Canadian Heritage committee  Montréal: my seven-year-old would kill me if I said anything else.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Oui, oui.

Canadian Heritage committee  Those are all big questions. I think the Internet collapses distance, in one way. People are going on to Twitter or doing Google image searches.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. But the mine in Cobalt, Ontario, could be a mine in Siberia. In that way, it destabilizes--i.e., where does Canada fit into that universe? That's one question. I've been seeing—certainly among students that I'm working with and community partners and so on—that it also re

Canadian Heritage committee  If we're going to wait for a standard, we'll be waiting a long time, I think. It's constantly changing. I don't know how you get around that, because those old pneumatic tapes or reel-to-reel or audio or micro-cassettes.... You know, analog was also very fragmented too. What

Canadian Heritage committee  What I would say is that oral historians have spent 40 years thinking about how to interview people--focusing on the interview, to do it right and so on--but we haven't thought about after the interview. Again, that's why we have these tens and tens of thousands of interviews sit

Canadian Heritage committee  I think so. Part of it is necessity, in the sense of young people finding their niche in the economy and their work lives. But certainly in our community of practice, our community of oral historians, there are people who are producing and going in that direction, in the sense of

Canadian Heritage committee  I certainly think that government making a contribution in terms of platforms would be huge, but also in terms of seed money for good ideas. Thinking of it as seed money, I think, would be really important too. Whether Canada is behind or not, I'm not sure. Certainly in terms o

Canadian Heritage committee  I guess from my angle, what I'm seeing at my university is an explosion of creativity with old boxes of knowledge. History is a very traditional discipline, very archival, and we were very slow in adapting to new technology and new media. What we're seeing now is this tremendou

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much for the invitation to be here today. I'll open with an apology. My glasses broke in half about five minutes ago, so I will have to read fairly closely to my paper in order to actually see it. My presentation builds on two of the points raised in your terms

Canadian Heritage committee  I had those glasses for ten years anyways. I want to address two of the points raised in your terms of reference--namely, skills development and access. More specifically, I want to provide you with my perspective on how the digital revolution is transforming how we understand,