Project duration: 10/2010–9/2011
Project leader: Nation’s Memory Institute
Coordinator at SAS: Slovak National Corpus, Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Annotation: Within the Nation’s Memory Institute there has been gradually established an audiovisual archive that nowadays keeps files of more than 2000 entries. Wide range database of film records, witness interviews, and audiovisual formats of practices of the totalitarian regimes in Slovakia, presents a unique part of the cultural heritage. The NMI actively proceeds in its project that aims to fully and systematically record testimonies of persecuted people. Up to the present we have filmed more than 550 witness interviews in total length of more than 1000 hours of audiovisual recording. All the testimonies are copyrighted and safely stored in the NMI’s audiovisual archive. These recordings should serve for research and educational purposes, possibly also for producing new TV documentaries. They are easily to be viewed and used thanks to the detailed database of individual interviews in the audiovisual library. Methodology of recording and further processing of the testimonies is grounded on long-term experiences and time-tested practice of domestic as well as foreign partners working in the field of capturing the witness testimonies.
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