The national oral archive as a research partner

The University of Hamburg's NCAC digital-archive partnership describes about 5,000 audio recordings of spoken art and oral traditions and about 1,200 written documents spanning Senegambia and neighbouring areas. The numbers describe a collection, not material that this archive has listened to or cleared for reuse. ^{[hamburg-archive]}

The partner points readers to a research data repository and stresses that digital access can widen educational use while original materials remain locally held. Individual record descriptions, language, provenance, rights and consent still require item-by-item checking. ^{[hamburg-archive]}