ABSTRACT
This paper addresses the relationship between sociophonetics and oral history from the point of view of the artifacts they both produce: oral archives. Differences and similarities with respect to fieldwork and data collection, the relationship between researchers and speakers, and the transcription of oral documents are discussed. FAIR principles and issues concerning data reuse are presented, in order to introduce open-science principles. Finally, the potential of a closer cooperation among oral historians, sociolinguistics and sociophoneticians, speech technologists, and digital humanists is envisaged.
