October 18th, 2011
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Google Germany has teamed up with German public broadcaster ZDF and several other German organizations to create a unique oral history database called “Memory of the Nation”… A ZDF team travelling across the country has already collected more than 8,000 hours of interview footage with Germans who bore witness to events from before World War One, through the start of a single currency for the eurozone, and up to today…

“Memory of the Nation” includes a feature for users to submit their own video testimonials, subject to review by an editorial board.
» Google partners with German media, pols on massive oral history project - Notes - Spectrum - DW-WORLD.DE (via interestingsnippets)

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