Audio and video recording and digital databases are tools — but what is lost when a living account is moved into a digital file? We discuss the tension between documentary fidelity and the natural life of memory.
From oral history to the digital archive: tools and challenges
Guest: The Arabian Archive team
How do we document living memory before modernity folds it away? An episode that is technical and philosophical at once, with the team behind the “Arabian Archive” project for Saudi oral heritage.
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Host: Welcome to a new episode of the Anthro podcast.
Guest: Thank you for having me.