Designing a Griotte for the Global Village: Increasing the Evidentiary Value of Oral Histories for Use in Digital Libraries

Designing a Griotte for the Global Village: Increasing the Evidentiary Value of Oral Histories for Use in Digital Libraries

A griotte in West African culture is a female professional storyteller, responsible for preserving a tribe's history and genealogy by relaying its folklore in oral and musical recitations. Similarly, Griotte is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to foster collaboration between tradition b...

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Main Author: Dunn, Rhonda Thayer
Other Authors: Leggett, John J.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Semantic Web
topic maps
oral history
TEI
historical narrative
XML
RDF
digital libraries
digital humanities
Historical Web
CIDOC CRM
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9711

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