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Expand Up @@ -102,7 +102,9 @@ Acquiring such a large and diverse corpus is a lengthy and complex endeavour wit
**Rich Contextual Information for Historical Research**

The practical acquisition of the corpus also provides an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the sources, which is essential for their use. Although radio and newspaper archival records come with standard metadata, this information is often heterogeneous and varies significantly in content, quantity and quality across collections and institutions. Additionally, there are other sources of contextual knowledge, including unspoken or unwritten information. Two ongoing initiatives aim to further document the production and preservation of these archives to provide rich contextual information for historical research, all the more important in this multi-source context.

The first seeks to leverage the information contained in newspaper directories, following the approach outlined in [1]. As a starting point for the Swiss context, we are focusing on extracting semi-structured information from the Swiss Press Bibliography published by Fritz Blaser in 1956 [@alma991017981185503976]. This bibliography documents in great detail about 480 newspapers and around 1,000 periodicals published in Switzerland between 1803 and 1958. It offers rich insights into the origins and history of Swiss newspapers, which can be used to enhance the documentation of newspapers in the Impresso corpus and interface, as well as support the study of the newspaper ecosystem in Switzerland. A similar approach will be used to trace the development of radio programmes through radio schedules and magazines.
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The second initiative focuses on radio, adopting an oral history perspective to gain a better understanding not only of radio archives, but also of each archive custodian. What important aspects about these archives might we be unaware of? The ‘Oral History of Radio Archivists” (OHRA) addresses this by conducting semi-structured interviews of Impresso audio partners.These interviews explore topics such as archival preservation and documentation policies, digitisation priorities, and the evolution of data quality over time, with the aim of providing complementary narrative descriptions of radio archives.


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