[Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

Florence Devouard anthere9 at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 25 11:25:40 UTC 2012


On 2/25/12 2:12 AM, Castelo wrote:
> On 24-02-2012 07:48, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
>> Leave the use of historical sources to historians, and then cite from
>> their books. That's what historians are for.
>> Kind regards
>> Ziko
> Ziko,
>
> there's a lack of historians writing books outside Europe/US, specially
> on some traditional oral history. They love to write about what other
> historians like, and the unpublished content remains unpublished.
>
> If i understood correctly, Oral Citations Project doesn't intend to
> replace books. Its focus is on what is not covered by books.
>
> Amike,
>
> Castelo
>
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Most companies do not get a dedicated historian to deal with their own 
archives. Few historian do that as volunteers, and many companies just 
do not spend money on this type of activity.

Florence




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