oral/", "citation": "Memoria Abierta. Archivo Oral de Memoria Abierta. Retrieved from https://memoriaabierta.org.ar/wp/archivo-oral/.", @@ -522,6 +531,7 @@ "summary": "Digitized recordings from the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies Archives and partner collections, offering thousands of songs, stories, and oral history recorded across Scotland from the 1930s onward.", "url": "https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/", "citation": "School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh. Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o Riches. Retrieved from https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "association-cultural-equity-lomax", "duchas-national-folklore-collection", @@ -569,6 +579,7 @@ "summary": "One of Europe's largest folklore archives, held at University College Dublin and digitized via duchas.ie, including the 1930s Schools' Collection of oral tradition gathered by schoolchildren and thousands of hours of sound recordings.", "url": "https://www.duchas.ie/en", "citation": "University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection (Duchas). Retrieved from https://www.duchas.ie/en.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive", "tobar-an-dualchais" @@ -666,6 +677,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2010, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1947, + "historical_period_end": 1947, "summary": "A crowd-sourced oral history project, founded in Berkeley in 2010, that has recorded over 12,000 witness accounts of the 1947 Partition of British India from survivors across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the diaspora.", "url": "https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/", "citation": "The 1947 Partition Archive. The 1947 Partition Archive. Retrieved from https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/.", @@ -711,9 +724,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1986, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1945, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Video testimonies of hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) recorded by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum since 1986, documenting firsthand accounts of the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath.", "url": "https://hpmm-db.jp/testify_en/", "citation": "Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. A-bomb Survivor Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://hpmm-db.jp/testify_en/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "nagasaki-peace-memorial-testimonies", "okinawa-peace-memorial-museum" @@ -756,6 +772,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 1995, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1975, + "historical_period_end": 1979, "summary": "DC-Cam documents the history of the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) through survivor and perpetrator testimony, including an oral history project tied to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.", "url": "https://www.dccam.org/", "citation": "Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam). Documentation Center of Cambodia Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.dccam.org/.", @@ -805,6 +823,7 @@ "summary": "Based at the American University of Beirut, POHA holds over 1,000 hours of testimony from first-generation Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, documenting memories of pre-1948 Palestine and subsequent displacement.", "url": "https://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Pages/poha.aspx", "citation": "American University of Beirut, Issam Fares Institute. Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA). Retrieved from https://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Pages/poha.aspx.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "ips-narrating-palestine", "umam-documentation-research", @@ -851,6 +870,7 @@ "summary": "Australia's national collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage, including decades of oral history interviews and language recordings gathered in partnership with Indigenous communities.", "url": "https://aiatsis.gov.au/collection", "citation": "Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. AIATSIS Collection. Retrieved from https://aiatsis.gov.au/collection.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "nga-taonga-sound-vision", "paradisec-archive" @@ -943,6 +963,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 1988, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1948, + "historical_period_end": 1994, "summary": "An independent archive founded by anti-apartheid activists, SAHA holds oral history interviews and documents relating to the struggle against apartheid and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.", "url": "https://www.saha.org.za/collections/oral_history.htm", "citation": "South African History Archive. SAHA Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.saha.org.za/collections/oral_history.htm.", @@ -992,6 +1014,7 @@ "summary": "The District Six Museum's Sound Archive collects recorded interviews with former residents forcibly removed from Cape Town's District Six under apartheid's Group Areas Act, preserving memories of the destroyed community.", "url": "https://www.districtsix.co.za/collections/", "citation": "District Six Museum. District Six Museum Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.districtsix.co.za/collections/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "saha-oral-history" ], @@ -1035,10 +1058,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 2010, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1994, + "historical_period_end": 1994, "summary": "A digital archive holding over 8,000 survivor and witness testimonies, Gacaca court records, and memorial documentation of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, built with the University of Texas Libraries.", "url": "https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/", "citation": "Aegis Trust / National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide. Genocide Archive of Rwanda. Retrieved from https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online with a searchable video player.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "dccam-oral-history", "khmer-legacies" @@ -1089,6 +1115,7 @@ "summary": "An African Union research center based in Niamey since 1968 (created with UNESCO support as the Regional Center for Oral Tradition), CELHTO collects, studies, and preserves oral traditions and languages from across Africa on audio, video, and written media.", "url": "https://www.celhto.org/", "citation": "Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale (African Union). CELHTO Oral Tradition Archive. Retrieved from https://www.celhto.org/.", + "archive_type": "intergovernmental body", "related_ids": [ "fondation-hampate-ba", "irsh-niamey-boubou-hama", @@ -1139,6 +1166,7 @@ "summary": "Niger's oldest research institution, IRSH grew out of a regional branch of IFAN and continues the documentation work begun by historian Boubou Hama, whose collection of oral sources and manuscripts helped found Niger's tradition of oral-history-based scholarship.", "url": "https://irsh-uam.com/", "citation": "Universite Abdou Moumouni de Niamey. Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines. Retrieved from https://irsh-uam.com/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "celhto-oral-tradition-archive" ], @@ -1183,6 +1211,7 @@ "summary": "Field recordings made by linguist Charles S. Bird together with Malian collaborators, capturing griot performances of the Epic of Sunjata, kora and donso ngoni music, and hunters' songs unavailable in any other archive.", "url": "https://libraries.indiana.edu/bird-mali", "citation": "Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University. Charles S. Bird Mali Collections. Retrieved from https://libraries.indiana.edu/bird-mali.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "fondation-hampate-ba", "sahel-sounds-field-recordings" @@ -1274,6 +1303,7 @@ "summary": "A UNESCO-listed oral literary corpus (the Odu Ifa) of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria: an enormous body of verses transmitted orally by babalawo priests and drawn upon in divination practice.", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ifa-divination-system-00146", "citation": "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba babalawo tradition. Ifa Divination System. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ifa-divination-system-00146.", + "archive_type": "intergovernmental body", "related_ids": [ "gelede-oral-heritage", "sosso-bala-cultural-space" @@ -1319,6 +1349,7 @@ "summary": "A UNESCO-listed oral and performance tradition of the Yoruba-Nago communities spanning Benin, Nigeria, and Togo, combining masked dance with sung epic and satirical verse that honors women's role in social life.", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/oral-heritage-of-gelede-00002", "citation": "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba-Nago communities. Oral Heritage of Gelede. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/oral-heritage-of-gelede-00002.", + "archive_type": "intergovernmental body", "related_ids": [ "ifa-divination-system" ], @@ -1366,6 +1397,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in Dakar in 1938, IFAN holds a large sound archive of West African oral traditions, songs, and epics, including over 1,400 digitized cassette recordings and historic WWI-era recordings of Senegalese soldiers.", "url": "https://ifan.ucad.sn/", "citation": "Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop. IFAN Sound Archives. Retrieved from https://ifan.ucad.sn/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "nketia-archives-ghana", "sahel-sounds-field-recordings" @@ -1417,6 +1449,7 @@ "summary": "Named for ethnomusicologist J.H. Kwabena Nketia, this archive at the University of Ghana holds the largest and most systematic set of recordings by any African ethnomusicologist: over six decades of field recordings documenting music, oral tradition, and performance across Ghana.", "url": "https://ias.ug.edu.gh/content/jh-kwabena-nketia-archives", "citation": "Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. J.H. Kwabena Nketia Archives. Retrieved from https://ias.ug.edu.gh/content/jh-kwabena-nketia-archives.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "ifan-dakar-sound-archives" ], @@ -1466,6 +1499,7 @@ "url": "https://blog.sahelsounds.com/", "citation": "Sahel Sounds. Field Recordings from the Sahel. Retrieved from https://blog.sahelsounds.com/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online via blog and Bandcamp releases.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "bird-mali-collections", "celhto-oral-tradition-archive", @@ -1516,6 +1550,7 @@ "url": "https://ui.edu.ng/content/institute-african-studies", "citation": "Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. African Studies Ibadan Audiovisual and Arabic Manuscripts Archive. Retrieved from https://ui.edu.ng/content/institute-african-studies.", "access_notes": "In-person access at the Institute; digitized portions being released via the Endangered Archives Programme.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "endangered-archives-programme" ], @@ -1564,6 +1599,8 @@ "url": "https://www.archives.gov.zw/", "citation": "National Archives of Zimbabwe. Oral History Programme. Retrieved from https://www.archives.gov.zw/.", "access_notes": "In-person/reading-room access; some liberation-history recordings referenced in public reporting.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -1609,6 +1646,7 @@ "summary": "Kenya's national archive, established by Act of Parliament in 1965, holds audio cassette recordings of oral histories and folk songs alongside colonial records, government files, and papers of prominent Kenyans.", "url": "https://www.archives.go.ke/homepage", "citation": "Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service. Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.archives.go.ke/homepage.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -1655,6 +1693,7 @@ "summary": "Established in 1963, the Institute holds the world's largest single collection of Ethiopian manuscripts alongside an Audiovisual Materials section with ethnomusicological field recordings documenting Ethiopia's oral and musical traditions.", "url": "https://aau.edu.et/institute/IES", "citation": "Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University. Audiovisual Archive. Retrieved from https://aau.edu.et/institute/IES.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -1698,6 +1737,8 @@ "url": "https://858.ma/", "citation": "Mosireen Collective. 858: An Archive of Resistance. Retrieved from https://858.ma/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online, indexed and searchable video.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "community or independent project", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -1787,6 +1828,8 @@ "url": "https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/amadou-hampate-ba", "citation": "Fondation Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Retrieved via UNESCO Memory of the World: https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/amadou-hampate-ba.", "access_notes": "In-person access in Abidjan; digitization and online access underway via UNESCO partnership.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "bird-mali-collections", "celhto-oral-tradition-archive" @@ -1832,6 +1875,7 @@ "summary": "A UNESCO-listed oral epic tradition of Mauritania's Moorish tribes, recited by griot (iggawin) families accompanied by lute, harp, and kettledrum, functioning as each tribe's sung and spoken oral history handed down through generations.", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/moorish-epic-t-heydinn-00524", "citation": "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Moorish Epic T'heydinn. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/moorish-epic-t-heydinn-00524.", + "archive_type": "intergovernmental body", "related_ids": [ "sosso-bala-cultural-space" ], @@ -1878,6 +1922,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1999 as an outreach project of Makerere University's law school, the Refugee Law Project documents testimony and advocates for transitional justice for communities affected by conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda.", "url": "https://www.refugeelawproject.org/", "citation": "Refugee Law Project, Makerere University. Retrieved from https://www.refugeelawproject.org/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -1917,10 +1962,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 2002, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1948, + "historical_period_end": 1948, "summary": "An Israeli NGO founded in 2002 that collects and publishes video testimonies from Palestinian refugees who witnessed the 1948 Nakba, alongside accounts from Israelis who took part in the 1948 war, to promote public accountability and the right of return.", "url": "https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/all/en", "citation": "Zochrot. Nakba Survivor Testimonies. Retrieved from https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/all/en.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online, video testimonies with searchable database.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "ips-narrating-palestine", "palestinian-oral-history-archive" @@ -1966,6 +2014,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2004, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1975, + "historical_period_end": 1990, "summary": "A nonprofit founded in 2004 in Beirut's southern suburbs that collects documents, interviews, and narratives relating to the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, working to break cycles of blame through public engagement with contested memory.", "url": "https://www.umam-dr.org/", "citation": "UMAM Documentation & Research. Retrieved from https://www.umam-dr.org/.", @@ -2014,6 +2064,7 @@ "summary": "Launched in 2011, this project of the Beirut-based Institute for Palestine Studies digitizes and catalogs Palestinian oral history testimonies gathered by researchers across the region, from Ramallah and Haifa to Beirut, Damascus, and Amman.", "url": "https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/227700", "citation": "Institute for Palestine Studies. Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project. Retrieved from https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/227700.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "palestinian-oral-history-archive", "zochrot-nakba-testimonies" @@ -2106,10 +2157,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 1953, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1933, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Israel's official Holocaust remembrance authority, established by law in 1953, holds over 125,000 survivor testimonies (written, audio, and video) among more than 210 million pages of Holocaust documentation, with thousands available online.", "url": "https://www.yadvashem.org/archive/about/testimonies.html", "citation": "Yad Vashem. Survivor Testimonies Collection. Retrieved from https://www.yadvashem.org/archive/about/testimonies.html.", "access_notes": "Thousands of full testimonies freely viewable online; broader archive by researcher request.", + "access": "partial online", "related_ids": [ "armenian-film-foundation", "david-boder-voices-of-holocaust", @@ -2160,12 +2214,13 @@ "summary": "Launched at Harvard in 1981 by historian Habib Ladjevardi, this project recorded personal accounts of 134 political leaders and eyewitnesses to major events in Iranian history from the 1920s through the 1980s, now digitized and streamed publicly.", "url": "https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/projects/iohp", "citation": "Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Iranian Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/projects/iohp.", - "verification_status": "partially_verified", - "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", - "date_added": "2026-09-01", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "fis-oral-history-of-iran" ], + "verification_status": "partially_verified", + "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", + "date_added": "2026-09-01", "iso3166_1_alpha2": "IR", "region": "Asia", "subregion": "Southern Asia", @@ -2255,6 +2310,8 @@ "url": "https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound", "citation": "Imperial War Museums. Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound.", "access_notes": "Many recordings streamable online; full collection via research room visit.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "bl-national-life-stories", "fortunoff-video-archive", @@ -2299,10 +2356,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 2006, "decade_end": 2007, + "historical_period_start": 1968, + "historical_period_end": 1998, "summary": "Between 2006 and 2007, filmmakers recorded 161 filmed oral histories with former prisoners, officers, chaplains, and visitors inside Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison, capturing life-storytelling about Northern Ireland's Troubles.", "url": "https://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/", "citation": "Prisons Memory Archive. Retrieved from https://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/.", "access_notes": "Selected extracts online; full collection held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.", + "access": "partial online", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -2346,6 +2406,8 @@ "url": "https://www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/", "citation": "Association of Jewish Refugees. Refugee Voices Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/.", "access_notes": "Summaries and short clips online; full unedited interviews via institutional partners.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -2387,6 +2449,7 @@ "summary": "Established in 1973, the Modern Records Centre holds Britain's largest archive of trade union records and industrial relations history, including oral history recordings documenting the working-class labour movement.", "url": "https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/", "citation": "Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Retrieved from https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "bl-national-life-stories", "walter-reuther-library" @@ -2433,6 +2496,7 @@ "summary": "The National Library of Wales's Screen and Sound Archive preserves recordings of Welsh life dating from 1898 onward, including oral history interviews with Welsh migrants to North America and Patagonia, dialect recordings, and industrial-community testimony.", "url": "https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/about-our-collections/screen-sound-archive", "citation": "National Library of Wales. Screen and Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/about-our-collections/screen-sound-archive.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -2473,6 +2537,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2008, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1970, + "historical_period_end": 1989, "summary": "Operating since 2008 in Gdansk, this archive collects documents, photographs, and personal testimony documenting Poland's Solidarity trade union movement and the wider anti-communist opposition in Eastern Europe from 1970 to 1989.", "url": "https://ecs.gda.pl/en/archive/", "citation": "European Solidarity Centre. Archive. Retrieved from https://ecs.gda.pl/en/archive/.", @@ -2524,6 +2590,7 @@ "summary": "Growing out of an underground publishing project launched in early 1982 during martial law, Poland's largest community archive now holds oral history recordings and biographical accounts documenting Nazi and Soviet occupation, deportation, and communist-era persecution.", "url": "https://karta.org.pl/", "citation": "KARTA Center Foundation. Retrieved from https://karta.org.pl/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "european-solidarity-centre-archive", "memory-of-nations-czech", @@ -2573,6 +2640,7 @@ "summary": "Founded by George Soros in 1995, this Budapest archive holds Cold War-era records including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty materials and oral history interviews with former Soviet dissidents and Communist Party officials.", "url": "https://archivum.org/", "citation": "Blinken OSA Archivum, Central European University. Retrieved from https://archivum.org/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "karta-center-poland", "memory-of-nations-czech" @@ -2616,6 +2684,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2011, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1992, + "historical_period_end": 1995, "summary": "Founded in Sarajevo in 2011, the Post-Conflict Research Center collects testimony of rescuers and survivors from the 1992-95 Bosnian War through its Ordinary Heroes peacebuilding programme, preserving oral testimonies, letters, and diaries.", "url": "https://p-crc.org/our-work/post-conflict-research/rescue-and-survivor-testemonials/ordinary-heroes-digital-archive/", "citation": "Post-Conflict Research Center. Ordinary Heroes Digital Archive. Retrieved from https://p-crc.org/our-work/post-conflict-research/rescue-and-survivor-testemonials/ordinary-heroes-digital-archive/.", @@ -2662,6 +2732,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2004, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1933, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Founded in 2004 by Father Patrick Desbois, this Paris-based organization has recorded over 7,000 eyewitness interviews across Central and Eastern Europe documenting mass shootings of Jews during the Holocaust, identifying more than 3,000 execution sites.", "url": "https://www.yahadinunum.org/", "citation": "Yahad-In Unum. Holocaust by Bullets Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://www.yahadinunum.org/.", @@ -2712,6 +2784,7 @@ "summary": "One of the world's oldest sound archives, the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv preserves about 30,000 wax cylinder recordings made between 1893 and 1954 documenting music and spoken traditions from cultures around the globe, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.", "url": "https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/ethnologisches-museum/collection-research/research/sound-recordings-made-by-the-prussian-phonographic-commission/", "citation": "Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv. Retrieved from https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/ethnologisches-museum/collection-research/research/sound-recordings-made-by-the-prussian-phonographic-commission/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "association-cultural-equity-lomax", "austria-phonogrammarchiv", @@ -2761,6 +2834,8 @@ "url": "https://www.romarchive.eu/en/", "citation": "RomArchive. Retrieved from https://www.romarchive.eu/en/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "austria-phonogrammarchiv" ], @@ -2807,6 +2882,7 @@ "summary": "Consolidated in 1937 from folklore collections begun when the Society was founded in 1831, this archive holds around 4 million folklore items and 30,000 hours of sound and video, including the field poetry that formed the basis of the Finnish epic Kalevala.", "url": "https://www.finlit.fi/en/archives/", "citation": "Finnish Literature Society (SKS). Folklore Archives. Retrieved from https://www.finlit.fi/en/archives/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "duchas-national-folklore-collection", "estonian-folklore-archives", @@ -2855,6 +2931,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in Tartu in 1927, Estonia's central folklore archive holds roughly 1.5 million manuscript pages, 188,000 sound recordings, and 1,700 films documenting Estonian and Seto folk song, storytelling, and oral tradition.", "url": "https://www.kirmus.ee/en/about-us/departments/estonian-folklore-archives", "citation": "Estonian Literary Museum. Estonian Folklore Archives. Retrieved from https://www.kirmus.ee/en/about-us/departments/estonian-folklore-archives.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive", "tobar-an-dualchais" @@ -2900,6 +2977,7 @@ "summary": "Established with UNESCO support in 2002-2003, this Tbilisi research centre studies and documents Georgian traditional vocal polyphony, an oral musical tradition inscribed on UNESCO's list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.", "url": "https://polyphony.ge/en/home-2/", "citation": "International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony, Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Retrieved from https://polyphony.ge/en/home-2/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -2944,6 +3022,8 @@ "url": "https://ahotsak.eus/english/", "citation": "Badihardugu Association. Ahotsak.eus Basque Oral Archive. Retrieved from https://ahotsak.eus/english/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online, catalogued by topic and town.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -3031,6 +3111,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1899, the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv is the world's oldest audiovisual research archive, holding field recordings of languages, dialects, and non-European music made chiefly by Austrian scholars, many inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.", "url": "https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/phonogrammarchiv/history-of-the-pha", "citation": "Austrian Academy of Sciences. Phonogrammarchiv. Retrieved from https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/phonogrammarchiv/history-of-the-pha.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "berlin-phonogramm-archiv", "romarchive" @@ -3078,6 +3159,7 @@ "summary": "Located at the Sami academic park Diehtosiida in Kautokeino, the Sami Archives has preserved material relating to the Sami people since 1988, and since 2005 operates as part of Norway's National Archival Services.", "url": "https://www.arkivverket.no/om-oss/samisk-arkiv", "citation": "National Archival Services of Norway. The Sami Archives. Retrieved from https://www.arkivverket.no/om-oss/samisk-arkiv.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -3124,6 +3206,7 @@ "url": "https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/about-us", "citation": "National Archives of Singapore. Oral History Centre. Retrieved from https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/about-us.", "access_notes": "Interviews searchable online; full recordings subject to interviewee consent.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -3212,6 +3295,7 @@ "summary": "Organized beginning in 1966, this division of India's Nehru Memorial Museum and Library recorded reminiscences of figures connected to Gandhi and Nehru and participants in India's freedom struggle, later expanding to economic and cultural history; 838 transcripts are held.", "url": "https://nehruportal.nic.in/oral-history", "citation": "Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Oral History Division. Retrieved from https://nehruportal.nic.in/oral-history.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "1947-partition-archive" ], @@ -3307,6 +3391,8 @@ "url": "https://www.hkmemory.hk/en/index.html", "citation": "Hong Kong Memory Project. Retrieved from https://www.hkmemory.hk/en/index.html.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -3348,6 +3434,7 @@ "summary": "Since founding a research center in 1999, historian Su Zhiliang and colleagues have recorded testimony from more than 100 Chinese survivors of Japan's wartime military sexual slavery system, opening a dedicated museum on campus in 2016.", "url": "https://www.shnu.edu.cn/", "citation": "Shanghai Normal University. Chinese \"Comfort Women\" History Museum and Research Center. Retrieved from https://www.shnu.edu.cn/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "house-of-sharing-korea" ], @@ -3390,9 +3477,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 2008, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1947, + "historical_period_end": 1954, "summary": "Established in 2008, this foundation manages Jeju's Peace Memorial Hall and an archive of over 14,600 victim and bereaved-family testimonies documenting the 1947-54 Jeju uprising and massacre, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2025.", "url": "http://jeju43peace.org/", "citation": "Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation. Jeju 4.3 Archives. Retrieved from http://jeju43peace.org/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -3480,10 +3570,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 2005, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1950, + "historical_period_end": 1953, "summary": "Growing from a 2005 encounter with Syracuse-area veterans, this foundation built the world's largest archive of Korean War oral histories, with over 1,500 recorded interviews of veterans from dozens of participating countries.", "url": "https://koreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/", "citation": "Korean War Legacy Foundation. Interview Archive. Retrieved from https://koreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online, searchable video library.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "veterans-history-project" ], @@ -3526,9 +3620,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 2011, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1949, + "historical_period_end": 1987, "summary": "A preparatory office founded in 2011 (formally established as a museum in 2018) has recorded oral history interviews with more than 500 political prisoners and their families, documenting Taiwan's 1949-1987 White Terror era of martial-law repression.", "url": "https://www.nhrm.gov.tw/w/nhrmEN/About", "citation": "National Human Rights Museum. White Terror Oral History Archive. Retrieved from https://www.nhrm.gov.tw/w/nhrmEN/About.", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -3568,9 +3665,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1999, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1955, + "historical_period_end": 1975, "summary": "Since 1999, this project of the world's largest nongovernmental Vietnam War archive has collected over 1,100 oral history interviews with American veterans, Vietnamese allies and opponents, protesters, and family members, available via its Virtual Vietnam Archive.", "url": "https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/", "citation": "The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University. Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "veterans-history-project" ], @@ -3613,9 +3713,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1996, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1971, + "historical_period_end": 1971, "summary": "Established in Dhaka in 1996, the Liberation War Museum has coordinated student-led oral history collection nationwide, gathering some 70,000 eyewitness accounts of Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War alongside its collection of wartime artifacts.", "url": "https://www.liberationwarmuseumbd.org/", "citation": "Liberation War Museum. Oral History Archive. Retrieved from https://www.liberationwarmuseumbd.org/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -3656,6 +3759,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2003, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1945, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Opened in 2003, this Nagasaki memorial hall records and preserves video testimony from hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), documenting firsthand accounts of the 1945 atomic bombing and postwar life, alongside a searchable photograph and record database.", "url": "https://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/en/", "citation": "Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims. Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors. Retrieved from https://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/en/.", @@ -3702,9 +3807,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1975, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1945, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Established in 1975 in Itoman, this museum has documented written and video testimonies of Battle of Okinawa survivors since its founding, honoring the memory of all who perished in the 1945 battle regardless of nationality or military status.", "url": "https://www.peace-museum.okinawa.jp/english/", "citation": "Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum. Battle of Okinawa Survivor Testimonies. Retrieved from https://www.peace-museum.okinawa.jp/english/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "hiroshima-peace-memorial-testimony", "nagasaki-peace-memorial-testimonies" @@ -3748,10 +3856,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 2011, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 2011, + "historical_period_end": 2011, "summary": "Launched in September 2011, this Tohoku University digital archive collects photographs, records, and firsthand testimonies and stories of the thoughts and memories of survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, with civic contributions welcomed.", "url": "https://search.shinrokuden.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/shinrokuden/", "citation": "International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. Michinoku Shinrokuden. Retrieved from https://search.shinrokuden.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/shinrokuden/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online; open to public contributions.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "hurricane-digital-memory-bank" ], @@ -3798,6 +3910,7 @@ "summary": "Opened in 1992 in the Ainu community of Nibutani, Hokkaido, this museum preserves and screens recordings of yukar (heroic epics) and other Ainu oral traditions passed down by word of mouth for generations.", "url": "https://www.town.biratori.hokkaido.jp/", "citation": "Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum, Biratori Town. Retrieved from https://www.town.biratori.hokkaido.jp/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -3886,6 +3999,7 @@ "summary": "Evolving from a Fijian dictionary project begun in 1974, this institute is custodian of iTaukei dialects and oral traditions across Fiji's fourteen provinces, running a Cultural Mapping Programme recording traditional knowledge village by village.", "url": "https://www.itaukeiaffairs.gov.fj/index.php/divisions/tilc", "citation": "iTaukei Affairs Board. iTaukei Institute of Language and Culture. Retrieved from https://www.itaukeiaffairs.gov.fj/index.php/divisions/tilc.", + "archive_type": "government agency", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -4072,6 +4186,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1952 and housed at USC Libraries since 2010, ONE Archives is the largest LGBTQ archive in the world, holding over two million items including thousands of oral history video and audio recordings.", "url": "https://one.usc.edu/", "citation": "ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Retrieved from https://one.usc.edu/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland", "australian-queer-archives", @@ -4169,6 +4284,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in San Francisco in 1985, the GLBT Historical Society holds an oral history collection begun in 1992 and later projects including the San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project chronicling AIDS-era direct-action organizing.", "url": "https://www.glbthistory.org/archives-about-visitor-info", "citation": "GLBT Historical Society. Archives. Retrieved from https://www.glbthistory.org/archives-about-visitor-info.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "lesbian-herstory-archives", "one-archives-usc" @@ -4261,6 +4377,8 @@ "url": "https://reuther.wayne.edu/memory", "citation": "Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://reuther.wayne.edu/memory.", "access_notes": "In-person/reading-room access; recordings requested via the Audiovisual Department.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "sohp-unc", "warwick-modern-records-centre" @@ -4308,6 +4426,7 @@ "summary": "Recorded between 1990 and 2006 and expanded with Ford Foundation funding, this project documents grassroots feminist organizing in the late 20th-century United States through five-to-six-hour interviews with labor, anti-racism, lesbian-rights, and reproductive-justice activists.", "url": "https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/research-collections/resources-lists/oral-histories/voices-of-feminism", "citation": "Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/research-collections/resources-lists/oral-histories/voices-of-feminism.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "jewish-womens-archive-weaving-words", "sparrow-india" @@ -4355,6 +4474,7 @@ "url": "https://jwa.org/oralhistories", "citation": "Jewish Women's Archive. Weaving Women's Words. Retrieved from https://jwa.org/oralhistories.", "access_notes": "Full audio and transcripts freely available via the Internet Archive.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "activist-women-s-voices", "sophia-smith-voices-of-feminism" @@ -4402,6 +4522,8 @@ "url": "https://www.culturalequity.org/", "citation": "Association for Cultural Equity. Alan Lomax Archive / Global Jukebox. Retrieved from https://www.culturalequity.org/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online via the Global Jukebox.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "berlin-phonogramm-archiv", "oral-history-of-american-music", @@ -4495,6 +4617,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1973, the Southern Oral History Program stewards more than 6,000 interviews documenting the U.S. South, from Civil Rights Movement activists and millworkers to educators and community leaders.", "url": "https://sohp.org/", "citation": "Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved from https://sohp.org/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "samuel-proctor-oral-history-program", "walter-reuther-library" @@ -4542,6 +4665,7 @@ "summary": "Based at SOAS since the early 2000s, ELAR is a digital repository of endangered-language documentation from around the world, with regional strongholds in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and South America, mostly freely accessible after registration.", "url": "https://www.elararchive.org/", "citation": "SOAS University of London. Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR). Retrieved from https://www.elararchive.org/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "ailla-archive", "endangered-archives-programme", @@ -4591,6 +4715,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 2000, AILLA is a digital repository preserving field notes, narratives, songs, and oratory recordings documenting Indigenous languages of Latin America, freely accessible online in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.", "url": "https://ailla.utexas.org/", "citation": "University of Texas at Austin. Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA). Retrieved from https://ailla.utexas.org/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "elar-soas", "paradisec-archive", @@ -4639,6 +4764,7 @@ "summary": "Launched in 2000 with VolkswagenFoundation funding, the DoBeS programme has funded around 50 endangered-language documentation projects worldwide, with annotated recordings stored at Nijmegen's Language Archive; select collections joined UNESCO's Memory of the World register in 2015.", "url": "https://tla.mpi.nl/", "citation": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The Language Archive / DoBeS. Retrieved from https://tla.mpi.nl/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "ailla-archive", "elar-soas" @@ -4686,6 +4812,7 @@ "summary": "Created by state legislation in 1972 alongside the Alaska Native Language Center, this Fairbanks archive holds over 15,000 documents and audio recordings dating to the 1940s documenting the twenty Native languages of Alaska.", "url": "https://www.uaf.edu/anla/", "citation": "University of Alaska Fairbanks. Michael E. Krauss Alaska Native Language Archive. Retrieved from https://www.uaf.edu/anla/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "project-jukebox-alaska" ], @@ -4734,6 +4861,8 @@ "url": "https://jukebox.uaf.edu/", "citation": "University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program. Project Jukebox. Retrieved from https://jukebox.uaf.edu/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "alaska-native-language-archive" ], @@ -4826,6 +4955,8 @@ "url": "https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/collections/archive", "citation": "National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Archive Center. Retrieved from https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/collections/archive.", "access_notes": "By appointment only, onsite research visits.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "activist-women-s-voices", "doris-duke-utah-oral-history", @@ -4875,6 +5006,7 @@ "summary": "Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the University of Utah's American West Center conducted interviews across six western U.S. states between 1966 and 1971, ultimately recording 1,458 interviews now being digitized with descendant communities.", "url": "https://lib.utah.edu/collections/multimedia/oralhistory.php", "citation": "University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://lib.utah.edu/collections/multimedia/oralhistory.php.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "nctr-residential-schools", "nmai-archive-center" @@ -4921,9 +5053,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1983, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1910, + "historical_period_end": 1940, "summary": "Formed in 1983 after Chinese poetry carved into detention-barracks walls was rediscovered, this foundation has curated over 250 oral histories from immigrants detained at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940 and their descendants.", "url": "https://www.aiisf.org/", "citation": "Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. Immigrant Voices Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://www.aiisf.org/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "bracero-history-archive", "saada-archive" @@ -4971,6 +5106,7 @@ "url": "https://www.saada.org/browse/type/oral-history", "citation": "South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.saada.org/browse/type/oral-history.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "angel-island-immigration-foundation", "black-cultural-archives-windrush", @@ -5015,10 +5151,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 2005, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1942, + "historical_period_end": 1964, "summary": "A partnership begun in late 2005 among the Smithsonian, George Mason University, Brown University, and UTEP's Institute of Oral History, this archive holds the largest collection of oral histories of braceros, Mexican guest workers in mid-20th-century U.S. agriculture.", "url": "https://braceroarchive.org/", "citation": "Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso. Bracero History Archive. Retrieved from https://braceroarchive.org/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "angel-island-immigration-foundation", "chinese-railroad-workers-stanford", @@ -5067,6 +5207,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1990 by Turkish 'guest worker' migrants as a self-organized archive, DOMiD now holds more than 150,000 objects and documents, including personal narratives and everyday objects, tracing the history of migration to postwar Germany.", "url": "https://domid.org/en/", "citation": "DOMiD e.V. Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany. Retrieved from https://domid.org/en/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "black-cultural-archives-windrush", "odysseo-generiques-oral-archives" @@ -5114,6 +5255,7 @@ "summary": "Since 2008, the University of Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection has recorded oral histories of Cuban exiles and dissidents, including the Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project and interviews with 2003 Black Spring political prisoners.", "url": "https://www.library.miami.edu/oral-histories.html", "citation": "University of Miami Libraries. Cuban Heritage Collection Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.library.miami.edu/oral-histories.html.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -5156,6 +5298,7 @@ "summary": "Launched in 2011 in UC Irvine's Department of Asian American Studies, Viet Stories documents the life stories of first-generation Vietnamese Americans in Southern California, recording memories of prewar Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and refugee resettlement.", "url": "https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/", "citation": "University of California, Irvine. Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "hmong-archives-stpaul" ], @@ -5247,6 +5390,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1965, this is the oldest research center devoted to immigrant and refugee life in North America; its Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories collection holds over 360 interviews recorded between 1967 and 2012.", "url": "https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/ihrca", "citation": "University of Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center Archives. Retrieved from https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/ihrca.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "moise-a-khayrallah-center-for-lebanese-diaspora" ], @@ -5290,9 +5434,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1979, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1933, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Begun as a New Haven community project in 1979 and brought to Yale in 1981, the Fortunoff Archive now holds over 4,500 videotaped interviews with Holocaust witnesses and survivors, including Sinti and Roma survivors, resisters, and liberators.", "url": "https://web.library.yale.edu/fortuneoff_1", "citation": "Yale University Library. Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Retrieved from https://web.library.yale.edu/fortuneoff_1.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "david-boder-voices-of-holocaust", "freedom-collection", @@ -5337,9 +5484,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 2000, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1939, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Growing from historian Stephen Ambrose's personal collecting, this New Orleans museum (opened in 2000) holds more than 9,000 personal accounts of World War II veterans, part of over 250,000 artifacts.", "url": "https://www.nationalww2museum.org/oral-history-resources", "citation": "The National WWII Museum. Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://www.nationalww2museum.org/oral-history-resources.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "iwm-sound-archive", "veterans-history-project" @@ -5381,10 +5531,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 2005, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 2001, + "historical_period_end": 2001, "summary": "The 9/11 Memorial & Museum's oral history collection, built since its 2005 founding, holds more than 2,500 recorded interviews with responders, survivors, and family members documenting the September 11, 2001 attacks and their aftermath.", "url": "https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories", "citation": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories.", "access_notes": "Selected audio freely streamable online.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "storycorps-national-archive" ], @@ -5429,10 +5583,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 2005, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 2005, + "historical_period_end": 2005, "summary": "Organized in 2005 with the University of New Orleans, this is the largest free public archive of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, with over 25,000 first-hand accounts, images, blog postings, and podcasts documenting the storms and their aftermath.", "url": "https://hurricanearchive.org/", "citation": "Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. Retrieved from https://hurricanearchive.org/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "michinoku-shinrokuden" ], @@ -5477,9 +5635,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1968, "decade_end": 2005, + "historical_period_start": 1915, + "historical_period_end": 1923, "summary": "Founded in 1979 by filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian, himself a genocide survivor, this Thousand Oaks foundation holds 400 interviews filmed between 1968 and 2005 with Armenian Genocide survivors, witnesses, and their descendants, now integrated into the USC Shoah Foundation's archive.", "url": "http://www.armenianfilm.org/", "citation": "Armenian Film Foundation. Genocide Testimony Collection. Retrieved from http://www.armenianfilm.org/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "freedom-collection", "usc-shoah-foundation-vha", @@ -5527,10 +5688,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 1946, "decade_end": 1946, + "historical_period_start": 1933, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "In 1946, psychologist David P. Boder traveled to displaced-persons camps across France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany with a wire recorder, capturing 130 interviews in nine languages that are considered the earliest known recorded oral histories of the Holocaust.", "url": "https://voices.library.iit.edu/", "citation": "Illinois Institute of Technology. Voices of the Holocaust. Retrieved from https://voices.library.iit.edu/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online, fully transcribed and translated.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "fortunoff-video-archive", "yad-vashem-testimonies" @@ -5578,6 +5743,7 @@ "url": "https://eap.bl.uk/", "citation": "British Library. Endangered Archives Programme. Retrieved from https://eap.bl.uk/.", "access_notes": "Digitized collections freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "elar-soas", "ibadan-african-studies-audiovisual" @@ -5625,6 +5791,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo in 1992, JANM preserves oral history interviews, diaries, and military memoirs documenting Japanese American history and wartime incarceration, in long partnership with the Densho Digital Repository.", "url": "https://www.janm.org/hnrc", "citation": "Japanese American National Museum. Hirasaki National Resource Center Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.janm.org/hnrc.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "densho-digital-repository", "fanhs-national-pinoy-archives" @@ -5672,6 +5839,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in Seattle in 1987 by FANHS, the National Pinoy Archives collects historical records of Filipino Americans, including oral history interviews recorded by local chapters such as the Sacramento-Delta chapter's project on farmworker communities.", "url": "https://www.fanhs-national.org/national-pinoy-archives", "citation": "Filipino American National Historical Society. National Pinoy Archives. Retrieved from https://www.fanhs-national.org/national-pinoy-archives.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "bracero-history-archive", "japanese-american-national-museum" @@ -5719,6 +5887,7 @@ "summary": "Housed at Gallaudet University, founded in 1864 as the world's only university designed for Deaf and hard-of-hearing students, this archive is the largest collection of materials on Deaf culture, history, and signed languages worldwide, including personal papers and recorded interviews.", "url": "https://gallaudet.edu/archives/", "citation": "Gallaudet University. Archives. Retrieved from https://gallaudet.edu/archives/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "roho-disability-rights" ], @@ -5764,6 +5933,7 @@ "summary": "Launched in 1996 by the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, this project recorded more than 100 interviews with leaders and participants of the Berkeley-born disability rights and independent living movement of the 1960s-70s and its national growth.", "url": "https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/disability-rights", "citation": "Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/disability-rights.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "bancroft-oral-history-center", "gallaudet-university-archives" @@ -5813,6 +5983,7 @@ "url": "https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/", "citation": "Stanford University. Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. Retrieved from https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/.", "access_notes": "Project concluded in 2020; site maintained as a public research archive.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "bracero-history-archive" ], @@ -5856,6 +6027,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2007, "decade_end": 2011, + "historical_period_start": 1975, + "historical_period_end": 1979, "summary": "Founded in 2007 by filmmaker Socheata Poeuv, Khmer Legacies recorded more than one hundred testimonies of Khmer Rouge survivors and former cadres between 2007 and 2011, sixty in Cambodia and forty among the Cambodian diaspora in the United States.", "url": "https://apa.nyu.edu/survey/2015/01/khmer-legacies-records/", "citation": "Khmer Legacies. Retrieved via NYU Asian/Pacific/American Archives Survey: https://apa.nyu.edu/survey/2015/01/khmer-legacies-records/.", @@ -5901,9 +6074,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1996, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1980, + "historical_period_end": 1992, "summary": "Founded in San Salvador in 1996 by former clandestine-radio broadcaster Carlos Henriquez Consalvi, MUPI holds El Salvador's most significant audiovisual archive of the 1980-1992 civil war, including the Radio Venceremos collection and oral history programming for younger generations.", "url": "https://www.elsalvadormemory.org/museo-de-la-palabra-es", "citation": "Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI). Retrieved from https://www.elsalvadormemory.org/museo-de-la-palabra-es.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "cnmh-colombia", "lugar-de-la-memoria-peru", @@ -5948,6 +6124,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2001, "decade_end": 2003, + "historical_period_start": 1980, + "historical_period_end": 2000, "summary": "Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission collected nearly 17,000 testimonies between 2001 and 2003 documenting the country's 1980-2000 internal armed conflict; these video and audio archives are now preserved and digitized at Lima's LUM documentation center.", "url": "https://lum.cultura.pe/content/centro-de-documentaci%C3%B3n-e-investigaci%C3%B3n", "citation": "Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM). Centro de Documentación e Investigación. Retrieved from https://lum.cultura.pe/content/centro-de-documentaci%C3%B3n-e-investigaci%C3%B3n.", @@ -5994,9 +6172,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 2010, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1973, + "historical_period_end": 1990, "summary": "Opened in Santiago in 2010, this museum's Oral Archive applies recorded-interview methodology to document personal and collective experiences of Chile's 1973-1990 military dictatorship, alongside its wider testimonial and documentary collections.", "url": "https://testimonios.museodelamemoria.cl/category/archivo-oral/", "citation": "Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos. Archivo Oral. Retrieved from https://testimonios.museodelamemoria.cl/category/archivo-oral/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "lugar-de-la-memoria-peru", "memoria-abierta-argentina" @@ -6041,6 +6222,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2002, "decade_end": 2005, + "historical_period_start": 1974, + "historical_period_end": 1999, "summary": "Timor-Leste's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation operated from 2002 to 2005, relying heavily on eyewitness testimony to document mass killing and displacement during the 1974-1999 Indonesian occupation, published in its final report Chega!.", "url": "https://chegareport.org/", "citation": "Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação (CAVR). Chega! Final Report. Retrieved from https://chegareport.org/.", @@ -6171,6 +6354,7 @@ "summary": "Kazakhstan's national audiovisual archive, founded in 1943 and based in Almaty, holds roughly 300,000 items of film, photo and sound-recording documents covering the country's Soviet-era and post-independence history.", "url": "http://kfdz.kz/", "citation": "Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Retrieved from http://kfdz.kz/.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6213,6 +6397,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1934 in Tashkent, this Academy of Sciences institute's Department of Folklore has organized decades of field expeditions recording Uzbek oral narratives and epic dostons, including a large 1969 expedition that documented epic narrators with the Alisher Navoi Museum of Literature and Karshi State Pedagogical Institute.", "url": "https://tai.academy.uz/en", "citation": "Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. Retrieved from https://tai.academy.uz/en.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "kyrgyzstan-manas-epic-trilogy" ], @@ -6257,6 +6442,7 @@ "summary": "The Manas, Semetey and Seytek trilogy is an oral epic recited by Kyrgyz manaschi performers and inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013. Its first large-scale transcription from oral performance, of the version narrated by Sagymbay Orozbakov, was carried out between 1922 and 1926 and is separately inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/kyrgyz-epic-trilogy-manas-semetey-seytek-00876", "citation": "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Kyrgyz epic trilogy: Manas, Semetey, Seytek. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/kyrgyz-epic-trilogy-manas-semetey-seytek-00876.", + "archive_type": "intergovernmental body", "related_ids": [ "uzbekistan-institute-language-literature-folklore" ], @@ -6301,6 +6487,7 @@ "summary": "The Rudaki Institute in Dushanbe, founded in 1932, holds one of the few surviving repositories of Tajik expressive culture: a folklore archive of notebooks, notecards and loose-leaf papers from Soviet-era and post-Soviet fieldwork expeditions, collected between 1923 and 2003 and written in Arabic, Latin and Cyrillic script.", "url": "https://izar.tj/en/department-folklore", "citation": "Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Department of Folklore. Retrieved from https://izar.tj/en/department-folklore.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6342,6 +6529,7 @@ "summary": "TRT's folk music archive comprises more than 6,500 field-collected recordings and notations of Turkish folk music, built on collecting expeditions beginning with the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory (1926-1929) and continued by the Ankara State Conservatory (1936-1952). Notation and recording holdings are made available through TRT's Nota Kutuphanesi (Notation Library) platform.", "url": "https://nota.trt.net.tr/Nota-Kutuphanesi", "citation": "Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT). Nota Kutuphanesi. Retrieved from https://nota.trt.net.tr/Nota-Kutuphanesi.", + "archive_type": "broadcaster", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6385,6 +6573,7 @@ "summary": "Since 2022, oral historian Halima Kazem has recorded more than 450 hours of interviews with Afghans who fled the country following the August 2021 Taliban takeover and the collapse of the Afghan government. The interviews are held in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives' digital repository.", "url": "https://digitalcollections2.hoover.org/collection/3249451/hart-hoover-afghanistan-oral-history-project", "citation": "Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University. HART: Hoover Afghanistan Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections2.hoover.org/collection/3249451/hart-hoover-afghanistan-oral-history-project.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6426,6 +6615,7 @@ "summary": "Between 2021 and 2022, an ALIPH Foundation-supported project recorded seventeen video interviews with individuals connected to Mosul's historic Jewish community, whose members had largely left Iraq by the mid-20th century, alongside digitization of private family archives and a community journal.", "url": "https://www.aliph-foundation.org/en/projects/intangible-heritage-collection-of-testimonies-on-the-jewish-community-of-mosul", "citation": "ALIPH Foundation. Intangible Heritage Collection of Testimonies on the Jewish Community of Mosul. Retrieved from https://www.aliph-foundation.org/en/projects/intangible-heritage-collection-of-testimonies-on-the-jewish-community-of-mosul.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6468,6 +6658,7 @@ "summary": "Established in 1995 by the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah) in Riyadh, this was the first specialized oral history center in Saudi Arabia. It has recorded thousands of audio and video interviews with storytellers, elders and narrators from across the Kingdom for use in historical research.", "url": "https://www.darah.org.sa/", "citation": "King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah). Retrieved from https://www.darah.org.sa/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6510,6 +6701,7 @@ "summary": "Since 2008, the UAE's National Library and Archives has recorded more than 800 audio-visual interviews with elderly Emirati narrators and eyewitnesses, documenting local dialects, folk songs and the lifestyles of earlier generations for the national archival record.", "url": "https://www.nla.ae/en/our-history/oral-history/overview/overview/", "citation": "National Library and Archives, United Arab Emirates. Oral History Overview. Retrieved from https://www.nla.ae/en/our-history/oral-history/overview/overview/.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6553,6 +6745,8 @@ "url": "https://oralhistory.auk.edu.kw", "citation": "American University of Kuwait Library. Oral History and Documentation Project. Retrieved from https://oralhistory.auk.edu.kw.", "access_notes": "Selected life-history interviews are published and browsable via the project's own online platform.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6594,6 +6788,7 @@ "summary": "The Institute of African and Asian Studies at the University of Khartoum holds the Folklore and Traditional Music Archives: more than 3,000 audio recordings and photographs of traditional Sudanese music and folklore gathered since 1963 through successive research initiatives. UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund has supported an action plan for digitizing and preserving the collection.", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/news/digitization-of-sudan-folklore-and-traditional-music-archives-00046", "citation": "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Digitization of Sudan folklore and traditional music archives. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/news/digitization-of-sudan-folklore-and-traditional-music-archives-00046.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6636,6 +6831,7 @@ "summary": "The Phonothèque Nationale de Tunisie, run by the Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes at the Ennejma Ezzahra palace near Tunis, holds Tunisia's historical phonographic heritage: 78/80/45/33rpm discs and field recordings dating back to 1907, organized into roughly thirty corpora and made accessible online through the Telemeta audio platform.", "url": "https://phonotheque.cmam.tn/", "access_notes": "Many collections are streamable online via the Telemeta-based Phonothèque platform; other material requires an in-person consultation request to the Center.", + "access": "partial online", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6678,6 +6874,8 @@ "summary": "BNARS, a department under Botswana's Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture, has collected oral history recordings since 1982 documenting the histories of Botswana's ethnic groups, villages and notable individuals, held alongside its documentary archival holdings in Gaborone.", "url": "https://www.gov.bw/culture/national-archives-research-enquiry", "access_notes": "In-person research-room access at the National Archives in Gaborone; researchers submit an enquiry form in advance.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "verification_note": "Source URL returned 404 in the 2026-09-21 link check; no replacement page found yet.", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", @@ -6721,6 +6919,7 @@ "decade_end": 2010, "summary": "The National Archives of Namibia's Archives of Anti-Colonial Resistance and the Liberation Struggle (AACRLS) programme, jointly funded by Namibia and Germany from 2001 to 2010, expanded the Archives' oral history holdings from a small base to roughly 1,500 recorded interviews with participants in Namibia's liberation struggle.", "url": "https://nan.gov.na/finding-aids", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6762,6 +6961,7 @@ "decade_end": 1984, "summary": "The Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, overseen by Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo since 1976, holds several hundred cassette-tape interviews and storytelling sessions recorded between 1979 and 1984 in Mozambique's northern provinces, documenting the war of independence, rural social life, rituals and local histories.", "url": "https://ahm.uem.mz/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6804,6 +7004,7 @@ "decade_end": 1979, "summary": "Angola's National Archive holds magnetic-tape recordings made during the 1960s and 1970s in the Benguela, Huambo, Bié and Luanda regions, including interviews with traditional leaders (sobas and sekulos), oral narratives, songs and elders' memories, some of it recovered after an earlier period of neglect and now cared for by the Archive's oral-archive department.", "url": "https://www.ana.gov.ao/", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6849,6 +7050,8 @@ "summary": "The Royal Museum for Central Africa's ethnomusicology department holds roughly 3,000 hours of sound recordings of traditional music from Central Africa, with a strong focus on the Congo and Rwanda, spanning 1910 Edison-cylinder recordings made by Armand Hutereau in Uele province through later tape, cassette and digital field recordings. A digitization project (DEKKMMA), run with the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Ghent University, is making the collection more widely accessible.", "url": "https://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/discover/collections_management/archives_and_documentation/archives", "access_notes": "Physically held in Tervuren, Belgium, as the historical repository for this Central African material; access is by request to the museum's ethnomusicology department.", + "access": "on request", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6891,6 +7094,7 @@ "url": "https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/home", "citation": "IASA. Phonogrammarchiv repatriates Madagascar's acoustic heritage. Retrieved from https://www.iasa-web.org/phonogrammarchiv-repatriates-madagascar%E2%80%99s-acoustic-heritage.", "access_notes": "A digital copy of the collection was repatriated to the University of Antananarivo in 2012; the original recordings remain held by the Phonogrammarchiv in Vienna.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -6972,6 +7176,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "CNRPAH, Algeria's national research center for prehistory, anthropology and history, has conducted ethnomusicological fieldwork since 1974 and built an audio collection of more than 300 hours of recordings; since 2007 it has coordinated Algeria's national inventory of intangible cultural heritage together with the country's regional cultural departments.", "url": "https://cnrpah.org/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7012,6 +7217,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Established in Tripoli in the late 1970s with methodological input from historian Jan Vansina, the Libyan Center for Archives and Historical Studies (formerly the Libyan Studies Center) built a large-scale oral history archive recording testimonies of participants in Libyan resistance to Italian colonial rule and survivors of Italy's concentration camps in Libya.", "url": "https://lcahs.ly/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7054,6 +7260,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Italy's national sound archive, founded in 1928 as the Discoteca di Stato, holds over 300,000 sound items ranging from Edison wax cylinders to digital recordings, including field recordings of Italian folk music, regional dialects, and oral traditions.", "url": "http://www.icbsa.it/", + "archive_type": "government agency", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7096,6 +7303,7 @@ "decade_end": 1970, "summary": "Founded in 1930 by Melpo and Octave Merlier, the Centre's Oral Tradition Archive gathered testimonies from more than 5,000 Greek Orthodox refugees from Asia Minor, covering roughly 1,475 investigated pre-1922 settlements and documenting daily life, the population exchange, and the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe.", "url": "https://www.kms.org.gr/en/archives/oral-tradition-archive/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7137,6 +7345,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Founded in 1934 and now part of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Institute runs a dedicated Sound Archive and Studio (established 1994) of Slovenian and South Slavic folk music, song, and dance recordings, with selected material published through its Etnomuza digital platform.", "url": "https://gni.zrc-sazu.si/en", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7178,6 +7387,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Successor to the folklore archive that composer-ethnomusicologist Constantin Brăiloiu founded in 1928 under the Society of Romanian Composers, the Institute preserves decades of field recordings of Romanian folk music and oral tradition gathered during Brăiloiu's and sociologist Dimitrie Gusti's village research campaigns and later fieldwork.", "url": "https://academiaromana.ro/ief/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7219,6 +7429,7 @@ "summary": "Established in 1924, the Archives of Latvian Folklore is the oldest folklore archive in the Baltic states, holding more than three million items including manuscripts, and audio and video recordings. Its centerpiece, the Cabinet of Dainas — Krišjānis Barons's card catalogue of over 200,000 Latvian folk songs — was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2001.", "url": "https://lulfmi.lv/en/archives-of-latvian-folklore", "citation": "UNESCO Memory of the World Register: 'Dainu skapis' (Cabinet of Dainas), inscribed 2001.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7259,6 +7470,7 @@ "decade_end": 1949, "summary": "Held at the Lithuanian Folklore Archives, this collection of early phonograph and later tape recordings of Lithuanian folk songs and music, made between 1908 and 1949, was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World national register in 2008 as documentary heritage of regional significance.", "url": "https://archyvas.llti.lt/en/lithuanian_folk_music_phonogram_collection/?id=55793", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7302,6 +7514,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Founded in 1909, Switzerland's oldest sound archive collects, documents, and publishes recordings of Swiss dialects across all four national languages; it is now housed within the University of Zurich's Institute of Computational Linguistics.", "url": "https://www.phonogrammarchiv.uzh.ch/de.html", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7383,6 +7596,8 @@ "summary": "The Institute's ethnology division holds a large tape-recorded folklore collection of ballads, folk songs, folktales, and descriptions of customs gathered across Iceland and Icelandic settlements in North America, with source material dating back to 1900.", "url": "https://arnastofnun.is/en/culture", "access_notes": "Selected recordings from the collection are accessible online via the ismus.is portal.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7423,6 +7638,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Tracing its research lineage to the Institute of Folklore founded by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1947, IEFSEM's Ethnographic Archive holds field-collected written records, photographs, and sound recordings of Bulgarian pre-industrial and traditional culture, with active digitization efforts underway.", "url": "https://iefem.bas.bg/en/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7463,6 +7679,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Founded in 1948, the Institute's Audio Library holds several thousand recordings of Croatian oral literature, folk music and dance, and narrations of custom, gathered from Croatian-speaking regions and Croatian communities living outside Croatia.", "url": "https://www.ief.hr/en/archive/collections/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7503,6 +7720,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Founded in 1948 as the first musicology institute in the former Yugoslavia, the Institute holds an extensive archive of ethnomusicological field notation and sound recordings of Serbian folk songs and dances, built up through decades of ongoing fieldwork.", "url": "https://music.sanu.ac.rs/en/archive/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7584,8 +7802,11 @@ ], "decade_start": 1969, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1939, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Belgium's federal research centre on 20th-century conflict, part of the State Archives since 2016, holds about 1,800 digitized interviews with former WWII resistance fighters, collaborators, and eyewitnesses, plus 1,200 interviews recorded between 1984 and 1998 on daily life under the German Occupation.", "url": "https://www.cegesoma.be/en/home", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7671,6 +7892,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "The Institute's Department of Ethnomusicology holds Slovakia's most extensive folk-music recording collection: over 3,500 tapes recorded by Institute staff from the second half of the 20th century onward, covering every region of Slovakia and Slovak diaspora communities abroad.", "url": "https://uhv.sav.sk/en/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7715,6 +7937,7 @@ "summary": "Mexico's national sound archive, established in 2008 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, holds and preserves historical and contemporary recordings including music, oral narratives, radio broadcasts and field recordings in Spanish and multiple Mexican indigenous languages, some dating to early wax-cylinder recordings.", "url": "https://www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx/", "citation": "Fonoteca Nacional de México. Retrieved from https://www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx/.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7804,6 +8027,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 1995, "decade_end": 1998, + "historical_period_start": 1960, + "historical_period_end": 1996, "summary": "Directed by Bishop Juan Gerardi and published as the 1998 report 'Guatemala: Nunca Más', REMHI gathered several thousand oral testimonies from survivors and witnesses of Guatemala's internal armed conflict; the original testimonies and case files are preserved at the archdiocese's Centro de la Memoria, which bears Gerardi's name after his 1998 assassination.", "url": "https://www.odhag.org.gt/cmmjg/", "access_notes": "The popularized version of the REMHI report is freely available online; original testimony archives are held for research access at the Centro de la Memoria.", @@ -7850,6 +8075,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1993 at the University of Costa Rica's School of Musical Arts, this archive rescues, preserves and digitizes Costa Rica's musical heritage, holding scores, photographs and sound recordings from more than 5,600 Costa Rican composers and musicians.", "url": "https://archivomusical.ucr.ac.cr/", "citation": "Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Artes Musicales. Archivo Histórico Musical. Retrieved from https://archivomusical.ucr.ac.cr/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7894,6 +8120,7 @@ "summary": "Cuba's national music museum in Havana, formed in 1998 from the merger of the earlier Museo y Archivo de la Música with the Odilio Urfé documentation center, holds a sound archive of wax cylinders, reel-to-reel tapes and thousands of discs documenting Cuban musical history, built partly from the Urfé family's private collection.", "url": "https://www.ministeriodecultura.gob.cu/es/ministerio-2/directorio-de-entidades/instituciones-nacionales/museo-nacional-de-la-musica", "citation": "Ministerio de Cultura de Cuba. Museo Nacional de la Música. Retrieved from https://www.ministeriodecultura.gob.cu/es/ministerio-2/directorio-de-entidades/instituciones-nacionales/museo-nacional-de-la-musica.", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -7941,6 +8168,8 @@ "url": "https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti", "citation": "Radio Haiti Archive, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Retrieved from https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online via the Duke Digital Repository.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8031,6 +8260,7 @@ "summary": "Run by the Literature program at Bolivia's Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, this archive holds roughly 700 hours of audio with more than 7,000 recorded oral narratives — memories, local histories, testimonies, myths and stories — gathered from highland, valley and Amazonian communities across Bolivia's nine departments, in Aymara, Quechua and other languages.", "url": "http://www.literatura.edu.bo/archivo_oral/index.php/archivo/sobre-el-archivo", "citation": "Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Carrera de Literatura. El Archivo Oral - Fondo Oral Sonoro. Retrieved from http://www.literatura.edu.bo/archivo_oral/index.php/archivo/sobre-el-archivo.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8075,6 +8305,7 @@ "summary": "Custodied in Caracas by the Centro de la Diversidad Cultural (successor to the OAS-founded ethnomusicology institute INIDEF, built around Isabel Aretz's field research), this collection of 152,344 images and 23,383 sound recordings of music, legends, games, poetry, prayers and traditional medicine practices from across Latin America and the Caribbean was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in November 2023.", "url": "http://www.diversidadcultural.gob.ve/", "citation": "UNESCO Memory of the World Programme, Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean (2023 inscriptions); Fundación Centro de la Diversidad Cultural. Retrieved from http://www.diversidadcultural.gob.ve/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8116,9 +8347,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 1973, "decade_end": 1985, + "historical_period_start": 1973, + "historical_period_end": 1985, "summary": "Created by Montevideo's Museum of Memory together with the Association of Friends of MUME, this oral archive holds recorded testimonies from former political prisoners of Uruguay's civil-military dictatorship, including accounts from clandestine detention and torture sites, plus testimonies from relatives of the disappeared, accessible to researchers by appointment.", "url": "https://mume.montevideo.gub.uy/archivo-oral-de-la-memoria", "access_notes": "In-person access by appointment; summaries of available testimonies are published on the museum's site.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8165,6 +8400,8 @@ "url": "https://ihncaexilio.org/el-acervo-ihnca/colecciones/", "citation": "El IHNCA en el Exilio. Colecciones. Retrieved from https://ihncaexilio.org/el-acervo-ihnca/colecciones/.", "access_notes": "Freely browsable online following the 2023 relaunch as 'El IHNCA en el Exilio' after the original archive at UCA Managua was confiscated by the Nicaraguan government.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8210,6 +8447,8 @@ "url": "https://www.vienamnhac.vn/data-bank.html", "citation": "Vietnamese Institute for Musicology. Data Bank. Retrieved from https://www.vienamnhac.vn/data-bank.html.", "access_notes": "Catalog entries and some audio browsable on the institute's website; full recordings typically require contacting the institute directly.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8253,6 +8492,7 @@ "summary": "A public anthropological research organization under Thailand's Ministry of Culture that systematically gathers and preserves ethnographic material from across the country, including audio field recordings, in a searchable online Anthropological Archives Database.", "url": "https://db.sac.or.th/anthroarchives/en/about-us.php", "access_notes": "Database searchable online in Thai and English; some holdings require an in-person research visit to Bangkok.", + "access": "partial online", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8297,6 +8537,7 @@ "url": "https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/news/2024/10/uva-returns-sound-recordings-and-film-footage-from-colonial-collection-to-indonesia.html", "citation": "University of Amsterdam. UvA returns sound recordings and film footage from colonial collection to Indonesia (October 2024).", "access_notes": "Digitized copies freely accessible in person at the NTT Regional Library, Kupang; original recordings remain held at the University of Amsterdam.", + "access": "on site only", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8339,6 +8580,7 @@ "url": "https://library.cpu.edu.ph/hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings-secured-in-unescos-memory-of-the-world-registry/", "citation": "Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific. Hinilawod Epic Chant Recordings (2024). https://www.mowcapunesco.org/register/hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings-2024/", "access_notes": "Digitized and curated by the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology; original tapes held at Central Philippine University, Iloilo City.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8379,6 +8621,8 @@ "summary": "Malaysia's national archives has run an oral history programme since 1963, one of the earliest in Southeast Asia, housed within its Documentation and Publication section; interviews recorded through the programme have been used extensively in local historical publications since the 1980s.", "url": "https://www.arkib.gov.my/en/", "access_notes": "Registration required for full access; short audio excerpts viewable online via the Archives' Online Finding Aid at ofa.arkib.gov.my.", + "access": "registration required", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8422,6 +8666,8 @@ "summary": "A government-funded cultural research institute established in 1974 whose Music Archive holds the world's largest collection of Papua New Guinean music recordings and documentation: more than 6,700 collections totalling roughly 12,000 hours of tape, cassette, and digital recordings, including early wax-cylinder and shellac recordings dating to 1898 repatriated from European archives.", "url": "https://www.ipngs.gov.pg/", "access_notes": "Access to the archive is by application to IPNGS in Port Moresby.", + "access": "on request", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8507,6 +8753,7 @@ "summary": "MicSem, a Catholic Church-founded research and public education organization based in Pohnpei since 1992, holds a digitized collection of over 20,000 tracks of Micronesian music, including recordings gathered from government radio stations across Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Yap, the Marshall Islands, and Palau dating from the 1950s onward, searchable through its own website.", "url": "https://micsem.org/music/music-listing/", "access_notes": "Music listings and audio streams are freely browsable on the MicSem website.", + "access": "open online", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8589,6 +8836,7 @@ "summary": "Nepal's principal Nepali-language library and archive, founded in 1955, holds an audio-visual collection of roughly 750 items including oral testimonies, an audio corpus of Nepali speech, transcribed radio interviews, and recorded voices of Nepali writers.", "url": "https://madanpuraskar.org/collection-development-2/", "access_notes": "Materials are held at the library's premises in Patan, Lalitpur; researchers should contact the library directly for access.", + "access": "on request", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01", @@ -8630,6 +8878,8 @@ "summary": "Sri Lanka's national library maintains a dedicated Folklore Collection documenting Sinhala and Tamil oral traditions, folk literature, and related documentary heritage as part of its national holdings.", "url": "http://www.natlib.lk/index.php/folklore-collection", "access_notes": "Located in Colombo; materials accessible on-site as part of the library's reference collection.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "verification_note": "Source URL returned 404 in the 2026-09-21 link check; site restructured. Scope (manuscripts vs. recordings) needs curator review.", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", @@ -8720,6 +8970,7 @@ "summary": "A community-created digital archive launched in 2015 to document experiences of police violence not captured in official narratives. The archive collects photographs and oral testimony from community members via the Omeka platform, grounded in archival activism and community healing from state violence.", "url": "https://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org", "citation": "A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland. Retrieved from https://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org.", + "archive_type": "community or independent project", "related_ids": [ "storycorps-national-archive", "usc-shoah-foundation-vha", @@ -8809,6 +9060,7 @@ "summary": "The ADST's Foreign Affairs Oral History program has recorded over 2,600 oral histories by American diplomats. The organization also produces and shares these oral histories and facilitates publication of books about diplomacy by diplomats and others.", "url": "https://adst.org", "citation": "Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Retrieved from https://adst.org.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -8900,6 +9152,7 @@ "summary": "The DRA is a non-profit foundation supported by ARD that preserves essential aspects of German broadcasting history through sound recordings. It was founded in 1952 as the German sound archive and maintains two locations in Frankfurt am Main and Potsdam-Babelsberg.", "url": "https://www.dra.de/", "citation": "German Broadcasting Archive. German Broadcasting Archive (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv; DRA). Retrieved from https://www.dra.de/.", + "archive_type": "broadcaster", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -8985,6 +9238,7 @@ "summary": "A research center at North Carolina State University that supports oral history collection and maintains a digital archive of material about the Lebanese diaspora in the US and worldwide. The center has produced documentary and museum exhibition work on Lebanese-American history in North Carolina.", "url": "https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/", "citation": "Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. Retrieved from https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "saada-archive", "immigration-history-research-center-umn", @@ -9034,6 +9288,7 @@ "summary": "The National Archives of the Cook Islands was established in 1974 to preserve government records, cultural materials, and oral traditions. It holds a collection of over 4,000 images of the Cook Islands from the 1950s from the Donald Stanley Marshall collection.", "url": "https://www.culture.gov.ck/category/national-archives/", "citation": "National Archives of the Cook Islands. Retrieved from https://www.culture.gov.ck/category/national-archives/.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -9077,6 +9332,7 @@ "summary": "The NSA preserves the history of smokejumping and aerial fire management through interviews, rosters, photographs, films, letters, reports and publications. It serves as a meeting area for people involved in wildland firefighting and supports preservation of national forests and grasslands.", "url": "https://smokejumpers.com/", "citation": "National Smokejumper Association. Retrieved from https://smokejumpers.com/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -9162,6 +9418,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2015, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 2015, + "historical_period_end": 2015, "summary": "A crowd-sourced digital archive preserving media created by people and organizations involved in or witnessing the 2015 Baltimore protests following Freddie Gray's death. As of 2018, the collection held over 3,000 documents including images and oral histories, with materials portraying diverse perspectives on the events.", "url": "https://baltimoreuprising2015.org/", "citation": "Preserve the Baltimore Uprising. Retrieved from https://baltimoreuprising2015.org/.", @@ -9299,9 +9557,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 2010, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1992, + "historical_period_end": 1995, "summary": "The War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo collects and presents the memories of children who lived through the Bosnian war, gathered initially through an online platform that received over 1,000 submissions from young adults. The museum displays these recollections through objects, video testimonies, and oral history excerpts.", "url": "https://warchildhood.org/", "citation": "War Childhood Museum. Retrieved from https://warchildhood.org/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -9483,6 +9744,7 @@ "summary": "The Swaziland Oral History Project is a research and archival initiative that collects, preserves, transcribes and translates oral histories, clan genealogies and testimonies of Swazi elders, with particular attention to precolonial history of the Swazi kingdom. Materials were developed through cooperation between Swazi archivists, elders and professional historians, and were also transferred to the Historical Papers Research Archive at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.", "url": "https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/metadata/SWOHP/index.html", "citation": "University of Cape Town Libraries (Emandulo digital collections). Swaziland Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/metadata/SWOHP/index.html.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -9572,6 +9834,7 @@ "summary": "Folktales and other oral narratives collected in Turkey from 1961 by Ahmet E. Uysal, Warren S. Walker and Barbara K. Walker and donated to Texas Tech University in 1980. The archive's site offers transcriptions and English translations of some 2,000 tales, audio recordings, and over forty hours of Turkish folk music.", "url": "https://www.aton.ttu.edu/", "citation": "Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University. Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative. Retrieved from https://www.aton.ttu.edu/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "verification_note": "End year of collecting not stated by the source; decade_end left open.", "provenance": "Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.", @@ -9658,6 +9921,7 @@ "summary": "Begun in 1982 by the Bethesda-based Foundation for Iranian Studies, the program recorded structured interviews with about 180 political, diplomatic, cultural and economic figures of Pahlavi-era Iran, both proponents and opponents of the state's decisions. Tapes and transcripts are kept by the foundation; copies of the English interviews are held in Columbia University's Oral History Archives.", "url": "https://fis-iran.org/oralhistory/", "citation": "Foundation for Iranian Studies. Oral History of Iran. Retrieved from https://fis-iran.org/oralhistory/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "columbia-oral-history-archives", "harvard-iranian-oral-history" @@ -9706,6 +9970,7 @@ "url": "https://oral.history.ufl.edu/", "citation": "University of Florida. Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Retrieved from https://oral.history.ufl.edu/.", "access_notes": "About 8,000 interviews freely accessible online through UF Digital Collections.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "sohp-unc" ], @@ -9753,6 +10018,8 @@ "url": "https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml/collecting/oral-history.html", "citation": "Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University. Oral History Archives at Columbia. Retrieved from https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml/collecting/oral-history.html.", "access_notes": "Open to all researchers at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "fis-oral-history-of-iran" ], @@ -9798,6 +10065,8 @@ "url": "https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center", "citation": "Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library. Retrieved from https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center.", "access_notes": "Most interviews available online.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "roho-disability-rights" ], @@ -9843,6 +10112,8 @@ "url": "https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project", "citation": "Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Black Women Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project.", "access_notes": "Transcripts and audio are fully digitized and available online through the library's research guide.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "verification_note": "Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.", "provenance": "Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.", @@ -9940,6 +10211,7 @@ "url": "https://voicesofoklahoma.com/", "citation": "Voices of Oklahoma, in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society. Voices of Oklahoma. Retrieved from https://voicesofoklahoma.com/.", "access_notes": "Interviews freely available online, with audio and transcripts.", + "access": "open online", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "verification_note": "Sources give 2009 or 2010 as the start year; languages inferred.", "provenance": "Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.", diff --git a/data/collections.json b/data/collections.json index 6e5b20b..471aa22 100644 --- a/data/collections.json +++ b/data/collections.json @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ "url": "https://www.loc.gov/vets/", "citation": "Library of Congress, American Folklife Center. Veterans History Project. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/vets/.", "access_notes": "Many interviews viewable online via the Library of Congress; the full collection is available by research visit.", + "access": "partial online", "related_ids": [ "iwm-sound-archive", "korean-war-legacy-foundation", @@ -86,10 +87,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 1996, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1942, + "historical_period_end": 1946, "summary": "Densho preserves and freely shares video oral history interviews with Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated during World War II, alongside primary-source documents and photographs from before, during, and after that period.", "url": "https://ddr.densho.org/", "citation": "Densho. Densho Digital Repository. Retrieved from https://ddr.densho.org/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "japanese-american-national-museum", "the-historymakers" @@ -125,6 +129,7 @@ "url": "https://sfi.usc.edu/vha", "citation": "USC Shoah Foundation. Visual History Archive. Retrieved from https://sfi.usc.edu/vha.", "access_notes": "Full testimonies require registration through partner institutions or educational access via IWitness; some clips are public.", + "access": "registration required", "related_ids": [ "a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland", "armenian-film-foundation", @@ -195,6 +200,7 @@ "summary": "The permanent home for the statements, documents, and video testimony gathered by Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission from Survivors of the residential school system.", "url": "https://nctr.ca/", "citation": "University of Manitoba. National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Retrieved from https://nctr.ca/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "doris-duke-utah-oral-history" ], @@ -223,6 +229,7 @@ "summary": "A collaborative virtual museum of life stories founded in Sao Paulo in 1991, holding tens of thousands of personal narratives documenting migration, work, and community memory across Brazil.", "url": "https://museudapessoa.org/", "citation": "Museu da Pessoa. Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the Person). Retrieved from https://museudapessoa.org/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "cpdoc-fgv-brazil" ], @@ -278,6 +285,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 1999, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1976, + "historical_period_end": 1983, "summary": "An alliance of Argentine human rights organizations whose oral archive gathers testimony from people affected by state terrorism during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship and the resistance to it.", "url": "https://memoriaabierta.org.ar/wp/archivo-oral/", "citation": "Memoria Abierta. Archivo Oral de Memoria Abierta. Retrieved from https://memoriaabierta.org.ar/wp/archivo-oral/.", @@ -342,6 +351,7 @@ "summary": "Digitized recordings from the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies Archives and partner collections, offering thousands of songs, stories, and oral history recorded across Scotland from the 1930s onward.", "url": "https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/", "citation": "School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh. Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o Riches. Retrieved from https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "association-cultural-equity-lomax", "duchas-national-folklore-collection", @@ -373,6 +383,7 @@ "summary": "One of Europe's largest folklore archives, held at University College Dublin and digitized via duchas.ie, including the 1930s Schools' Collection of oral tradition gathered by schoolchildren and thousands of hours of sound recordings.", "url": "https://www.duchas.ie/en", "citation": "University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection (Duchas). Retrieved from https://www.duchas.ie/en.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive", "tobar-an-dualchais" @@ -438,6 +449,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2010, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1947, + "historical_period_end": 1947, "summary": "A crowd-sourced oral history project, founded in Berkeley in 2010, that has recorded over 12,000 witness accounts of the 1947 Partition of British India from survivors across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the diaspora.", "url": "https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/", "citation": "The 1947 Partition Archive. The 1947 Partition Archive. Retrieved from https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/.", @@ -468,9 +481,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1986, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1945, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Video testimonies of hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) recorded by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum since 1986, documenting firsthand accounts of the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath.", "url": "https://hpmm-db.jp/testify_en/", "citation": "Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. A-bomb Survivor Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://hpmm-db.jp/testify_en/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "nagasaki-peace-memorial-testimonies", "okinawa-peace-memorial-museum" @@ -498,6 +514,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 1995, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1975, + "historical_period_end": 1979, "summary": "DC-Cam documents the history of the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) through survivor and perpetrator testimony, including an oral history project tied to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.", "url": "https://www.dccam.org/", "citation": "Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam). Documentation Center of Cambodia Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.dccam.org/.", @@ -530,6 +548,7 @@ "summary": "Based at the American University of Beirut, POHA holds over 1,000 hours of testimony from first-generation Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, documenting memories of pre-1948 Palestine and subsequent displacement.", "url": "https://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Pages/poha.aspx", "citation": "American University of Beirut, Issam Fares Institute. Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA). Retrieved from https://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Pages/poha.aspx.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "ips-narrating-palestine", "umam-documentation-research", @@ -561,6 +580,7 @@ "summary": "Australia's national collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage, including decades of oral history interviews and language recordings gathered in partnership with Indigenous communities.", "url": "https://aiatsis.gov.au/collection", "citation": "Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. AIATSIS Collection. Retrieved from https://aiatsis.gov.au/collection.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "nga-taonga-sound-vision", "paradisec-archive" @@ -619,6 +639,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 1988, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1948, + "historical_period_end": 1994, "summary": "An independent archive founded by anti-apartheid activists, SAHA holds oral history interviews and documents relating to the struggle against apartheid and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.", "url": "https://www.saha.org.za/collections/oral_history.htm", "citation": "South African History Archive. SAHA Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.saha.org.za/collections/oral_history.htm.", @@ -652,6 +674,7 @@ "summary": "The District Six Museum's Sound Archive collects recorded interviews with former residents forcibly removed from Cape Town's District Six under apartheid's Group Areas Act, preserving memories of the destroyed community.", "url": "https://www.districtsix.co.za/collections/", "citation": "District Six Museum. District Six Museum Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.districtsix.co.za/collections/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "saha-oral-history" ], @@ -679,10 +702,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 2010, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1994, + "historical_period_end": 1994, "summary": "A digital archive holding over 8,000 survivor and witness testimonies, Gacaca court records, and memorial documentation of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, built with the University of Texas Libraries.", "url": "https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/", "citation": "Aegis Trust / National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide. Genocide Archive of Rwanda. Retrieved from https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online with a searchable video player.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "dccam-oral-history", "khmer-legacies" @@ -717,6 +743,7 @@ "summary": "An African Union research center based in Niamey since 1968 (created with UNESCO support as the Regional Center for Oral Tradition), CELHTO collects, studies, and preserves oral traditions and languages from across Africa on audio, video, and written media.", "url": "https://www.celhto.org/", "citation": "Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale (African Union). CELHTO Oral Tradition Archive. Retrieved from https://www.celhto.org/.", + "archive_type": "intergovernmental body", "related_ids": [ "fondation-hampate-ba", "irsh-niamey-boubou-hama", @@ -750,6 +777,7 @@ "summary": "Niger's oldest research institution, IRSH grew out of a regional branch of IFAN and continues the documentation work begun by historian Boubou Hama, whose collection of oral sources and manuscripts helped found Niger's tradition of oral-history-based scholarship.", "url": "https://irsh-uam.com/", "citation": "Universite Abdou Moumouni de Niamey. Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines. Retrieved from https://irsh-uam.com/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "celhto-oral-tradition-archive" ], @@ -778,6 +806,7 @@ "summary": "Field recordings made by linguist Charles S. Bird together with Malian collaborators, capturing griot performances of the Epic of Sunjata, kora and donso ngoni music, and hunters' songs unavailable in any other archive.", "url": "https://libraries.indiana.edu/bird-mali", "citation": "Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University. Charles S. Bird Mali Collections. Retrieved from https://libraries.indiana.edu/bird-mali.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "fondation-hampate-ba", "sahel-sounds-field-recordings" @@ -837,6 +866,7 @@ "summary": "A UNESCO-listed oral literary corpus (the Odu Ifa) of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria: an enormous body of verses transmitted orally by babalawo priests and drawn upon in divination practice.", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ifa-divination-system-00146", "citation": "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba babalawo tradition. Ifa Divination System. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/ifa-divination-system-00146.", + "archive_type": "intergovernmental body", "related_ids": [ "gelede-oral-heritage", "sosso-bala-cultural-space" @@ -866,6 +896,7 @@ "summary": "A UNESCO-listed oral and performance tradition of the Yoruba-Nago communities spanning Benin, Nigeria, and Togo, combining masked dance with sung epic and satirical verse that honors women's role in social life.", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/oral-heritage-of-gelede-00002", "citation": "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage / Yoruba-Nago communities. Oral Heritage of Gelede. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/oral-heritage-of-gelede-00002.", + "archive_type": "intergovernmental body", "related_ids": [ "ifa-divination-system" ], @@ -897,6 +928,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in Dakar in 1938, IFAN holds a large sound archive of West African oral traditions, songs, and epics, including over 1,400 digitized cassette recordings and historic WWI-era recordings of Senegalese soldiers.", "url": "https://ifan.ucad.sn/", "citation": "Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop. IFAN Sound Archives. Retrieved from https://ifan.ucad.sn/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "nketia-archives-ghana", "sahel-sounds-field-recordings" @@ -931,6 +963,7 @@ "summary": "Named for ethnomusicologist J.H. Kwabena Nketia, this archive at the University of Ghana holds the largest and most systematic set of recordings by any African ethnomusicologist: over six decades of field recordings documenting music, oral tradition, and performance across Ghana.", "url": "https://ias.ug.edu.gh/content/jh-kwabena-nketia-archives", "citation": "Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. J.H. Kwabena Nketia Archives. Retrieved from https://ias.ug.edu.gh/content/jh-kwabena-nketia-archives.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "ifan-dakar-sound-archives" ], @@ -964,6 +997,7 @@ "url": "https://blog.sahelsounds.com/", "citation": "Sahel Sounds. Field Recordings from the Sahel. Retrieved from https://blog.sahelsounds.com/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online via blog and Bandcamp releases.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "bird-mali-collections", "celhto-oral-tradition-archive", @@ -998,6 +1032,7 @@ "url": "https://ui.edu.ng/content/institute-african-studies", "citation": "Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. African Studies Ibadan Audiovisual and Arabic Manuscripts Archive. Retrieved from https://ui.edu.ng/content/institute-african-studies.", "access_notes": "In-person access at the Institute; digitized portions being released via the Endangered Archives Programme.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "endangered-archives-programme" ], @@ -1029,6 +1064,8 @@ "url": "https://www.archives.gov.zw/", "citation": "National Archives of Zimbabwe. Oral History Programme. Retrieved from https://www.archives.gov.zw/.", "access_notes": "In-person/reading-room access; some liberation-history recordings referenced in public reporting.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -1057,6 +1094,7 @@ "summary": "Kenya's national archive, established by Act of Parliament in 1965, holds audio cassette recordings of oral histories and folk songs alongside colonial records, government files, and papers of prominent Kenyans.", "url": "https://www.archives.go.ke/homepage", "citation": "Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service. Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.archives.go.ke/homepage.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -1086,6 +1124,7 @@ "summary": "Established in 1963, the Institute holds the world's largest single collection of Ethiopian manuscripts alongside an Audiovisual Materials section with ethnomusicological field recordings documenting Ethiopia's oral and musical traditions.", "url": "https://aau.edu.et/institute/IES", "citation": "Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University. Audiovisual Archive. Retrieved from https://aau.edu.et/institute/IES.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -1113,6 +1152,8 @@ "url": "https://858.ma/", "citation": "Mosireen Collective. 858: An Archive of Resistance. Retrieved from https://858.ma/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online, indexed and searchable video.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "community or independent project", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -1168,6 +1209,8 @@ "url": "https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/amadou-hampate-ba", "citation": "Fondation Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Retrieved via UNESCO Memory of the World: https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/amadou-hampate-ba.", "access_notes": "In-person access in Abidjan; digitization and online access underway via UNESCO partnership.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "bird-mali-collections", "celhto-oral-tradition-archive" @@ -1197,6 +1240,7 @@ "summary": "A UNESCO-listed oral epic tradition of Mauritania's Moorish tribes, recited by griot (iggawin) families accompanied by lute, harp, and kettledrum, functioning as each tribe's sung and spoken oral history handed down through generations.", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/moorish-epic-t-heydinn-00524", "citation": "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Moorish Epic T'heydinn. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/moorish-epic-t-heydinn-00524.", + "archive_type": "intergovernmental body", "related_ids": [ "sosso-bala-cultural-space" ], @@ -1227,6 +1271,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1999 as an outreach project of Makerere University's law school, the Refugee Law Project documents testimony and advocates for transitional justice for communities affected by conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda.", "url": "https://www.refugeelawproject.org/", "citation": "Refugee Law Project, Makerere University. Retrieved from https://www.refugeelawproject.org/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -1250,10 +1295,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 2002, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1948, + "historical_period_end": 1948, "summary": "An Israeli NGO founded in 2002 that collects and publishes video testimonies from Palestinian refugees who witnessed the 1948 Nakba, alongside accounts from Israelis who took part in the 1948 war, to promote public accountability and the right of return.", "url": "https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/all/en", "citation": "Zochrot. Nakba Survivor Testimonies. Retrieved from https://www.zochrot.org/testimonies/all/en.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online, video testimonies with searchable database.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "ips-narrating-palestine", "palestinian-oral-history-archive" @@ -1283,6 +1331,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2004, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1975, + "historical_period_end": 1990, "summary": "A nonprofit founded in 2004 in Beirut's southern suburbs that collects documents, interviews, and narratives relating to the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, working to break cycles of blame through public engagement with contested memory.", "url": "https://www.umam-dr.org/", "citation": "UMAM Documentation & Research. Retrieved from https://www.umam-dr.org/.", @@ -1315,6 +1365,7 @@ "summary": "Launched in 2011, this project of the Beirut-based Institute for Palestine Studies digitizes and catalogs Palestinian oral history testimonies gathered by researchers across the region, from Ramallah and Haifa to Beirut, Damascus, and Amman.", "url": "https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/227700", "citation": "Institute for Palestine Studies. Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project. Retrieved from https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/227700.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "palestinian-oral-history-archive", "zochrot-nakba-testimonies" @@ -1374,10 +1425,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 1953, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1933, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Israel's official Holocaust remembrance authority, established by law in 1953, holds over 125,000 survivor testimonies (written, audio, and video) among more than 210 million pages of Holocaust documentation, with thousands available online.", "url": "https://www.yadvashem.org/archive/about/testimonies.html", "citation": "Yad Vashem. Survivor Testimonies Collection. Retrieved from https://www.yadvashem.org/archive/about/testimonies.html.", "access_notes": "Thousands of full testimonies freely viewable online; broader archive by researcher request.", + "access": "partial online", "related_ids": [ "armenian-film-foundation", "david-boder-voices-of-holocaust", @@ -1412,12 +1466,13 @@ "summary": "Launched at Harvard in 1981 by historian Habib Ladjevardi, this project recorded personal accounts of 134 political leaders and eyewitnesses to major events in Iranian history from the 1920s through the 1980s, now digitized and streamed publicly.", "url": "https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/projects/iohp", "citation": "Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Iranian Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/projects/iohp.", - "verification_status": "partially_verified", - "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", - "date_added": "2026-09-01", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "fis-oral-history-of-iran" - ] + ], + "verification_status": "partially_verified", + "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", + "date_added": "2026-09-01" }, { "id": "odysseo-generiques-oral-archives", @@ -1475,6 +1530,8 @@ "url": "https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound", "citation": "Imperial War Museums. Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound.", "access_notes": "Many recordings streamable online; full collection via research room visit.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "bl-national-life-stories", "fortunoff-video-archive", @@ -1503,10 +1560,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 2006, "decade_end": 2007, + "historical_period_start": 1968, + "historical_period_end": 1998, "summary": "Between 2006 and 2007, filmmakers recorded 161 filmed oral histories with former prisoners, officers, chaplains, and visitors inside Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison, capturing life-storytelling about Northern Ireland's Troubles.", "url": "https://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/", "citation": "Prisons Memory Archive. Retrieved from https://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/.", "access_notes": "Selected extracts online; full collection held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.", + "access": "partial online", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -1534,6 +1594,8 @@ "url": "https://www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/", "citation": "Association of Jewish Refugees. Refugee Voices Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://www.ajrrefugeevoices.org.uk/.", "access_notes": "Summaries and short clips online; full unedited interviews via institutional partners.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -1559,6 +1621,7 @@ "summary": "Established in 1973, the Modern Records Centre holds Britain's largest archive of trade union records and industrial relations history, including oral history recordings documenting the working-class labour movement.", "url": "https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/", "citation": "Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Retrieved from https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "bl-national-life-stories", "walter-reuther-library" @@ -1589,6 +1652,7 @@ "summary": "The National Library of Wales's Screen and Sound Archive preserves recordings of Welsh life dating from 1898 onward, including oral history interviews with Welsh migrants to North America and Patagonia, dialect recordings, and industrial-community testimony.", "url": "https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/about-our-collections/screen-sound-archive", "citation": "National Library of Wales. Screen and Sound Archive. Retrieved from https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/about-our-collections/screen-sound-archive.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -1612,6 +1676,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2008, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1970, + "historical_period_end": 1989, "summary": "Operating since 2008 in Gdansk, this archive collects documents, photographs, and personal testimony documenting Poland's Solidarity trade union movement and the wider anti-communist opposition in Eastern Europe from 1970 to 1989.", "url": "https://ecs.gda.pl/en/archive/", "citation": "European Solidarity Centre. Archive. Retrieved from https://ecs.gda.pl/en/archive/.", @@ -1646,6 +1712,7 @@ "summary": "Growing out of an underground publishing project launched in early 1982 during martial law, Poland's largest community archive now holds oral history recordings and biographical accounts documenting Nazi and Soviet occupation, deportation, and communist-era persecution.", "url": "https://karta.org.pl/", "citation": "KARTA Center Foundation. Retrieved from https://karta.org.pl/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "european-solidarity-centre-archive", "memory-of-nations-czech", @@ -1678,6 +1745,7 @@ "summary": "Founded by George Soros in 1995, this Budapest archive holds Cold War-era records including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty materials and oral history interviews with former Soviet dissidents and Communist Party officials.", "url": "https://archivum.org/", "citation": "Blinken OSA Archivum, Central European University. Retrieved from https://archivum.org/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "karta-center-poland", "memory-of-nations-czech" @@ -1704,6 +1772,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2011, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1992, + "historical_period_end": 1995, "summary": "Founded in Sarajevo in 2011, the Post-Conflict Research Center collects testimony of rescuers and survivors from the 1992-95 Bosnian War through its Ordinary Heroes peacebuilding programme, preserving oral testimonies, letters, and diaries.", "url": "https://p-crc.org/our-work/post-conflict-research/rescue-and-survivor-testemonials/ordinary-heroes-digital-archive/", "citation": "Post-Conflict Research Center. Ordinary Heroes Digital Archive. Retrieved from https://p-crc.org/our-work/post-conflict-research/rescue-and-survivor-testemonials/ordinary-heroes-digital-archive/.", @@ -1734,6 +1804,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2004, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1933, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Founded in 2004 by Father Patrick Desbois, this Paris-based organization has recorded over 7,000 eyewitness interviews across Central and Eastern Europe documenting mass shootings of Jews during the Holocaust, identifying more than 3,000 execution sites.", "url": "https://www.yahadinunum.org/", "citation": "Yahad-In Unum. Holocaust by Bullets Testimony Archive. Retrieved from https://www.yahadinunum.org/.", @@ -1768,6 +1840,7 @@ "summary": "One of the world's oldest sound archives, the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv preserves about 30,000 wax cylinder recordings made between 1893 and 1954 documenting music and spoken traditions from cultures around the globe, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.", "url": "https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/ethnologisches-museum/collection-research/research/sound-recordings-made-by-the-prussian-phonographic-commission/", "citation": "Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv. Retrieved from https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/ethnologisches-museum/collection-research/research/sound-recordings-made-by-the-prussian-phonographic-commission/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "association-cultural-equity-lomax", "austria-phonogrammarchiv", @@ -1801,6 +1874,8 @@ "url": "https://www.romarchive.eu/en/", "citation": "RomArchive. Retrieved from https://www.romarchive.eu/en/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "austria-phonogrammarchiv" ], @@ -1830,6 +1905,7 @@ "summary": "Consolidated in 1937 from folklore collections begun when the Society was founded in 1831, this archive holds around 4 million folklore items and 30,000 hours of sound and video, including the field poetry that formed the basis of the Finnish epic Kalevala.", "url": "https://www.finlit.fi/en/archives/", "citation": "Finnish Literature Society (SKS). Folklore Archives. Retrieved from https://www.finlit.fi/en/archives/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "duchas-national-folklore-collection", "estonian-folklore-archives", @@ -1862,6 +1938,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in Tartu in 1927, Estonia's central folklore archive holds roughly 1.5 million manuscript pages, 188,000 sound recordings, and 1,700 films documenting Estonian and Seto folk song, storytelling, and oral tradition.", "url": "https://www.kirmus.ee/en/about-us/departments/estonian-folklore-archives", "citation": "Estonian Literary Museum. Estonian Folklore Archives. Retrieved from https://www.kirmus.ee/en/about-us/departments/estonian-folklore-archives.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "finnish-literature-society-folklore-archive", "tobar-an-dualchais" @@ -1891,6 +1968,7 @@ "summary": "Established with UNESCO support in 2002-2003, this Tbilisi research centre studies and documents Georgian traditional vocal polyphony, an oral musical tradition inscribed on UNESCO's list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.", "url": "https://polyphony.ge/en/home-2/", "citation": "International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony, Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Retrieved from https://polyphony.ge/en/home-2/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -1919,6 +1997,8 @@ "url": "https://ahotsak.eus/english/", "citation": "Badihardugu Association. Ahotsak.eus Basque Oral Archive. Retrieved from https://ahotsak.eus/english/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online, catalogued by topic and town.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -1973,6 +2053,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1899, the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv is the world's oldest audiovisual research archive, holding field recordings of languages, dialects, and non-European music made chiefly by Austrian scholars, many inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.", "url": "https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/phonogrammarchiv/history-of-the-pha", "citation": "Austrian Academy of Sciences. Phonogrammarchiv. Retrieved from https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/phonogrammarchiv/history-of-the-pha.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "berlin-phonogramm-archiv", "romarchive" @@ -2003,6 +2084,7 @@ "summary": "Located at the Sami academic park Diehtosiida in Kautokeino, the Sami Archives has preserved material relating to the Sami people since 1988, and since 2005 operates as part of Norway's National Archival Services.", "url": "https://www.arkivverket.no/om-oss/samisk-arkiv", "citation": "National Archival Services of Norway. The Sami Archives. Retrieved from https://www.arkivverket.no/om-oss/samisk-arkiv.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -2032,6 +2114,7 @@ "url": "https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/about-us", "citation": "National Archives of Singapore. Oral History Centre. Retrieved from https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/about-us.", "access_notes": "Interviews searchable online; full recordings subject to interviewee consent.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -2089,6 +2172,7 @@ "summary": "Organized beginning in 1966, this division of India's Nehru Memorial Museum and Library recorded reminiscences of figures connected to Gandhi and Nehru and participants in India's freedom struggle, later expanding to economic and cultural history; 838 transcripts are held.", "url": "https://nehruportal.nic.in/oral-history", "citation": "Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Oral History Division. Retrieved from https://nehruportal.nic.in/oral-history.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "1947-partition-archive" ], @@ -2151,6 +2235,8 @@ "url": "https://www.hkmemory.hk/en/index.html", "citation": "Hong Kong Memory Project. Retrieved from https://www.hkmemory.hk/en/index.html.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -2176,6 +2262,7 @@ "summary": "Since founding a research center in 1999, historian Su Zhiliang and colleagues have recorded testimony from more than 100 Chinese survivors of Japan's wartime military sexual slavery system, opening a dedicated museum on campus in 2016.", "url": "https://www.shnu.edu.cn/", "citation": "Shanghai Normal University. Chinese \"Comfort Women\" History Museum and Research Center. Retrieved from https://www.shnu.edu.cn/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "house-of-sharing-korea" ], @@ -2201,9 +2288,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 2008, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1947, + "historical_period_end": 1954, "summary": "Established in 2008, this foundation manages Jeju's Peace Memorial Hall and an archive of over 14,600 victim and bereaved-family testimonies documenting the 1947-54 Jeju uprising and massacre, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2025.", "url": "http://jeju43peace.org/", "citation": "Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation. Jeju 4.3 Archives. Retrieved from http://jeju43peace.org/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -2258,10 +2348,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 2005, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1950, + "historical_period_end": 1953, "summary": "Growing from a 2005 encounter with Syracuse-area veterans, this foundation built the world's largest archive of Korean War oral histories, with over 1,500 recorded interviews of veterans from dozens of participating countries.", "url": "https://koreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/", "citation": "Korean War Legacy Foundation. Interview Archive. Retrieved from https://koreanwarlegacy.org/interactive-library/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online, searchable video library.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "veterans-history-project" ], @@ -2289,9 +2383,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 2011, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1949, + "historical_period_end": 1987, "summary": "A preparatory office founded in 2011 (formally established as a museum in 2018) has recorded oral history interviews with more than 500 political prisoners and their families, documenting Taiwan's 1949-1987 White Terror era of martial-law repression.", "url": "https://www.nhrm.gov.tw/w/nhrmEN/About", "citation": "National Human Rights Museum. White Terror Oral History Archive. Retrieved from https://www.nhrm.gov.tw/w/nhrmEN/About.", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -2315,9 +2412,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1999, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1955, + "historical_period_end": 1975, "summary": "Since 1999, this project of the world's largest nongovernmental Vietnam War archive has collected over 1,100 oral history interviews with American veterans, Vietnamese allies and opponents, protesters, and family members, available via its Virtual Vietnam Archive.", "url": "https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/", "citation": "The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University. Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "veterans-history-project" ], @@ -2344,9 +2444,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1996, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1971, + "historical_period_end": 1971, "summary": "Established in Dhaka in 1996, the Liberation War Museum has coordinated student-led oral history collection nationwide, gathering some 70,000 eyewitness accounts of Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War alongside its collection of wartime artifacts.", "url": "https://www.liberationwarmuseumbd.org/", "citation": "Liberation War Museum. Oral History Archive. Retrieved from https://www.liberationwarmuseumbd.org/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -2370,6 +2473,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2003, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1945, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Opened in 2003, this Nagasaki memorial hall records and preserves video testimony from hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), documenting firsthand accounts of the 1945 atomic bombing and postwar life, alongside a searchable photograph and record database.", "url": "https://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/en/", "citation": "Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims. Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors. Retrieved from https://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/en/.", @@ -2401,9 +2506,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1975, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1945, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Established in 1975 in Itoman, this museum has documented written and video testimonies of Battle of Okinawa survivors since its founding, honoring the memory of all who perished in the 1945 battle regardless of nationality or military status.", "url": "https://www.peace-museum.okinawa.jp/english/", "citation": "Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum. Battle of Okinawa Survivor Testimonies. Retrieved from https://www.peace-museum.okinawa.jp/english/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "hiroshima-peace-memorial-testimony", "nagasaki-peace-memorial-testimonies" @@ -2431,10 +2539,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 2011, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 2011, + "historical_period_end": 2011, "summary": "Launched in September 2011, this Tohoku University digital archive collects photographs, records, and firsthand testimonies and stories of the thoughts and memories of survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, with civic contributions welcomed.", "url": "https://search.shinrokuden.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/shinrokuden/", "citation": "International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University. Michinoku Shinrokuden. Retrieved from https://search.shinrokuden.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/shinrokuden/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online; open to public contributions.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "hurricane-digital-memory-bank" ], @@ -2464,6 +2576,7 @@ "summary": "Opened in 1992 in the Ainu community of Nibutani, Hokkaido, this museum preserves and screens recordings of yukar (heroic epics) and other Ainu oral traditions passed down by word of mouth for generations.", "url": "https://www.town.biratori.hokkaido.jp/", "citation": "Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum, Biratori Town. Retrieved from https://www.town.biratori.hokkaido.jp/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -2519,6 +2632,7 @@ "summary": "Evolving from a Fijian dictionary project begun in 1974, this institute is custodian of iTaukei dialects and oral traditions across Fiji's fourteen provinces, running a Cultural Mapping Programme recording traditional knowledge village by village.", "url": "https://www.itaukeiaffairs.gov.fj/index.php/divisions/tilc", "citation": "iTaukei Affairs Board. iTaukei Institute of Language and Culture. Retrieved from https://www.itaukeiaffairs.gov.fj/index.php/divisions/tilc.", + "archive_type": "government agency", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -2637,6 +2751,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1952 and housed at USC Libraries since 2010, ONE Archives is the largest LGBTQ archive in the world, holding over two million items including thousands of oral history video and audio recordings.", "url": "https://one.usc.edu/", "citation": "ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Retrieved from https://one.usc.edu/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "a-people-s-archive-of-police-violence-in-cleveland", "australian-queer-archives", @@ -2701,6 +2816,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in San Francisco in 1985, the GLBT Historical Society holds an oral history collection begun in 1992 and later projects including the San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project chronicling AIDS-era direct-action organizing.", "url": "https://www.glbthistory.org/archives-about-visitor-info", "citation": "GLBT Historical Society. Archives. Retrieved from https://www.glbthistory.org/archives-about-visitor-info.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "lesbian-herstory-archives", "one-archives-usc" @@ -2760,6 +2876,8 @@ "url": "https://reuther.wayne.edu/memory", "citation": "Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://reuther.wayne.edu/memory.", "access_notes": "In-person/reading-room access; recordings requested via the Audiovisual Department.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "sohp-unc", "warwick-modern-records-centre" @@ -2790,6 +2908,7 @@ "summary": "Recorded between 1990 and 2006 and expanded with Ford Foundation funding, this project documents grassroots feminist organizing in the late 20th-century United States through five-to-six-hour interviews with labor, anti-racism, lesbian-rights, and reproductive-justice activists.", "url": "https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/research-collections/resources-lists/oral-histories/voices-of-feminism", "citation": "Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://libraries.smith.edu/special-collections/research-collections/resources-lists/oral-histories/voices-of-feminism.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "jewish-womens-archive-weaving-words", "sparrow-india" @@ -2820,6 +2939,7 @@ "url": "https://jwa.org/oralhistories", "citation": "Jewish Women's Archive. Weaving Women's Words. Retrieved from https://jwa.org/oralhistories.", "access_notes": "Full audio and transcripts freely available via the Internet Archive.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "activist-women-s-voices", "sophia-smith-voices-of-feminism" @@ -2851,6 +2971,8 @@ "url": "https://www.culturalequity.org/", "citation": "Association for Cultural Equity. Alan Lomax Archive / Global Jukebox. Retrieved from https://www.culturalequity.org/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online via the Global Jukebox.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "berlin-phonogramm-archiv", "oral-history-of-american-music", @@ -2912,6 +3034,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1973, the Southern Oral History Program stewards more than 6,000 interviews documenting the U.S. South, from Civil Rights Movement activists and millworkers to educators and community leaders.", "url": "https://sohp.org/", "citation": "Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved from https://sohp.org/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "samuel-proctor-oral-history-program", "walter-reuther-library" @@ -2942,6 +3065,7 @@ "summary": "Based at SOAS since the early 2000s, ELAR is a digital repository of endangered-language documentation from around the world, with regional strongholds in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and South America, mostly freely accessible after registration.", "url": "https://www.elararchive.org/", "citation": "SOAS University of London. Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR). Retrieved from https://www.elararchive.org/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "ailla-archive", "endangered-archives-programme", @@ -2974,6 +3098,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 2000, AILLA is a digital repository preserving field notes, narratives, songs, and oratory recordings documenting Indigenous languages of Latin America, freely accessible online in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.", "url": "https://ailla.utexas.org/", "citation": "University of Texas at Austin. Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA). Retrieved from https://ailla.utexas.org/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "elar-soas", "paradisec-archive", @@ -3005,6 +3130,7 @@ "summary": "Launched in 2000 with VolkswagenFoundation funding, the DoBeS programme has funded around 50 endangered-language documentation projects worldwide, with annotated recordings stored at Nijmegen's Language Archive; select collections joined UNESCO's Memory of the World register in 2015.", "url": "https://tla.mpi.nl/", "citation": "Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The Language Archive / DoBeS. Retrieved from https://tla.mpi.nl/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "ailla-archive", "elar-soas" @@ -3035,6 +3161,7 @@ "summary": "Created by state legislation in 1972 alongside the Alaska Native Language Center, this Fairbanks archive holds over 15,000 documents and audio recordings dating to the 1940s documenting the twenty Native languages of Alaska.", "url": "https://www.uaf.edu/anla/", "citation": "University of Alaska Fairbanks. Michael E. Krauss Alaska Native Language Archive. Retrieved from https://www.uaf.edu/anla/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "project-jukebox-alaska" ], @@ -3066,6 +3193,8 @@ "url": "https://jukebox.uaf.edu/", "citation": "University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program. Project Jukebox. Retrieved from https://jukebox.uaf.edu/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "alaska-native-language-archive" ], @@ -3124,6 +3253,8 @@ "url": "https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/collections/archive", "citation": "National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Archive Center. Retrieved from https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/collections/archive.", "access_notes": "By appointment only, onsite research visits.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "activist-women-s-voices", "doris-duke-utah-oral-history", @@ -3156,6 +3287,7 @@ "summary": "Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the University of Utah's American West Center conducted interviews across six western U.S. states between 1966 and 1971, ultimately recording 1,458 interviews now being digitized with descendant communities.", "url": "https://lib.utah.edu/collections/multimedia/oralhistory.php", "citation": "University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library. Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://lib.utah.edu/collections/multimedia/oralhistory.php.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "nctr-residential-schools", "nmai-archive-center" @@ -3185,9 +3317,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1983, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1910, + "historical_period_end": 1940, "summary": "Formed in 1983 after Chinese poetry carved into detention-barracks walls was rediscovered, this foundation has curated over 250 oral histories from immigrants detained at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940 and their descendants.", "url": "https://www.aiisf.org/", "citation": "Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. Immigrant Voices Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://www.aiisf.org/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "bracero-history-archive", "saada-archive" @@ -3220,6 +3355,7 @@ "url": "https://www.saada.org/browse/type/oral-history", "citation": "South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). Oral History Collections. Retrieved from https://www.saada.org/browse/type/oral-history.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "angel-island-immigration-foundation", "black-cultural-archives-windrush", @@ -3248,10 +3384,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 2005, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1942, + "historical_period_end": 1964, "summary": "A partnership begun in late 2005 among the Smithsonian, George Mason University, Brown University, and UTEP's Institute of Oral History, this archive holds the largest collection of oral histories of braceros, Mexican guest workers in mid-20th-century U.S. agriculture.", "url": "https://braceroarchive.org/", "citation": "Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso. Bracero History Archive. Retrieved from https://braceroarchive.org/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "angel-island-immigration-foundation", "chinese-railroad-workers-stanford", @@ -3283,6 +3423,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1990 by Turkish 'guest worker' migrants as a self-organized archive, DOMiD now holds more than 150,000 objects and documents, including personal narratives and everyday objects, tracing the history of migration to postwar Germany.", "url": "https://domid.org/en/", "citation": "DOMiD e.V. Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany. Retrieved from https://domid.org/en/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "black-cultural-archives-windrush", "odysseo-generiques-oral-archives" @@ -3313,6 +3454,7 @@ "summary": "Since 2008, the University of Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection has recorded oral histories of Cuban exiles and dissidents, including the Luis J. Botifoll Oral History Project and interviews with 2003 Black Spring political prisoners.", "url": "https://www.library.miami.edu/oral-histories.html", "citation": "University of Miami Libraries. Cuban Heritage Collection Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.library.miami.edu/oral-histories.html.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -3339,6 +3481,7 @@ "summary": "Launched in 2011 in UC Irvine's Department of Asian American Studies, Viet Stories documents the life stories of first-generation Vietnamese Americans in Southern California, recording memories of prewar Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and refugee resettlement.", "url": "https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/", "citation": "University of California, Irvine. Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "hmong-archives-stpaul" ], @@ -3398,6 +3541,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1965, this is the oldest research center devoted to immigrant and refugee life in North America; its Minnesota Immigrant Oral Histories collection holds over 360 interviews recorded between 1967 and 2012.", "url": "https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/ihrca", "citation": "University of Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center Archives. Retrieved from https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/special/ihrca.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "moise-a-khayrallah-center-for-lebanese-diaspora" ], @@ -3425,9 +3569,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1979, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1933, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Begun as a New Haven community project in 1979 and brought to Yale in 1981, the Fortunoff Archive now holds over 4,500 videotaped interviews with Holocaust witnesses and survivors, including Sinti and Roma survivors, resisters, and liberators.", "url": "https://web.library.yale.edu/fortuneoff_1", "citation": "Yale University Library. Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Retrieved from https://web.library.yale.edu/fortuneoff_1.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "david-boder-voices-of-holocaust", "freedom-collection", @@ -3456,9 +3603,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 2000, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1939, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Growing from historian Stephen Ambrose's personal collecting, this New Orleans museum (opened in 2000) holds more than 9,000 personal accounts of World War II veterans, part of over 250,000 artifacts.", "url": "https://www.nationalww2museum.org/oral-history-resources", "citation": "The National WWII Museum. Oral History Collection. Retrieved from https://www.nationalww2museum.org/oral-history-resources.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "iwm-sound-archive", "veterans-history-project" @@ -3485,10 +3635,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 2005, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 2001, + "historical_period_end": 2001, "summary": "The 9/11 Memorial & Museum's oral history collection, built since its 2005 founding, holds more than 2,500 recorded interviews with responders, survivors, and family members documenting the September 11, 2001 attacks and their aftermath.", "url": "https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories", "citation": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories.", "access_notes": "Selected audio freely streamable online.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "storycorps-national-archive" ], @@ -3516,10 +3670,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 2005, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 2005, + "historical_period_end": 2005, "summary": "Organized in 2005 with the University of New Orleans, this is the largest free public archive of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, with over 25,000 first-hand accounts, images, blog postings, and podcasts documenting the storms and their aftermath.", "url": "https://hurricanearchive.org/", "citation": "Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. Retrieved from https://hurricanearchive.org/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "michinoku-shinrokuden" ], @@ -3548,9 +3706,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1968, "decade_end": 2005, + "historical_period_start": 1915, + "historical_period_end": 1923, "summary": "Founded in 1979 by filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian, himself a genocide survivor, this Thousand Oaks foundation holds 400 interviews filmed between 1968 and 2005 with Armenian Genocide survivors, witnesses, and their descendants, now integrated into the USC Shoah Foundation's archive.", "url": "http://www.armenianfilm.org/", "citation": "Armenian Film Foundation. Genocide Testimony Collection. Retrieved from http://www.armenianfilm.org/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "freedom-collection", "usc-shoah-foundation-vha", @@ -3582,10 +3743,14 @@ ], "decade_start": 1946, "decade_end": 1946, + "historical_period_start": 1933, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "In 1946, psychologist David P. Boder traveled to displaced-persons camps across France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany with a wire recorder, capturing 130 interviews in nine languages that are considered the earliest known recorded oral histories of the Holocaust.", "url": "https://voices.library.iit.edu/", "citation": "Illinois Institute of Technology. Voices of the Holocaust. Retrieved from https://voices.library.iit.edu/.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online, fully transcribed and translated.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "fortunoff-video-archive", "yad-vashem-testimonies" @@ -3617,6 +3782,7 @@ "url": "https://eap.bl.uk/", "citation": "British Library. Endangered Archives Programme. Retrieved from https://eap.bl.uk/.", "access_notes": "Digitized collections freely accessible online.", + "access": "open online", "related_ids": [ "elar-soas", "ibadan-african-studies-audiovisual" @@ -3647,6 +3813,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo in 1992, JANM preserves oral history interviews, diaries, and military memoirs documenting Japanese American history and wartime incarceration, in long partnership with the Densho Digital Repository.", "url": "https://www.janm.org/hnrc", "citation": "Japanese American National Museum. Hirasaki National Resource Center Oral Histories. Retrieved from https://www.janm.org/hnrc.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "densho-digital-repository", "fanhs-national-pinoy-archives" @@ -3678,6 +3845,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in Seattle in 1987 by FANHS, the National Pinoy Archives collects historical records of Filipino Americans, including oral history interviews recorded by local chapters such as the Sacramento-Delta chapter's project on farmworker communities.", "url": "https://www.fanhs-national.org/national-pinoy-archives", "citation": "Filipino American National Historical Society. National Pinoy Archives. Retrieved from https://www.fanhs-national.org/national-pinoy-archives.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "bracero-history-archive", "japanese-american-national-museum" @@ -3708,6 +3876,7 @@ "summary": "Housed at Gallaudet University, founded in 1864 as the world's only university designed for Deaf and hard-of-hearing students, this archive is the largest collection of materials on Deaf culture, history, and signed languages worldwide, including personal papers and recorded interviews.", "url": "https://gallaudet.edu/archives/", "citation": "Gallaudet University. Archives. Retrieved from https://gallaudet.edu/archives/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "roho-disability-rights" ], @@ -3736,6 +3905,7 @@ "summary": "Launched in 1996 by the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, this project recorded more than 100 interviews with leaders and participants of the Berkeley-born disability rights and independent living movement of the 1960s-70s and its national growth.", "url": "https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/disability-rights", "citation": "Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/disability-rights.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "bancroft-oral-history-center", "gallaudet-university-archives" @@ -3768,6 +3938,7 @@ "url": "https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/", "citation": "Stanford University. Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. Retrieved from https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/.", "access_notes": "Project concluded in 2020; site maintained as a public research archive.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "bracero-history-archive" ], @@ -3794,6 +3965,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2007, "decade_end": 2011, + "historical_period_start": 1975, + "historical_period_end": 1979, "summary": "Founded in 2007 by filmmaker Socheata Poeuv, Khmer Legacies recorded more than one hundred testimonies of Khmer Rouge survivors and former cadres between 2007 and 2011, sixty in Cambodia and forty among the Cambodian diaspora in the United States.", "url": "https://apa.nyu.edu/survey/2015/01/khmer-legacies-records/", "citation": "Khmer Legacies. Retrieved via NYU Asian/Pacific/American Archives Survey: https://apa.nyu.edu/survey/2015/01/khmer-legacies-records/.", @@ -3823,9 +3996,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 1996, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1980, + "historical_period_end": 1992, "summary": "Founded in San Salvador in 1996 by former clandestine-radio broadcaster Carlos Henriquez Consalvi, MUPI holds El Salvador's most significant audiovisual archive of the 1980-1992 civil war, including the Radio Venceremos collection and oral history programming for younger generations.", "url": "https://www.elsalvadormemory.org/museo-de-la-palabra-es", "citation": "Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI). Retrieved from https://www.elsalvadormemory.org/museo-de-la-palabra-es.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "cnmh-colombia", "lugar-de-la-memoria-peru", @@ -3854,6 +4030,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2001, "decade_end": 2003, + "historical_period_start": 1980, + "historical_period_end": 2000, "summary": "Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission collected nearly 17,000 testimonies between 2001 and 2003 documenting the country's 1980-2000 internal armed conflict; these video and audio archives are now preserved and digitized at Lima's LUM documentation center.", "url": "https://lum.cultura.pe/content/centro-de-documentaci%C3%B3n-e-investigaci%C3%B3n", "citation": "Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM). Centro de Documentación e Investigación. Retrieved from https://lum.cultura.pe/content/centro-de-documentaci%C3%B3n-e-investigaci%C3%B3n.", @@ -3884,9 +4062,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 2010, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1973, + "historical_period_end": 1990, "summary": "Opened in Santiago in 2010, this museum's Oral Archive applies recorded-interview methodology to document personal and collective experiences of Chile's 1973-1990 military dictatorship, alongside its wider testimonial and documentary collections.", "url": "https://testimonios.museodelamemoria.cl/category/archivo-oral/", "citation": "Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos. Archivo Oral. Retrieved from https://testimonios.museodelamemoria.cl/category/archivo-oral/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [ "lugar-de-la-memoria-peru", "memoria-abierta-argentina" @@ -3915,6 +4096,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2002, "decade_end": 2005, + "historical_period_start": 1974, + "historical_period_end": 1999, "summary": "Timor-Leste's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation operated from 2002 to 2005, relying heavily on eyewitness testimony to document mass killing and displacement during the 1974-1999 Indonesian occupation, published in its final report Chega!.", "url": "https://chegareport.org/", "citation": "Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliação (CAVR). Chega! Final Report. Retrieved from https://chegareport.org/.", @@ -3997,6 +4180,7 @@ "summary": "Kazakhstan's national audiovisual archive, founded in 1943 and based in Almaty, holds roughly 300,000 items of film, photo and sound-recording documents covering the country's Soviet-era and post-independence history.", "url": "http://kfdz.kz/", "citation": "Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents and Sound Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Retrieved from http://kfdz.kz/.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4023,6 +4207,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1934 in Tashkent, this Academy of Sciences institute's Department of Folklore has organized decades of field expeditions recording Uzbek oral narratives and epic dostons, including a large 1969 expedition that documented epic narrators with the Alisher Navoi Museum of Literature and Karshi State Pedagogical Institute.", "url": "https://tai.academy.uz/en", "citation": "Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. Retrieved from https://tai.academy.uz/en.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "kyrgyzstan-manas-epic-trilogy" ], @@ -4051,6 +4236,7 @@ "summary": "The Manas, Semetey and Seytek trilogy is an oral epic recited by Kyrgyz manaschi performers and inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013. Its first large-scale transcription from oral performance, of the version narrated by Sagymbay Orozbakov, was carried out between 1922 and 1926 and is separately inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/kyrgyz-epic-trilogy-manas-semetey-seytek-00876", "citation": "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Kyrgyz epic trilogy: Manas, Semetey, Seytek. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/kyrgyz-epic-trilogy-manas-semetey-seytek-00876.", + "archive_type": "intergovernmental body", "related_ids": [ "uzbekistan-institute-language-literature-folklore" ], @@ -4079,6 +4265,7 @@ "summary": "The Rudaki Institute in Dushanbe, founded in 1932, holds one of the few surviving repositories of Tajik expressive culture: a folklore archive of notebooks, notecards and loose-leaf papers from Soviet-era and post-Soviet fieldwork expeditions, collected between 1923 and 2003 and written in Arabic, Latin and Cyrillic script.", "url": "https://izar.tj/en/department-folklore", "citation": "Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. Department of Folklore. Retrieved from https://izar.tj/en/department-folklore.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4104,6 +4291,7 @@ "summary": "TRT's folk music archive comprises more than 6,500 field-collected recordings and notations of Turkish folk music, built on collecting expeditions beginning with the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory (1926-1929) and continued by the Ankara State Conservatory (1936-1952). Notation and recording holdings are made available through TRT's Nota Kutuphanesi (Notation Library) platform.", "url": "https://nota.trt.net.tr/Nota-Kutuphanesi", "citation": "Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT). Nota Kutuphanesi. Retrieved from https://nota.trt.net.tr/Nota-Kutuphanesi.", + "archive_type": "broadcaster", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4131,6 +4319,7 @@ "summary": "Since 2022, oral historian Halima Kazem has recorded more than 450 hours of interviews with Afghans who fled the country following the August 2021 Taliban takeover and the collapse of the Afghan government. The interviews are held in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives' digital repository.", "url": "https://digitalcollections2.hoover.org/collection/3249451/hart-hoover-afghanistan-oral-history-project", "citation": "Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University. HART: Hoover Afghanistan Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections2.hoover.org/collection/3249451/hart-hoover-afghanistan-oral-history-project.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4156,6 +4345,7 @@ "summary": "Between 2021 and 2022, an ALIPH Foundation-supported project recorded seventeen video interviews with individuals connected to Mosul's historic Jewish community, whose members had largely left Iraq by the mid-20th century, alongside digitization of private family archives and a community journal.", "url": "https://www.aliph-foundation.org/en/projects/intangible-heritage-collection-of-testimonies-on-the-jewish-community-of-mosul", "citation": "ALIPH Foundation. Intangible Heritage Collection of Testimonies on the Jewish Community of Mosul. Retrieved from https://www.aliph-foundation.org/en/projects/intangible-heritage-collection-of-testimonies-on-the-jewish-community-of-mosul.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4181,6 +4371,7 @@ "summary": "Established in 1995 by the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah) in Riyadh, this was the first specialized oral history center in Saudi Arabia. It has recorded thousands of audio and video interviews with storytellers, elders and narrators from across the Kingdom for use in historical research.", "url": "https://www.darah.org.sa/", "citation": "King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah). Retrieved from https://www.darah.org.sa/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4206,6 +4397,7 @@ "summary": "Since 2008, the UAE's National Library and Archives has recorded more than 800 audio-visual interviews with elderly Emirati narrators and eyewitnesses, documenting local dialects, folk songs and the lifestyles of earlier generations for the national archival record.", "url": "https://www.nla.ae/en/our-history/oral-history/overview/overview/", "citation": "National Library and Archives, United Arab Emirates. Oral History Overview. Retrieved from https://www.nla.ae/en/our-history/oral-history/overview/overview/.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4233,6 +4425,8 @@ "url": "https://oralhistory.auk.edu.kw", "citation": "American University of Kuwait Library. Oral History and Documentation Project. Retrieved from https://oralhistory.auk.edu.kw.", "access_notes": "Selected life-history interviews are published and browsable via the project's own online platform.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4258,6 +4452,7 @@ "summary": "The Institute of African and Asian Studies at the University of Khartoum holds the Folklore and Traditional Music Archives: more than 3,000 audio recordings and photographs of traditional Sudanese music and folklore gathered since 1963 through successive research initiatives. UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund has supported an action plan for digitizing and preserving the collection.", "url": "https://ich.unesco.org/en/news/digitization-of-sudan-folklore-and-traditional-music-archives-00046", "citation": "UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Digitization of Sudan folklore and traditional music archives. Retrieved from https://ich.unesco.org/en/news/digitization-of-sudan-folklore-and-traditional-music-archives-00046.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4284,6 +4479,7 @@ "summary": "The Phonothèque Nationale de Tunisie, run by the Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes at the Ennejma Ezzahra palace near Tunis, holds Tunisia's historical phonographic heritage: 78/80/45/33rpm discs and field recordings dating back to 1907, organized into roughly thirty corpora and made accessible online through the Telemeta audio platform.", "url": "https://phonotheque.cmam.tn/", "access_notes": "Many collections are streamable online via the Telemeta-based Phonothèque platform; other material requires an in-person consultation request to the Center.", + "access": "partial online", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4310,6 +4506,8 @@ "summary": "BNARS, a department under Botswana's Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture, has collected oral history recordings since 1982 documenting the histories of Botswana's ethnic groups, villages and notable individuals, held alongside its documentary archival holdings in Gaborone.", "url": "https://www.gov.bw/culture/national-archives-research-enquiry", "access_notes": "In-person research-room access at the National Archives in Gaborone; researchers submit an enquiry form in advance.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "verification_note": "Source URL returned 404 in the 2026-09-21 link check; no replacement page found yet.", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", @@ -4336,6 +4534,7 @@ "decade_end": 2010, "summary": "The National Archives of Namibia's Archives of Anti-Colonial Resistance and the Liberation Struggle (AACRLS) programme, jointly funded by Namibia and Germany from 2001 to 2010, expanded the Archives' oral history holdings from a small base to roughly 1,500 recorded interviews with participants in Namibia's liberation struggle.", "url": "https://nan.gov.na/finding-aids", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4360,6 +4559,7 @@ "decade_end": 1984, "summary": "The Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, overseen by Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo since 1976, holds several hundred cassette-tape interviews and storytelling sessions recorded between 1979 and 1984 in Mozambique's northern provinces, documenting the war of independence, rural social life, rituals and local histories.", "url": "https://ahm.uem.mz/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4385,6 +4585,7 @@ "decade_end": 1979, "summary": "Angola's National Archive holds magnetic-tape recordings made during the 1960s and 1970s in the Benguela, Huambo, Bié and Luanda regions, including interviews with traditional leaders (sobas and sekulos), oral narratives, songs and elders' memories, some of it recovered after an earlier period of neglect and now cared for by the Archive's oral-archive department.", "url": "https://www.ana.gov.ao/", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4414,6 +4615,8 @@ "summary": "The Royal Museum for Central Africa's ethnomusicology department holds roughly 3,000 hours of sound recordings of traditional music from Central Africa, with a strong focus on the Congo and Rwanda, spanning 1910 Edison-cylinder recordings made by Armand Hutereau in Uele province through later tape, cassette and digital field recordings. A digitization project (DEKKMMA), run with the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Ghent University, is making the collection more widely accessible.", "url": "https://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/discover/collections_management/archives_and_documentation/archives", "access_notes": "Physically held in Tervuren, Belgium, as the historical repository for this Central African material; access is by request to the museum's ethnomusicology department.", + "access": "on request", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4440,6 +4643,7 @@ "url": "https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/phonogrammarchiv/home", "citation": "IASA. Phonogrammarchiv repatriates Madagascar's acoustic heritage. Retrieved from https://www.iasa-web.org/phonogrammarchiv-repatriates-madagascar%E2%80%99s-acoustic-heritage.", "access_notes": "A digital copy of the collection was repatriated to the University of Antananarivo in 2012; the original recordings remain held by the Phonogrammarchiv in Vienna.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4489,6 +4693,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "CNRPAH, Algeria's national research center for prehistory, anthropology and history, has conducted ethnomusicological fieldwork since 1974 and built an audio collection of more than 300 hours of recordings; since 2007 it has coordinated Algeria's national inventory of intangible cultural heritage together with the country's regional cultural departments.", "url": "https://cnrpah.org/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4513,6 +4718,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Established in Tripoli in the late 1970s with methodological input from historian Jan Vansina, the Libyan Center for Archives and Historical Studies (formerly the Libyan Studies Center) built a large-scale oral history archive recording testimonies of participants in Libyan resistance to Italian colonial rule and survivors of Italy's concentration camps in Libya.", "url": "https://lcahs.ly/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4538,6 +4744,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Italy's national sound archive, founded in 1928 as the Discoteca di Stato, holds over 300,000 sound items ranging from Edison wax cylinders to digital recordings, including field recordings of Italian folk music, regional dialects, and oral traditions.", "url": "http://www.icbsa.it/", + "archive_type": "government agency", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4563,6 +4770,7 @@ "decade_end": 1970, "summary": "Founded in 1930 by Melpo and Octave Merlier, the Centre's Oral Tradition Archive gathered testimonies from more than 5,000 Greek Orthodox refugees from Asia Minor, covering roughly 1,475 investigated pre-1922 settlements and documenting daily life, the population exchange, and the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe.", "url": "https://www.kms.org.gr/en/archives/oral-tradition-archive/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4588,6 +4796,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Founded in 1934 and now part of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Institute runs a dedicated Sound Archive and Studio (established 1994) of Slovenian and South Slavic folk music, song, and dance recordings, with selected material published through its Etnomuza digital platform.", "url": "https://gni.zrc-sazu.si/en", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4613,6 +4822,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Successor to the folklore archive that composer-ethnomusicologist Constantin Brăiloiu founded in 1928 under the Society of Romanian Composers, the Institute preserves decades of field recordings of Romanian folk music and oral tradition gathered during Brăiloiu's and sociologist Dimitrie Gusti's village research campaigns and later fieldwork.", "url": "https://academiaromana.ro/ief/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4638,6 +4848,7 @@ "summary": "Established in 1924, the Archives of Latvian Folklore is the oldest folklore archive in the Baltic states, holding more than three million items including manuscripts, and audio and video recordings. Its centerpiece, the Cabinet of Dainas — Krišjānis Barons's card catalogue of over 200,000 Latvian folk songs — was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2001.", "url": "https://lulfmi.lv/en/archives-of-latvian-folklore", "citation": "UNESCO Memory of the World Register: 'Dainu skapis' (Cabinet of Dainas), inscribed 2001.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4662,6 +4873,7 @@ "decade_end": 1949, "summary": "Held at the Lithuanian Folklore Archives, this collection of early phonograph and later tape recordings of Lithuanian folk songs and music, made between 1908 and 1949, was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World national register in 2008 as documentary heritage of regional significance.", "url": "https://archyvas.llti.lt/en/lithuanian_folk_music_phonogram_collection/?id=55793", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4689,6 +4901,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Founded in 1909, Switzerland's oldest sound archive collects, documents, and publishes recordings of Swiss dialects across all four national languages; it is now housed within the University of Zurich's Institute of Computational Linguistics.", "url": "https://www.phonogrammarchiv.uzh.ch/de.html", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4738,6 +4951,8 @@ "summary": "The Institute's ethnology division holds a large tape-recorded folklore collection of ballads, folk songs, folktales, and descriptions of customs gathered across Iceland and Icelandic settlements in North America, with source material dating back to 1900.", "url": "https://arnastofnun.is/en/culture", "access_notes": "Selected recordings from the collection are accessible online via the ismus.is portal.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4762,6 +4977,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Tracing its research lineage to the Institute of Folklore founded by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1947, IEFSEM's Ethnographic Archive holds field-collected written records, photographs, and sound recordings of Bulgarian pre-industrial and traditional culture, with active digitization efforts underway.", "url": "https://iefem.bas.bg/en/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4786,6 +5002,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Founded in 1948, the Institute's Audio Library holds several thousand recordings of Croatian oral literature, folk music and dance, and narrations of custom, gathered from Croatian-speaking regions and Croatian communities living outside Croatia.", "url": "https://www.ief.hr/en/archive/collections/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4810,6 +5027,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "Founded in 1948 as the first musicology institute in the former Yugoslavia, the Institute holds an extensive archive of ethnomusicological field notation and sound recordings of Serbian folk songs and dances, built up through decades of ongoing fieldwork.", "url": "https://music.sanu.ac.rs/en/archive/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4858,8 +5076,11 @@ ], "decade_start": 1969, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1939, + "historical_period_end": 1945, "summary": "Belgium's federal research centre on 20th-century conflict, part of the State Archives since 2016, holds about 1,800 digitized interviews with former WWII resistance fighters, collaborators, and eyewitnesses, plus 1,200 interviews recorded between 1984 and 1998 on daily life under the German Occupation.", "url": "https://www.cegesoma.be/en/home", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4911,6 +5132,7 @@ "decade_end": null, "summary": "The Institute's Department of Ethnomusicology holds Slovakia's most extensive folk-music recording collection: over 3,500 tapes recorded by Institute staff from the second half of the 20th century onward, covering every region of Slovakia and Slovak diaspora communities abroad.", "url": "https://uhv.sav.sk/en/", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4939,6 +5161,7 @@ "summary": "Mexico's national sound archive, established in 2008 in Coyoacán, Mexico City, holds and preserves historical and contemporary recordings including music, oral narratives, radio broadcasts and field recordings in Spanish and multiple Mexican indigenous languages, some dating to early wax-cylinder recordings.", "url": "https://www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx/", "citation": "Fonoteca Nacional de México. Retrieved from https://www.fonotecanacional.gob.mx/.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -4993,6 +5216,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 1995, "decade_end": 1998, + "historical_period_start": 1960, + "historical_period_end": 1996, "summary": "Directed by Bishop Juan Gerardi and published as the 1998 report 'Guatemala: Nunca Más', REMHI gathered several thousand oral testimonies from survivors and witnesses of Guatemala's internal armed conflict; the original testimonies and case files are preserved at the archdiocese's Centro de la Memoria, which bears Gerardi's name after his 1998 assassination.", "url": "https://www.odhag.org.gt/cmmjg/", "access_notes": "The popularized version of the REMHI report is freely available online; original testimony archives are held for research access at the Centro de la Memoria.", @@ -5022,6 +5247,7 @@ "summary": "Founded in 1993 at the University of Costa Rica's School of Musical Arts, this archive rescues, preserves and digitizes Costa Rica's musical heritage, holding scores, photographs and sound recordings from more than 5,600 Costa Rican composers and musicians.", "url": "https://archivomusical.ucr.ac.cr/", "citation": "Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Artes Musicales. Archivo Histórico Musical. Retrieved from https://archivomusical.ucr.ac.cr/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5048,6 +5274,7 @@ "summary": "Cuba's national music museum in Havana, formed in 1998 from the merger of the earlier Museo y Archivo de la Música with the Odilio Urfé documentation center, holds a sound archive of wax cylinders, reel-to-reel tapes and thousands of discs documenting Cuban musical history, built partly from the Urfé family's private collection.", "url": "https://www.ministeriodecultura.gob.cu/es/ministerio-2/directorio-de-entidades/instituciones-nacionales/museo-nacional-de-la-musica", "citation": "Ministerio de Cultura de Cuba. Museo Nacional de la Música. Retrieved from https://www.ministeriodecultura.gob.cu/es/ministerio-2/directorio-de-entidades/instituciones-nacionales/museo-nacional-de-la-musica.", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5078,6 +5305,8 @@ "url": "https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti", "citation": "Radio Haiti Archive, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Retrieved from https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti.", "access_notes": "Freely accessible online via the Duke Digital Repository.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5133,6 +5362,7 @@ "summary": "Run by the Literature program at Bolivia's Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, this archive holds roughly 700 hours of audio with more than 7,000 recorded oral narratives — memories, local histories, testimonies, myths and stories — gathered from highland, valley and Amazonian communities across Bolivia's nine departments, in Aymara, Quechua and other languages.", "url": "http://www.literatura.edu.bo/archivo_oral/index.php/archivo/sobre-el-archivo", "citation": "Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Carrera de Literatura. El Archivo Oral - Fondo Oral Sonoro. Retrieved from http://www.literatura.edu.bo/archivo_oral/index.php/archivo/sobre-el-archivo.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5160,6 +5390,7 @@ "summary": "Custodied in Caracas by the Centro de la Diversidad Cultural (successor to the OAS-founded ethnomusicology institute INIDEF, built around Isabel Aretz's field research), this collection of 152,344 images and 23,383 sound recordings of music, legends, games, poetry, prayers and traditional medicine practices from across Latin America and the Caribbean was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in November 2023.", "url": "http://www.diversidadcultural.gob.ve/", "citation": "UNESCO Memory of the World Programme, Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean (2023 inscriptions); Fundación Centro de la Diversidad Cultural. Retrieved from http://www.diversidadcultural.gob.ve/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5184,9 +5415,13 @@ ], "decade_start": 1973, "decade_end": 1985, + "historical_period_start": 1973, + "historical_period_end": 1985, "summary": "Created by Montevideo's Museum of Memory together with the Association of Friends of MUME, this oral archive holds recorded testimonies from former political prisoners of Uruguay's civil-military dictatorship, including accounts from clandestine detention and torture sites, plus testimonies from relatives of the disappeared, accessible to researchers by appointment.", "url": "https://mume.montevideo.gub.uy/archivo-oral-de-la-memoria", "access_notes": "In-person access by appointment; summaries of available testimonies are published on the museum's site.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "museum", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5214,6 +5449,8 @@ "url": "https://ihncaexilio.org/el-acervo-ihnca/colecciones/", "citation": "El IHNCA en el Exilio. Colecciones. Retrieved from https://ihncaexilio.org/el-acervo-ihnca/colecciones/.", "access_notes": "Freely browsable online following the 2023 relaunch as 'El IHNCA en el Exilio' after the original archive at UCA Managua was confiscated by the Nicaraguan government.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5242,6 +5479,8 @@ "url": "https://www.vienamnhac.vn/data-bank.html", "citation": "Vietnamese Institute for Musicology. Data Bank. Retrieved from https://www.vienamnhac.vn/data-bank.html.", "access_notes": "Catalog entries and some audio browsable on the institute's website; full recordings typically require contacting the institute directly.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5269,6 +5508,7 @@ "summary": "A public anthropological research organization under Thailand's Ministry of Culture that systematically gathers and preserves ethnographic material from across the country, including audio field recordings, in a searchable online Anthropological Archives Database.", "url": "https://db.sac.or.th/anthroarchives/en/about-us.php", "access_notes": "Database searchable online in Thai and English; some holdings require an in-person research visit to Bangkok.", + "access": "partial online", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5297,6 +5537,7 @@ "url": "https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/news/2024/10/uva-returns-sound-recordings-and-film-footage-from-colonial-collection-to-indonesia.html", "citation": "University of Amsterdam. UvA returns sound recordings and film footage from colonial collection to Indonesia (October 2024).", "access_notes": "Digitized copies freely accessible in person at the NTT Regional Library, Kupang; original recordings remain held at the University of Amsterdam.", + "access": "on site only", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5323,6 +5564,7 @@ "url": "https://library.cpu.edu.ph/hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings-secured-in-unescos-memory-of-the-world-registry/", "citation": "Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific. Hinilawod Epic Chant Recordings (2024). https://www.mowcapunesco.org/register/hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings-2024/", "access_notes": "Digitized and curated by the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology; original tapes held at Central Philippine University, Iloilo City.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5348,6 +5590,8 @@ "summary": "Malaysia's national archives has run an oral history programme since 1963, one of the earliest in Southeast Asia, housed within its Documentation and Publication section; interviews recorded through the programme have been used extensively in local historical publications since the 1980s.", "url": "https://www.arkib.gov.my/en/", "access_notes": "Registration required for full access; short audio excerpts viewable online via the Archives' Online Finding Aid at ofa.arkib.gov.my.", + "access": "registration required", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5374,6 +5618,8 @@ "summary": "A government-funded cultural research institute established in 1974 whose Music Archive holds the world's largest collection of Papua New Guinean music recordings and documentation: more than 6,700 collections totalling roughly 12,000 hours of tape, cassette, and digital recordings, including early wax-cylinder and shellac recordings dating to 1898 repatriated from European archives.", "url": "https://www.ipngs.gov.pg/", "access_notes": "Access to the archive is by application to IPNGS in Port Moresby.", + "access": "on request", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5427,6 +5673,7 @@ "summary": "MicSem, a Catholic Church-founded research and public education organization based in Pohnpei since 1992, holds a digitized collection of over 20,000 tracks of Micronesian music, including recordings gathered from government radio stations across Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Yap, the Marshall Islands, and Palau dating from the 1950s onward, searchable through its own website.", "url": "https://micsem.org/music/music-listing/", "access_notes": "Music listings and audio streams are freely browsable on the MicSem website.", + "access": "open online", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5477,6 +5724,7 @@ "summary": "Nepal's principal Nepali-language library and archive, founded in 1955, holds an audio-visual collection of roughly 750 items including oral testimonies, an audio corpus of Nepali speech, transcribed radio interviews, and recorded voices of Nepali writers.", "url": "https://madanpuraskar.org/collection-development-2/", "access_notes": "Materials are held at the library's premises in Patan, Lalitpur; researchers should contact the library directly for access.", + "access": "on request", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", "date_added": "2026-09-01" @@ -5502,6 +5750,8 @@ "summary": "Sri Lanka's national library maintains a dedicated Folklore Collection documenting Sinhala and Tamil oral traditions, folk literature, and related documentary heritage as part of its national holdings.", "url": "http://www.natlib.lk/index.php/folklore-collection", "access_notes": "Located in Colombo; materials accessible on-site as part of the library's reference collection.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "verification_note": "Source URL returned 404 in the 2026-09-21 link check; site restructured. Scope (manuscripts vs. recordings) needs curator review.", "provenance": "v0.1 seed dataset, maintainer-curated from the holding institution's public page.", @@ -5560,6 +5810,7 @@ "summary": "A community-created digital archive launched in 2015 to document experiences of police violence not captured in official narratives. The archive collects photographs and oral testimony from community members via the Omeka platform, grounded in archival activism and community healing from state violence.", "url": "https://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org", "citation": "A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland. Retrieved from https://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org.", + "archive_type": "community or independent project", "related_ids": [ "storycorps-national-archive", "usc-shoah-foundation-vha", @@ -5617,6 +5868,7 @@ "summary": "The ADST's Foreign Affairs Oral History program has recorded over 2,600 oral histories by American diplomats. The organization also produces and shares these oral histories and facilitates publication of books about diplomacy by diplomats and others.", "url": "https://adst.org", "citation": "Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Retrieved from https://adst.org.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -5677,6 +5929,7 @@ "summary": "The DRA is a non-profit foundation supported by ARD that preserves essential aspects of German broadcasting history through sound recordings. It was founded in 1952 as the German sound archive and maintains two locations in Frankfurt am Main and Potsdam-Babelsberg.", "url": "https://www.dra.de/", "citation": "German Broadcasting Archive. German Broadcasting Archive (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv; DRA). Retrieved from https://www.dra.de/.", + "archive_type": "broadcaster", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -5732,6 +5985,7 @@ "summary": "A research center at North Carolina State University that supports oral history collection and maintains a digital archive of material about the Lebanese diaspora in the US and worldwide. The center has produced documentary and museum exhibition work on Lebanese-American history in North Carolina.", "url": "https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/", "citation": "Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. Retrieved from https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "saada-archive", "immigration-history-research-center-umn", @@ -5764,6 +6018,7 @@ "summary": "The National Archives of the Cook Islands was established in 1974 to preserve government records, cultural materials, and oral traditions. It holds a collection of over 4,000 images of the Cook Islands from the 1950s from the Donald Stanley Marshall collection.", "url": "https://www.culture.gov.ck/category/national-archives/", "citation": "National Archives of the Cook Islands. Retrieved from https://www.culture.gov.ck/category/national-archives/.", + "archive_type": "national archive or library", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -5791,6 +6046,7 @@ "summary": "The NSA preserves the history of smokejumping and aerial fire management through interviews, rosters, photographs, films, letters, reports and publications. It serves as a meeting area for people involved in wildland firefighting and supports preservation of national forests and grasslands.", "url": "https://smokejumpers.com/", "citation": "National Smokejumper Association. Retrieved from https://smokejumpers.com/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -5845,6 +6101,8 @@ ], "decade_start": 2015, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 2015, + "historical_period_end": 2015, "summary": "A crowd-sourced digital archive preserving media created by people and organizations involved in or witnessing the 2015 Baltimore protests following Freddie Gray's death. As of 2018, the collection held over 3,000 documents including images and oral histories, with materials portraying diverse perspectives on the events.", "url": "https://baltimoreuprising2015.org/", "citation": "Preserve the Baltimore Uprising. Retrieved from https://baltimoreuprising2015.org/.", @@ -5934,9 +6192,12 @@ ], "decade_start": 2010, "decade_end": null, + "historical_period_start": 1992, + "historical_period_end": 1995, "summary": "The War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo collects and presents the memories of children who lived through the Bosnian war, gathered initially through an online platform that received over 1,000 submissions from young adults. The museum displays these recollections through objects, video testimonies, and oral history excerpts.", "url": "https://warchildhood.org/", "citation": "War Childhood Museum. Retrieved from https://warchildhood.org/.", + "archive_type": "museum", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -6055,6 +6316,7 @@ "summary": "The Swaziland Oral History Project is a research and archival initiative that collects, preserves, transcribes and translates oral histories, clan genealogies and testimonies of Swazi elders, with particular attention to precolonial history of the Swazi kingdom. Materials were developed through cooperation between Swazi archivists, elders and professional historians, and were also transferred to the Historical Papers Research Archive at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.", "url": "https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/metadata/SWOHP/index.html", "citation": "University of Cape Town Libraries (Emandulo digital collections). Swaziland Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/metadata/SWOHP/index.html.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [], "preview_url": null, "verification_status": "partially_verified", @@ -6111,6 +6373,7 @@ "summary": "Folktales and other oral narratives collected in Turkey from 1961 by Ahmet E. Uysal, Warren S. Walker and Barbara K. Walker and donated to Texas Tech University in 1980. The archive's site offers transcriptions and English translations of some 2,000 tales, audio recordings, and over forty hours of Turkish folk music.", "url": "https://www.aton.ttu.edu/", "citation": "Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University. Uysal–Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative. Retrieved from https://www.aton.ttu.edu/.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "verification_note": "End year of collecting not stated by the source; decade_end left open.", "provenance": "Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.", @@ -6165,6 +6428,7 @@ "summary": "Begun in 1982 by the Bethesda-based Foundation for Iranian Studies, the program recorded structured interviews with about 180 political, diplomatic, cultural and economic figures of Pahlavi-era Iran, both proponents and opponents of the state's decisions. Tapes and transcripts are kept by the foundation; copies of the English interviews are held in Columbia University's Oral History Archives.", "url": "https://fis-iran.org/oralhistory/", "citation": "Foundation for Iranian Studies. Oral History of Iran. Retrieved from https://fis-iran.org/oralhistory/.", + "archive_type": "foundation or nonprofit", "related_ids": [ "columbia-oral-history-archives", "harvard-iranian-oral-history" @@ -6197,6 +6461,7 @@ "url": "https://oral.history.ufl.edu/", "citation": "University of Florida. Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Retrieved from https://oral.history.ufl.edu/.", "access_notes": "About 8,000 interviews freely accessible online through UF Digital Collections.", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "sohp-unc" ], @@ -6227,6 +6492,8 @@ "url": "https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml/collecting/oral-history.html", "citation": "Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University. Oral History Archives at Columbia. Retrieved from https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml/collecting/oral-history.html.", "access_notes": "Open to all researchers at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library.", + "access": "on site only", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "fis-oral-history-of-iran" ], @@ -6257,6 +6524,8 @@ "url": "https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center", "citation": "Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library. Retrieved from https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center.", "access_notes": "Most interviews available online.", + "access": "partial online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "related_ids": [ "roho-disability-rights" ], @@ -6287,6 +6556,8 @@ "url": "https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project", "citation": "Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Black Women Oral History Project. Retrieved from https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project.", "access_notes": "Transcripts and audio are fully digitized and available online through the library's research guide.", + "access": "open online", + "archive_type": "university or research institute", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "verification_note": "Languages inferred from country and subject; not stated by the source.", "provenance": "Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.", @@ -6351,6 +6622,7 @@ "url": "https://voicesofoklahoma.com/", "citation": "Voices of Oklahoma, in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society. Voices of Oklahoma. Retrieved from https://voicesofoklahoma.com/.", "access_notes": "Interviews freely available online, with audio and transcripts.", + "access": "open online", "verification_status": "partially_verified", "verification_note": "Sources give 2009 or 2010 as the start year; languages inferred.", "provenance": "Review-queue lead from the September 2026 Wikipedia/Wikidata harvest (docs/review-queue.csv), completed by search-based research on 2026-09-27; evidence in data/review-log.json.", diff --git a/data/datapackage.json b/data/datapackage.json index ead2941..5e5389e 100644 --- a/data/datapackage.json +++ b/data/datapackage.json @@ -106,6 +106,14 @@ "name": "decade_end", "type": "integer" }, + { + "name": "historical_period_start", + "type": "integer" + }, + { + "name": "historical_period_end", + "type": "integer" + }, { "name": "summary", "type": "string" @@ -122,6 +130,14 @@ "name": "access_notes", "type": "string" }, + { + "name": "access", + "type": "string" + }, + { + "name": "archive_type", + "type": "string" + }, { "name": "related_ids", "type": "string" @@ -177,6 +193,20 @@ "mediatype": "application/json", "description": "Country vocabulary with per-country usage." }, + { + "name": "vocab-access", + "path": "vocab/access.json", + "format": "json", + "mediatype": "application/json", + "description": "Controlled vocabulary for the optional access field, with definitions." + }, + { + "name": "vocab-archive-types", + "path": "vocab/archive-types.json", + "format": "json", + "mediatype": "application/json", + "description": "Controlled vocabulary for the optional archive_type field, with definitions." + }, { "name": "stats", "path": "stats.json", diff --git a/data/reference/un-m49-countries.json b/data/reference/un-m49-countries.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8585a47 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/reference/un-m49-countries.json @@ -0,0 +1,1168 @@ +{ + "$comment": "Static reference list of the 193 United Nations member states, used by gaps.html to show member states with no indexed collection (data/countries.json lists only countries that have one). Hand-maintained, not generated; update it if UN membership changes. `name` matches data/vocab/countries.json wherever a country appears there (common English short names). `region` and `subregion` follow UN M49 as used in data/vocab/countries.json (sub-region level, with 'Sub-Saharan Africa' and 'Latin America and the Caribbean' as the intermediate groupings). Observer states and territories are deliberately excluded; the list records no political claim.", + "sources": [ + "United Nations, Member States: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states", + "UN Statistics Division, Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/", + "ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes" + ], + "terms": [ + { + "name": "Afghanistan", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "AF", + "region": "Asia", + "subregion": "Southern Asia" + }, + { + "name": "Albania", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "AL", + "region": "Europe", + "subregion": "Southern Europe" + }, + { + "name": "Algeria", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "DZ", + "region": "Africa", + "subregion": "Northern Africa" + }, + { + "name": "Andorra", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "AD", + "region": "Europe", + "subregion": "Southern Europe" + }, + { + "name": "Angola", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "AO", + "region": "Africa", + "subregion": "Sub-Saharan Africa" + }, + { + "name": "Antigua and Barbuda", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "AG", + "region": "Americas", + "subregion": "Latin America and the Caribbean" + }, + { + "name": "Argentina", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "AR", + "region": "Americas", + "subregion": "Latin America and the Caribbean" + }, + { + "name": "Armenia", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "AM", + "region": "Asia", + "subregion": "Western Asia" + }, + { + "name": "Australia", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "AU", + "region": "Oceania", + "subregion": "Australia and New Zealand" + }, + { + "name": "Austria", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "AT", + "region": "Europe", + "subregion": "Western Europe" + }, + { + "name": "Azerbaijan", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "AZ", + "region": "Asia", + "subregion": "Western Asia" + }, + { + "name": "Bahamas", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BS", + "region": "Americas", + "subregion": "Latin America and the Caribbean" + }, + { + "name": "Bahrain", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BH", + "region": "Asia", + "subregion": "Western Asia" + }, + { + "name": "Bangladesh", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BD", + "region": "Asia", + "subregion": "Southern Asia" + }, + { + "name": "Barbados", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BB", + "region": "Americas", + "subregion": "Latin America and the Caribbean" + }, + { + "name": "Belarus", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BY", + "region": "Europe", + "subregion": "Eastern Europe" + }, + { + "name": "Belgium", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BE", + "region": "Europe", + "subregion": "Western Europe" + }, + { + "name": "Belize", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BZ", + "region": "Americas", + "subregion": "Latin America and the Caribbean" + }, + { + "name": "Benin", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BJ", + "region": "Africa", + "subregion": "Sub-Saharan Africa" + }, + { + "name": "Bhutan", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BT", + "region": "Asia", + "subregion": "Southern Asia" + }, + { + "name": "Bolivia", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BO", + "region": "Americas", + "subregion": "Latin America and the Caribbean" + }, + { + "name": "Bosnia and Herzegovina", + "iso3166_1_alpha2": "BA", + "region": "Europe", + "subregion": "Southern 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full recordings typically require contacting the institute directly\"; archive_type \"university or research institute\" from the holder's name (\"Institute for Musicology\" in \"Vietnamese Institute for Musicology (Viện Âm nhạc Việt Nam)\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://www.vienamnhac.vn/data-bank.html" + ], + "changes": { + "access": { + "from": null, + "to": "partial online" + }, + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "university or research institute" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000182", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: access \"partial online\" from access_notes: \"Database searchable online in Thai and English; some holdings require an in-person research visit\".", + "evidence": [ + "https://db.sac.or.th/anthroarchives/en/about-us.php" + ], + "changes": { + "access": { + "from": null, + "to": "partial online" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000183", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: access \"on site only\" from access_notes: \"Digitized copies freely accessible in person at the NTT Regional Library\".", + "evidence": [ + "https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/news/2024/10/uva-returns-sound-recordings-and-film-footage-from-colonial-collection-to-indonesia.html" + ], + "changes": { + "access": { + "from": null, + "to": "on site only" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000184", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"university or research institute\" from the holder's name (\"University\" in \"Henry Luce III Library, Central Philippine University\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://library.cpu.edu.ph/hinilawod-epic-chant-recordings-secured-in-unescos-memory-of-the-world-registry/" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "university or research institute" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000185", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: access \"registration required\" from access_notes: \"Registration required for full access; 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archive_type \"national archive or library\" from the holder's name (\"National Library\" in \"National Library of Sri Lanka\").", + "evidence": [ + "http://www.natlib.lk/index.php/folklore-collection" + ], + "changes": { + "access": { + "from": null, + "to": "on site only" + }, + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "national archive or library" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000193", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"community or independent project\" from the holder's name (\"People's Archive\" in \"A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "community or independent project" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000195", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"foundation or nonprofit\" from the holder's name (\"Association\" in \"Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://adst.org" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "foundation or nonprofit" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000197", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"broadcaster\" from the holder's name (\"Broadcasting\" in \"German Broadcasting Archive\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://www.dra.de/" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "broadcaster" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000199", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"university or research institute\" from the holder's name (\"Studies\" in \"Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "university or research institute" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000200", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"national archive or library\" from the holder's name (\"National Archives\" in \"National Archives of the Cook Islands\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://www.culture.gov.ck/category/national-archives/" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "national archive or library" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000201", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"foundation or nonprofit\" from the holder's name (\"Association\" in \"National Smokejumper Association\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://smokejumpers.com/" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "foundation or nonprofit" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000203", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: period discussed 2015 (2015 Baltimore protests; year stated in summary) from the summary: \"2015 Baltimore protests\".", + "evidence": [ + "https://baltimoreuprising2015.org/" + ], + "changes": { + "historical_period_start": { + "from": null, + "to": 2015 + }, + "historical_period_end": { + "from": null, + "to": 2015 + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000206", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"museum\" from the holder's name (\"Museum\" in \"War Childhood Museum\"); period discussed 1992–1995 (Bosnian War; standard dates (also stated in MV-000056)) from the summary: \"lived through the Bosnian war\".", + "evidence": [ + "https://warchildhood.org/" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "museum" + }, + "historical_period_start": { + "from": null, + "to": 1992 + }, + "historical_period_end": { + "from": null, + "to": 1995 + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000210", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"university or research institute\" from the holder's name (\"University\" in \"University of Cape Town Libraries (Emandulo digital collections)\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://emandulo.apc.uct.ac.za/metadata/SWOHP/index.html" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "university or research institute" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000212", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"university or research institute\" from the holder's name (\"University\" in \"Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://www.aton.ttu.edu/" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "university or research institute" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000214", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"foundation or nonprofit\" from the holder's name (\"Foundation\" in \"Foundation for Iranian Studies\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://fis-iran.org/oralhistory/" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "foundation or nonprofit" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000215", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: archive_type \"university or research institute\" from the holder's name (\"University\" in \"University of Florida\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://oral.history.ufl.edu/" + ], + "changes": { + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "university or research institute" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000216", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: access \"on site only\" from access_notes: \"Open to all researchers at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library\"; archive_type \"university or research institute\" from the holder's name (\"University\" in \"Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml/collecting/oral-history.html" + ], + "changes": { + "access": { + "from": null, + "to": "on site only" + }, + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "university or research institute" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000217", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: access \"partial online\" from access_notes: \"Most interviews available online.\"; archive_type \"university or research institute\" from the holder's name (\"University\" in \"Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center" + ], + "changes": { + "access": { + "from": null, + "to": "partial online" + }, + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "university or research institute" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000218", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: access \"open online\" from access_notes: \"Transcripts and audio are fully digitized and available online\"; archive_type \"university or research institute\" from the holder's name (\"Harvard\" in \"Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute\").", + "evidence": [ + "https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections/black-women-oral-history-project" + ], + "changes": { + "access": { + "from": null, + "to": "open online" + }, + "archive_type": { + "from": null, + "to": "university or research institute" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" + }, + { + "date": "2026-09-27", + "mv_id": "MV-000220", + "check": "derived fields", + "method": "derived", + "reviewer": "Claude (derived from record text)", + "finding": "Derived mechanically from the record's own text: access \"open online\" from access_notes: \"Interviews freely available online\".", + "evidence": [ + "https://voicesofoklahoma.com/" + ], + "changes": { + "access": { + "from": null, + "to": "open online" + } + }, + "outcome": "derived" } ] } diff --git a/data/stats.json b/data/stats.json index acf476b..8f5e7f5 100644 --- a/data/stats.json +++ b/data/stats.json @@ -315,6 +315,25 @@ "2010": 191, "2020": 192 }, + "by_access": { + "(not recorded)": 172, + "open online": 23, + "partial online": 12, + "on site only": 9, + "on request": 3, + "registration required": 2 + }, + "by_archive_type": { + "(not recorded)": 78, + "university or research institute": 76, + "museum": 21, + "foundation or nonprofit": 20, + "national archive or library": 15, + "intergovernmental body": 5, + "broadcaster": 2, + "community or independent project": 2, + "government agency": 2 + }, "field_coverage": { "language_note": { "records": 49, @@ -328,6 +347,22 @@ "records": 61, "percent": 27.6 }, + "access": { + "records": 49, + "percent": 22.2 + }, + "archive_type": { + "records": 143, + "percent": 64.7 + }, + "historical_period_start": { + "records": 40, + "percent": 18.1 + }, + "historical_period_end": { + "records": 40, + "percent": 18.1 + }, "related_ids": { "records": 123, "percent": 55.7 diff --git a/data/vocab/access.json b/data/vocab/access.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2fac22 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/vocab/access.json @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +{ + "$comment": "Controlled vocabulary for the optional `access` field: a coarse summary of how a collection's content (not just its catalogue) can be reached, as stated by the holder. `name` is the only value allowed in data/collections.json. A value is recorded only when the record's own `access_notes` clearly support it; otherwise the field is omitted. `access_notes` remains the fuller, authoritative wording. See DATA_DICTIONARY.md §2 and METHODOLOGY.md §4.", + "terms": [ + { + "name": "open online", + "definition": "The access notes state that the collection (or its published content) is freely accessible online, with no registration or request." + }, + { + "name": "partial online", + "definition": "Some content (selected items, excerpts, many but not all recordings) is freely online; the rest requires a visit, a request, or a partner institution." + }, + { + "name": "registration required", + "definition": "Full access requires registering an account or going through a registered partner; at most short excerpts are open." + }, + { + "name": "on request", + "definition": "Access is by application or request to the holder; the notes do not say it is limited to the holder's premises." + }, + { + "name": "on site only", + "definition": "Content is consulted in person (reading room, research visit, by appointment at the holder's premises); nothing substantive is stated to be online yet." + }, + { + "name": "restricted", + "definition": "Access is closed or limited to specific people (e.g. by narrator consent, embargo, or community protocol), as stated by the holder." + } + ] +} diff --git a/data/vocab/archive-types.json b/data/vocab/archive-types.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..85451d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/vocab/archive-types.json @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +{ + "$comment": "Controlled vocabulary for the optional `archive_type` field: the kind of institution named in `archive` (the holder), not the kind of collection. `name` is the only value allowed in data/collections.json. A value is recorded only when the institution's own name makes the type unambiguous; joint, renamed, or unclear holders are left without one. See DATA_DICTIONARY.md §2 and METHODOLOGY.md §4.", + "terms": [ + { + "name": "national archive or library", + "definition": "A national archive, library, or sound archive, as its name says (e.g. \"National Archives of …\", \"Arquivo Nacional …\", \"Fonoteca Nacional …\", \"State Archives of …\")." + }, + { + "name": "university or research institute", + "definition": "A university, college, or conservatoire, or a unit of one; an academy of sciences or one of its institutes; or an institute or centre whose name describes it as doing research or studies in a discipline." + }, + { + "name": "museum", + "definition": "A museum, or a department or archive of a museum." + }, + { + "name": "community or independent project", + "definition": "A collective, people's or community archive, or other independent project not part of a larger institution." + }, + { + "name": "broadcaster", + "definition": "A radio or television broadcaster, or a broadcasting archive." + }, + { + "name": "intergovernmental body", + "definition": "An organisation of states (e.g. UNESCO, the African Union) or one of its centres or lists." + }, + { + "name": "language archive", + "definition": "An archive whose name describes it as dedicated to language documentation." + }, + { + "name": "foundation or nonprofit", + "definition": "A foundation, association, society, registered association (e.V.), or other nonprofit organisation, as its name says." + }, + { + "name": "government agency", + "definition": "A ministry, board, or other government body that is not a national archive or library." + } + ] +} diff --git a/docs/HISTORICAL-PERIODS.md b/docs/HISTORICAL-PERIODS.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..61f3618 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/HISTORICAL-PERIODS.md @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +# Historical periods discussed — mapping for curators + +`historical_period_start` / `historical_period_end` record **when the events +the testimony describes took place**, as distinct from `decade_start` / +`decade_end` (when the testimony was recorded). See METHODOLOGY §8. + +The values below were **derived mechanically from each record's own +`title` and `summary`** by +[`scripts/migrations/2026-09-28-derived-fields.mjs`](../scripts/migrations/2026-09-28-derived-fields.mjs) +(review-log method `derived`). No source page was opened. They are meant to +be checked, and corrected, by a curator. + +## Rules used + +1. A value is set only when the collection is **principally about one + bounded historical event** that the title or summary names. +2. Years come either from the record's own summary (“years stated in + summary”) or, when the summary names the event without dates, from the + event's standard, widely cited dates (“standard dates”). +3. A single-year event is recorded with start = end (e.g. 1947–1947 for + Partition). The years bound the event itself; testimonies often also + discuss its aftermath, which is not bounded here. +4. Everything else is left blank — most records. Blank means “not + derived”, not “no historical focus”. + +## Mappings applied (40 records) + +| Event | Years | Basis for the years | Records — phrase in the record that names the event | +|---|---|---|---| +| Detention at Angel Island Immigration Station | 1910–1940 | years stated in summary | `MV-000106` Immigrant Voices Oral History Collection — “detained at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940” | +| Armenian Genocide | 1915–1923 | standard dates | `MV-000118` Armenian Film Foundation Genocide Testimony Collection — “Armenian Genocide survivors” | +| The Holocaust | 1933–1945 | standard dates | `MV-000045` Survivor Testimonies Collection — “Holocaust”<br>`MV-000057` Holocaust by Bullets Testimony Archive — “during the Holocaust”<br>`MV-000114` Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies — “Holocaust witnesses and survivors”<br>`MV-000119` Voices of the Holocaust — “oral histories of the Holocaust” | +| World War II | 1939–1945 | standard dates | `MV-000115` Oral History Collection — “World War II veterans”<br>`MV-000167` CegeSoma Oral History Interview Collections — “WWII resistance fighters” | +| Bracero Program | 1942–1964 | standard dates of the programme | `MV-000108` Bracero History Archive — “oral histories of braceros” | +| Japanese American incarceration | 1942–1946 | standard dates (first removals 1942 – last camp closed 1946) | `MV-000003` Densho Digital Repository — “Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated during World War II” | +| Atomic bombing of Hiroshima | 1945 | year stated in summary | `MV-000015` A-bomb Survivor Testimony Archive — “1945 atomic bombing” | +| Atomic bombing of Nagasaki | 1945 | year stated in summary | `MV-000079` Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors — “1945 atomic bombing” | +| Battle of Okinawa | 1945 | year stated in summary | `MV-000080` Battle of Okinawa Survivor Testimonies — “Battle of Okinawa” | +| Jeju 4.3 uprising and massacre | 1947–1954 | years stated in summary | `MV-000073` Jeju 4.3 Archives — “1947-54 Jeju uprising and massacre” | +| Partition of India | 1947 | year stated in summary | `MV-000014` The 1947 Partition Archive — “1947 Partition of British India” | +| Apartheid in South Africa | 1948–1994 | standard dates | `MV-000020` SAHA Oral History Collections — “struggle against apartheid” | +| Nakba | 1948 | year stated in summary | `MV-000041` Nakba Survivor Testimonies — “1948 Nakba” | +| White Terror (Taiwan) | 1949–1987 | years stated in summary | `MV-000076` White Terror Oral History Archive — “1949-1987 White Terror” | +| Korean War | 1950–1953 | standard dates | `MV-000075` Korean War Legacy Foundation Interview Archive — “Korean War oral histories” | +| Vietnam War | 1955–1975 | standard dates | `MV-000077` Oral History Project — “Vietnam War” | +| Guatemalan internal armed conflict | 1960–1996 | standard dates (to the 1996 peace accords) | `MV-000172` REMHI — Proyecto Interdiocesano de Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica — “Guatemala's internal armed conflict” | +| The Troubles (Northern Ireland) | 1968–1998 | standard dates (to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement) | `MV-000049` Prisons Memory Archive — “Northern Ireland's Troubles” | +| Solidarity and anti-communist opposition in Poland | 1970–1989 | years stated in summary | `MV-000053` European Solidarity Centre Archive — “from 1970 to 1989” | +| Bangladesh Liberation War | 1971 | year stated in summary | `MV-000078` Liberation War Museum Oral History Archive — “1971 Liberation War” | +| Chilean military dictatorship | 1973–1990 | years stated in summary | `MV-000129` Archivo Oral — “1973-1990 military dictatorship” | +| Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay | 1973–1985 | standard dates | `MV-000179` Archivo Oral de la Memoria — “Uruguay's civil-military dictatorship” | +| Indonesian occupation of East Timor | 1974–1999 | years stated in summary | `MV-000130` Chega! CAVR Truth Commission Testimonies — “1974-1999 Indonesian occupation” | +| Khmer Rouge regime | 1975–1979 | standard dates (also stated in MV-000016) | `MV-000016` Documentation Center of Cambodia Oral History Project — “Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979)”<br>`MV-000126` Khmer Legacies — “Khmer Rouge survivors” | +| Lebanese Civil War | 1975–1990 | years stated in summary | `MV-000042` UMAM Documentation & Research — “1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War” | +| Argentine military dictatorship | 1976–1983 | years stated in summary | `MV-000009` Archivo Oral de Memoria Abierta — “1976-1983 military dictatorship” | +| Internal armed conflict in Peru | 1980–2000 | years stated in summary | `MV-000128` Centro de Documentación e Investigación (CVR Testimonies) — “1980-2000 internal armed conflict” | +| Salvadoran Civil War | 1980–1992 | years stated in summary | `MV-000127` Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen — “1980-1992 civil war” | +| Bosnian War | 1992–1995 | standard dates (also stated in MV-000056) | `MV-000056` Ordinary Heroes Digital Archive — “1992-95 Bosnian War”<br>`MV-000206` War Childhood Museum — “lived through the Bosnian war” | +| Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda | 1994 | year stated in summary | `MV-000022` Genocide Archive of Rwanda — “1994 genocide against the Tutsi” | +| September 11 attacks | 2001 | date stated in summary | `MV-000116` Oral Histories — “September 11, 2001 attacks” | +| Hurricanes Katrina and Rita | 2005 | standard date | `MV-000117` Hurricane Digital Memory Bank — “Hurricanes Katrina and Rita” | +| Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami | 2011 | year stated in summary | `MV-000081` Michinoku Shinrokuden — “2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami” | +| 2015 Baltimore protests | 2015 | year stated in summary | `MV-000203` Preserve the Baltimore Uprising — “2015 Baltimore protests” | + +## Considered and left blank + +These records name historical events, but not one bounded event that the +collection is principally about, so no period was derived. A curator with +the source in hand may set one. + +| Record | Why left blank | +|---|---| +| `MV-000002` Veterans History Project | Covers wars from World War I to the present. | +| `MV-000004` Visual History Archive | The Holocaust *and* later genocides (Rwanda, Armenia, Cambodia, Nanjing). | +| `MV-000008` Human Rights and Historical Memory Virtual Archive | Colombia's armed conflict is described as “decades-long”, without dates. | +| `MV-000013` Memory of Nations | Several regimes across the 20th century. | +| `MV-000017` Palestinian Oral History Archive | Pre-1948 Palestine *and* subsequent displacement. | +| `MV-000021` District Six Museum Sound Archive | Memories of the community as well as its destruction under apartheid. | +| `MV-000033` Oral History Programme (Zimbabwe) | Two separate events (First and Second Chimurenga). | +| `MV-000036` 858: An Archive of Resistance | Footage span not stated. | +| `MV-000040` Documentation of War-Affected Communities | Conflict with the Lord's Resistance Army; no dates in the record. | +| `MV-000046` Iranian Oral History Project | “1920s through the 1980s” — a span of history, not one event. | +| `MV-000048` IWM Sound Archive | “Conflicts since 1914”. | +| `MV-000050` AJR Refugee Voices | Whole life stories of refugees, not only the Nazi period. | +| `MV-000055` Blinken OSA Archivum | “Cold War-era”, no bounded event. | +| `MV-000068` Citizens Archive of Pakistan | Began with Partition but expanded to broader narratives. | +| `MV-000072`, `MV-000074` “Comfort women” testimonies | The wartime system is named, but the record gives no dates. | +| `MV-000111` Viet Stories | Life stories: prewar Vietnam, the war, and resettlement. | +| `MV-000121` JANM oral histories | Japanese American history generally, as well as incarceration. | +| `MV-000138` HART | Flight *after* the 2021 takeover; ongoing. | +| `MV-000147` Mozambique oral history | The independence war *and* rural life. | +| `MV-000180` Narrativas Orales (Nicaragua) | The Somoza dictatorship *and* the insurrection. | +| `MV-000209` Slave Narratives | Slavery in the United States has no bounded start in the record. | diff --git a/gaps.html b/gaps.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..12a63a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/gaps.html @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> +<meta charset="UTF-8" /> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /> +<title>Coverage Gaps — Mapping Voices + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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