This paper describes the process of a two-year collaborative enterprise, aiming at offering both the Italian scientific communities and non-academic stakeholders a Vademecum dealing with the conservation, the description, the use and the re-use of oral sources. For the very first time, very different subjects worked together in order to solve long-standing structural problems related to oral sources through the dissemination of good practices, shared knowledge and cross-disciplinary approach to production, management, access and preservation of audio material produced within research projects.

Audio and audiovisual archives are at the crossroads of different fields of knowledge, yet they require common solutions for both their long-term preservation and their description, availability, use and reuse. Archivio Vi.Vo. is an Italian project financed by the Region of Tuscany, aiming to: (i) explore methods for long-term preservation and secure access to oral sources, and (ii) develop an infrastructure under the CLARIN-IT umbrella offering several services for scholars from different domains interested in oral sources. This paper describes the project's infrastructure and its methodology through a case study on Caterina Bueno's audio archive.

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The contribution discusses oral sources, their use for historical and social research, their authenticity and reliability, considering the relevant perspective of legal protection.