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CALL FOR PAPERS | Oral Archives Journal | 2 - 2026

Oral Archives: Lifecycle and Cross-Disciplinary Dimensions

Manuscript submission deadline: March 31, 2025
Publication date: January, 2026

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Oral Archives Journal (OArJ) is an open access peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to oral sources. It aims at offering a critical space for discussing issues related to the construction, maintenance, use and reuse of oral archives. The journal publishes academically rigorous and original works in Italian, French and English. It is published once a year, available online in open access.

Editor-in-Chief:
Silvia Calamai, University of Siena, Italy

ISSN xxxx-xxxx (online)

Current IssueVol 1 (2025)

Published February 24, 2025

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Table of Contents

Editorial

Why This Journal, Why Now
Silvia Calamai
5-19
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/oar-3334

Oral Data Production

Digital Voices. Tale of a Technological Journey
Matteo Cialone, Véronique Ginouvès
21-34
PDF (French)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/oar-3335
Towards an Oral Corpus for Heritage Piedmontese
Eugenio Goria, Fabio Gasparini
35-55
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/oar-3337
Sound Heritage at GIPSA-lab: More Than Half a Century of Dialect Surveys
Jean-Pierre Lai, Giovanni Depau, Elisabetta Carpitelli
57-69
PDF (French)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/oar-3338

Oral Data Use and Re-use

The Role of the Interviewer in the Cooperation Between Speakers and Researchers: The VAM («Voci dell’Adda e della Mera») Project
Andrea Martocchi, Vittorio Dell’Aquila, Fabio Scetti
71-87
PDF (Italian)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/oar-3339

Speech Technology

Phoné: An Initiative to Develop a Dataset for the Automatic Recognition of Spoken Italian
Gianpaolo Coro, Francesco Cutugno, Loredana Schettino, Emilia Tanda, Alessandro Vietti, Vincenzo Norman Vitale
89-107
PDF (Italian)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/oar-3340

Landscaping Oral Archives

Oral Sources and the New Regulation of the Schools of Archival Sciences
Fortunata Manzi, Maria Francesca Stamuli
109-127
PDF (Italian)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/oar-3341
Report from the Seminar They Called them Mad People. Arezzo, February 21-23, 2024
Bianca Abbà
129-131
PDF (Italian)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/oar-3342
Less a census, more a lesson. A critical examination of the Gra.fo Reloaded oral archive inquiry results
Duccio Piccardi
133-172
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/oar-3343
News and Events
173-175
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/oar-3344
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