Q3 2026
Forming the pilot recording team
Otwieramy archiwum…
I·04Phase: Concept❦Culture◈AI❖Education
Talking Archive
Witnesses to history recorded and transcribed
Concept phase — looking for first partner municipalities and schools
Problem
The generation of witnesses to history is leaving us faster than we can record them. Traditional interviews require many hours of transcription work. Most municipalities, parishes and libraries lack the resources to systematically preserve local testimony.
Approach
A mobile recording team + standardised biographical questionnaire + automatic AI transcription (Whisper) + editorial review + publication in a local archive. We include schoolchildren as interviewers — the intergenerational encounter itself becomes the historical material.
Specifications
Interview length
45–90 min
Transcription
AI + editorial review
Output
Audio + transcript + metadata
Technology stack
WhisperSpeaker diarisationGDPR workflowBiographical standards
Roadmap
Milestones of the initiative
Q4 2026
50 reference interviews — first set
2027
Methodological package for replication in partner municipalities
2028
Public testimony repository at national level
Partners we are looking for
Who we want to work with
Primary and secondary schools
Pupils as interviewers
Rural municipalities
Local authorities coordinating speaker recruitment
Care homes and senior centres
A natural source of speakers aged 75+
Rural housewives' circles, senior clubs
Local community networks
Municipal libraries
Place of publication for testimonies
Who this is for
Municipalities, parishes, schools, libraries, care homes, senior circles
Get involved
Your institution could be the first.
First partners co-create the initiative through feedback and tests. They receive full support from the foundation's team at pilot pricing, and their contribution feeds into the public reference package.
FTI · KRS 0001049849
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