Overview

A collaborative project to provide online access to thousands of hours of Gaelic and Scots recordings.

The collection, of over 4,000 items, is one of the most important repositories of oral tradition to be gathered in western Europe.

A primary ethnomusicological resource of international importance consisting of music, photographs, and films.

Several collections of place-names collected from oral and manuscript sources by interested members of the public.

The aim of the project was to investigate the issues involved in providing network acccess to materials from our extensive audio archive.

This article was published on Jan 18, 2012