FAIR Memories: A workflow for the preservation and collaborative reuse of analog oral history collections

FAIR Memories is a Horizon Europe-funded project developing a reusable workflow for the FAIR-ification of legacy oral history collections, allowing for their transition to current Open Science standards. Using a historically important multimodal collection about Italian popular culture, the workflow is being developed jointly by domain experts and digital humanists with particular attention to the following: preservation of the recorded voice as a core epistemic dimension; standards-based interoperability; semantic enrichment; and compliance with contemporary privacy regulations. This presentation was given at ADHO 2026 and presents the initial stages of the project, detailing the collection used, the proposed steps of the workflow, and some of our key theoretical approaches and findings to date.