Oral History and Native Culture PreservationOur View of the Oral History Preservation Projects at Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County () Liyun Hu (Public management school Yunnan university) ()(Guodong Jiang NO.1school in Tianzhu county,Gansu)

Oral History is an important way to construct local culture resource.Oral History project is benefit for collecting local live culture resource, and promoting the collection and the service of local culture resource

This paper is supported by EvergreenTake the oral history and culture record project carried out by No.1 shchool of Tianzhu County Gansu as an example,discuss the conditions,steps and ways of starting oral history project.

Background of Project. Theme of Project Procedures and Contents of Project Enlightenments

Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County is the first couty implementd the Regional National Autonomy Policy.There are 16 nationalities dwell in Tianzhu.Chinese culture mix together with minority nationality culture,Tianzhu has rich cultural resource.

No.1school is located in the center of the county---Huazang town. This school has long history, and rich educational resource, and high educational quality.

(Theme of project)Three series of Theme Searching for the lost figure--- record of folk culture Open the memory in storage---view of the social life Record the live state--- description of Schoolife Five elements who ,what,object,when,where

Existing project Interview of Tibetan Tu Nationality culture scholareducationlist:Diao Sangji Interview of Folk Customs scholar,educationlist:Jiang MingdeInterview of Singing Artists :Ding Shengcai Live record of Tibetan drink song sing:Dai Jiga

Procedures and Contents of Project

11.Form a teamTeacher team with lots of capabilitiesStudents team with a certain time plan and echelon.

2 Training(content of training) (training of oral history) (training of local culture) (training of information technology)(ways of training) (self-study) (summer school) (lecture) (watch and study an testing interviw)

3(study backgrounds)Searching in the library and online resource.Ask the insiders and others.

4(Implementation of Interview)(procedures of interview)(skill of interview)(documents of interview)(outline of interview)(a power letter of attorney)(daily log)

5(interview outcome processing)(interview outcome )(sound recording file )(video recording file)(transcript)(presents from interviewee)(copying files of collection and documents of interviewee)(save and back up digital file)(archive entity document)

6information system construction

function of website Including long period storage of data, Interactive communities, resource collecting, online exhibition, digital publication, information retrieval.(digital communities file sofeware)(metadata plan) Dublin Core Set,

Metadata plan Take Dublin Core Set for reference, change according to the characteristic of project, definite 15 elements: record number, title, source,type,language,theme etc.

Every interview unit, every file has independent metadata description of every file group in every interview unit,

7(popularize the achievements)(online popularization)(exhibition)(publication)(Local culture showroom)

(Enlightenments)Oral history project could add culture record, show the history, current situation and Lineage of local culture in its entiretyOral history project should develop on the native land, serve for it.

Oral history has an educational function, facilitates the participants understanding of local cultural identityensures the sustainability of the projects.