Oral archives provide valuable sources for the history of sciences that is concerned with the context of production of knowledge, including biographical embedding, material, practical, instrumental or institutional aspects as well as professional cultures [1]. They also contribute to shed further light on the different roles played by actors who are otherwise made invisible in scientific research : technicians, internship students, temporary workers, and so on. In addition, they give an access to the complexity of interactions between researchers, disciplines, research fields and organizations, and of relations between social and epistemic values.
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