Web-based Information Giving of Oral History Interviews of the National Library and Archives of I.R of Iran

Today, oral history has played an important role in the contemporary historiography and has many applications as a research tool for historical studies. Sources of oral history interviews are located in the original sources of history and help a lot in remaking the conditions and historical space of the research. In line with the policy of disseminating information, National Library and Archives of I.R of Iran has decided to give information about the resources resulted from oral history interviews on the world wide web. In this regard, it is necessary to be a suitable description of the resources, then based on the rules of machine-readable cataloging (MARC), data on the network be downloaded on the web network and be used by researchers. The present article explores the process of web-based information giving of the interviews of oral history in the National Library and pursued his interest in the preservation of qualitative research materials for secondary use, depositing his own datasets and overseeing the development of this archival service. His experiences with the Edwardians were important in pioneering the methodology of oral history, and the research contributed to his later publication on method, the voice of the past: oral history (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2000). Paul Thompson has recently conducted his research on Jamaican Transnational Families. He has carried out a national survey of 500 life-story interviews on family life, work and the community in Britain before 1918. He is the author of other works including: The Edwardians (1975 and 1992), The Voice of the Past (1978, 1988 and 2000),The Work of William Morris (1967 and 1991), Living the Fishing (1983), I Don’t Feel Old (1990), The Myths We Live By (1990), City Lives (1996), Pathways to Social Class (1998) and Growing up in Stepfamilies (1998).1 The present article Journal is published in International Journal of Social Research Methodology. The articles published in this journal are scientific and methodological ones whit a tendency towards theoretical issues.