From the Field to the Net: Cataloguing and Digitising Cultural Research Material

25 Introduction My purpose in this paper is to describe the progression of research material, mainly tape-recorded interviews, from the field to the Sound Archive of Folklore and Comparative Religion i.e. the TKU Archive at the University of Turku, Finland. I will describe briefly the processes of cataloguing the interview material and the progression of the original analogue material to on-line use on the Internet. Also, issues in these key areas will be highlighted: the process of digitisation; the creation of databases; and associated with equipment, technology, and ethical questions.