Resources
The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling contains important resources for people undertaking participatory research, research creation and for scholars and communities interested in Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
- Oral Historian’s Digital Toolbox
It provides reviews of over 100 digital tools of potential use to qualitative researchers
and artists going public in their work. http://storytelling.concordia.ca/toolbox/digital-toolbox - Oral History Ethics
http://storytelling.concordia.ca/toolbox/ethics - Oral History Interviewing and GeoTranscription Webinars
http://storytelling.concordia.ca/toolbox/webinars - Montreal Life Stories Website (see training and ethics sections)
lifestoriesmontreal.ca. - Stories Matter Oral History Database Software
http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/
The Geomedia lab contains as well important resources and projects for people interested in exploring emerging cartographic practices and in the development of new mapping applications.
- http://goingpublicproject.org/
- Centre d’histoire de Montreal – montreal.qc.ca/chm
- CEREV – http://cerev.concordia.ca/
- Écomusée du fier monde – http://ecomusee.qc.ca/
- In Griffintown – ingriffintown.com
- Laboratoire d’histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal – lhpm.uqam.ca/
- Laboratoire Ville et ESPAces politiques (VESPA), INRS – labovespa.ca/fr/
- Les Habitations Jeanne Mance, Centre d’histoire de Montréal – http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/chm_hjm/
- MacLeod Nine Productions – macleod9.com
- Mobile Media Lab – mobilities.ca/
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre – mhmc.ca
- Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) – http://migs.concordia.ca/
- Montreal Life Stories – lifestoriesmontreal.ca
- On the Move – onthemovepartnership.ca/
- Post/Industrial Montreal – postindustrialmontreal.ca
- Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network – qahn.org
- Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, Mapping the Mosaic : Montreal and its Diverse Neighbourhoods – mapping.montrealmosaic.com/
- Spoken Web – http://spokenweb.concordia.ca/
- Stories Matter – http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/
- Urban Occupations – urbanoccupationsurbaines.org
- Wapikoni Mobile – http://wapikoni.tv/
Oral History
- Anadolu Kültür – http://www.anadolukultur.org
- Anadolu Kültür, Book: Moush, sweet Moush: Mapping Memories from Armenia and Turkey – http://www.anadolukultur.org/images/UserFiles/Documents/Editor/Moush_Sweet_Moush.pdf
- Australian Generations Oral History Project. http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/australian-generations/about/
- Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History http://www.baylor.edu/oralhistory/
- British Library Sound Archives – http://www.bl.uk/nsa
- Center for Public Humanities & Digital Humanities http://csudigitalhumanities.org/
- Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research, University of Essex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/links
- Centre for Popular Memory (South Africa) – http://www.popularmemory.org.za/
- Centre for Visual and Oral History Research. University of Huddersfield. http://www.hud.ac.uk/research/researchcentres/cvohr/
- Columbia Center for Oral History http://library.columbia.edu/locations/ccoh.html
- East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) – http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/
- Far East prisoners of war (FEPOW) experiences – http://www.captivememories.org.uk
- Groundswell – Oral History for Social Change – http://www.oralhistoryforsocialchange.org/
- Historica-Dominion Institute Memory Project – http://www.thememoryproject.com/
- Humans of New York – http://www.humansofnewyork.com/tagged/stories
- Kilbirnie-Lyall Bay Community Centre Oral History Project – http://kilbirnie.natlib.govt.nz/
- Memories of New Zealand and the Vietnam War – http://www.vietnamwar.govt.nz/
- Multicultural History Association of Ontario – http://www.mhso.ca/
- Ohariu Valley Oral History Project – http://www.wcl.govt.nz/heritage/ohariu/
- Oral history and folklore – National Library of Australia – http://www.nla.gov.au/what-we-collect/oral-history-and-folklore
- Prison Memory Archive – http://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/
- Professional Historians’ Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa – http://www.phanza.org.nz/
- Quebec Heritage Web – http://quebecheritageweb.com/
- Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. University of Florida. http://oral.history.ufl.edu/
- Scottish Oral History Centre – http://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/research/history/sohc/
- Southern Oral History Program. University of North Carolina. http://sohp.org/
- Storycorps – http://storycorps.org/
- StoryNet – http://storynet.ca/
- The History Makers – http://www.thehistorymakers.com/
- The University of Hertfordshire Heritage Hub – http://heritagehub.herts.ac.uk/
- University of São Paulo, Brazil, the Estação Memória Project ( http://estacaomemoria.blogspot.com.br/), an intergenerational research program and a research centre COLABORI – http://www.eca.usp.br/nucleos/colabori/
- Vermont Folklife Centre http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/index.htm
- Winnipeg’s Oral History Centre – http://www.oralhistorycentre.ca/
- Yad Vashem – http://www.yadvashem.org/
- Inspire Art Mtl – http://inspireart.org/
- Skol-CEDA – http://skolceda.wordpress.com/
- The Water of Life – www.thewateroflife.ca
- Atlas Cinématographique http://www.atlascine.org/
- Cleveland Historical http://clevelandhistorical.org/
- Joy Parr’s Megaprojects Site – http://megaprojects.uwo.ca/
- Mapping Baybrook. http://mappingbaybrook.org/
- Memoryscapes www.portsofcall.org.uk, www.memoryscape.org.uk
- Passing Stranger: The East Village Petry Walk – http://eastvillagepoetrywalk.org/
- PhilaPlace: Sharing Stories from the City of Neighborhoods http://www.philaplace.org/
- Place Matters (NYC) – http://placematters.net/
- Placing Voices/Voicing Places http://www.placingvoices.com/
- Returning the Voices to Kouchibouguac National park, http://returningthevoices.ca/
- Sharing Authority with Baba http://sudburyukrainians.ca
- Street Museum (Museum of London) – http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Resources/app/you-are-here-app/home.html
- The Griffintown Tour – www.griffintowntour.com
- District Six Museum – http://www.districtsix.co.za/
- Identity of English-speaking Quebec in 100 Objects – http://100objects.qahn.org/
- International Coalition for Sites of Conscience – http://www.sitesofconscience.org/
- L’écomusée de la Communauté le Creusot http://www.ecomusee-creusot-montceau.fr/
- Melbourne Immigration Museum http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/
- Musée de la femme – http://museedelafemme.qc.ca/y
- Musee de la Mémoire Vivante. http://www.memoirevivante.org/
- Museu da Pessoa (Brazil) – http://www.museudapessoa.net/_index.php/v2013/home
- Museum of London http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/
- NY Tenement Museum http://www.tenement.org/
- Pier 21 – Canada’s Museum of Immigration http://www.pier21.ca/
- Sakahàn. International Indigenous Art – http://www.gallery.ca/sakahan/fr/50.htm
- The Canadian Museum of Human Rights http://museumforhumanrights.ca/home
- 28th (Māori) Battalion – http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
- Alberta Métis Settlements Oral History & Traditional Land Use Project – http://www.ecoplan.ca/329/knowledge-and-experience/first-nations-and-met…
- Indigenous Foundations – http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/video-resources.html
- Indigenous Oral History Holdings State Library of Western Australia – http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/guides/indigenous_material/indigenous_ora…
- OurVoices – Stories of Canadian People and Culture (Omushkego Oral History Project) – http://www.ourvoices.ca/index
- Resistance To Residential Schools: Digital Stories – http://youth.society.uvic.ca/TRC
- Banff New Media Institute http://www.banffcentre.ca/
- Center for Documentary Studies (Duke U) – http://documentarystudies.duke.edu/
- Eramus Studio for e-research – http://www.eur.nl/erasmusstudio/
- HiPSTAS – High Performance Sound Technologies – http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/hipstas/about/
- Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada: eugenicsarchive.ca
- Medea Collaborative Media Centre. Malmo University. http://medea.mah.se/2012/11/living-archives/
- Mukurtu – http://www.mukurtu.org/
- Reciprocal Research Network http://www.rrnpilot.org/
- Research Data Canada – http://rds-sdr.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/index.html
- South African History Archive (SAHA) – http://www.saha.org.za
- http://www.ubu.com/
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