Research On Information Resources Construction Of Oral Archives

As an essential part of the national archive management，research oninformation resources construction of oral archives is a massiveinformation system project with great complexity. It convers variousscience studies including archives，history，sociology，journalism，andethnology，and meanwhile，plays a pivotal role in driving the hugevehicle of the national archive management project. This study ispursuing an insight into the basic theories and practices of research oninformation resources construction of oral archives through our ownresearches along with reference to finished academic works of others. Itconsists of five parts.1. Introduction. This part summaries the overall background for thestudy by clarifying the importance of research direction，describing themethodology underlying，and briefly introducing the findings of currentacademic works in this area. This study contributes by providing athorough image for current situation of research on information resourcesconstruction of oral archives，and therefore assists in laying foundationfor future improvement.2. Basic theory. This part starts from relative definitions andtheories，and provides an analysis of attributes and conditions for oralarchives. It also summarizes types and other details of oral archives，anddraws a overall pictures of its relations with other relative conceptsincluding oral activity，oral history，news interview，social memory andso on.3. Necessity and principles. This part clarifies research oninformation resources construction of oral archives’s necessity andprinciples through explaining its significance in preserving historymaterials and in bridging for the process of culture heritage. Understanding these points assists in further improvement in relativetheories development and in the following research work implement.4. Overlook on current situation. Since research on informationresources construction of oral archives is essential archive management，no matter in domestic and overseas，substantial works have been done byresearchers all around the world. This part summarizes current findings ofpast academic works in this area，but meanwhile points out limitations inthese works.5. Conclusion. This part summarizes the whole papers and thenprovides a thorough recommendation to practice work of research oninformation resources construction of oral archives. It all also discussedthe limitations listed in previous parts and then reaches the conclusionthat integration is the keys to research on information resourcesconstruction of oral archives by asserting that it is not feasible toconstruct a well-structured and optimized information system withoutintegration.