"You ve got your work cut out!". Digital archives and oral history

The text follows an itinerary from virtual museums or digital museums, which through ICTS are permanently accessible, to specific autobiographical oral history museums that record popular knowledge and that UNESCO recognised as intangible cultural heritage in 2003. These oral history museums adopt a model whose purpose is not restricted to compiling memories from an ethnological perspective, but that displays each life as precious content that actively strengthens community ties. Work in digital archives and oral memory museums enables collective identities and concepts of tradition to be processed as constructed institutions. With these new identities, ethnological and historical past is integrated with migratory flows and social and cultural changes.