Memoro – the Bank of Memories that Greece is now a part of (http://www.bankofmemories.gr/), is a “non profit” project dedicated to the collection of the experiences and life stories of people born before 1950. Memoro consists of audio or video clips of a few minutes.
This process is not an end in itself; rather, the end goal is the structural free distribution of the collected contents. The chosen media is the Web, in particular a site for the collection and use of audio/video content.
Unlike other similar initiatives, in order to ensure the purpose and coherence of the project, a filter on content uploading is put in place through Editorial Staff approval.
Memory – Memory Bank is a nonprofit project born in Turin, Italy, in August 2007. The first website, www.bancadellamemoria.it, was launched on June 15th, 2008. Since September 2009, the project has been managed in Italy by Banca Association ONLUS Bank of Memories .
Memoro the Bank of Memories is intended as a project capable of generating wealth, both cultural and economic. This value is not intended to be accumulated but distributed : cultural wealth through free availability of interviews on-line, economic wealth through payments for the work of the people involved, and the creation of local initiatives to support the growth of the project worldwide.
The collection of stories occurs in two distinct ways:
1) “Editorial” collection.
The editors are involved by viewing all movies, processing (inserting any edits or subtitles) and completing with “attributes” necessary for classification, related to author and content. The editorial staff also puts each story in “categories ” and proposes a series of themed “paths” in order to facilitate consultation.
2) User upload.
Anyone can become a “Memory Hunter” : all that is needed is just an audio recorder, a cellphone, a camera, a videocamera (more or less professional). Once recorded, the stories can be easily uploaded by users.
The witnesses, videos, audio and photos uploaded will be grouped within their own personal page: here the user can modify, add or delete created content .
Users can also create new “paths”, sets of audio and video stories to share with other site users.
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