ABSTRACT
Informed by existing debates on the relationship between digital oral history and public archives, this chapter examines some of the technological, methodological and ethical concerns of working with testimony in online spaces. It is based on a critical analysis of the “1947 Partition Archive”—an open-access digital repository of oral testimonies of Partition survivors collected by volunteers worldwide and housed by the Stanford University Library. The objective of this chapter is to highlight that in order to engage with stories in the digital age, public institutions such as archives need to rethink the ways in which narratives are produced and circulated. It also seeks to highlight their responsibility toward interviewers, narrators and audiences in ensuring collaboration, transparency, reflexivity and shared authority during the research process.
