storytelling

These are generally run by universities or cultural nonprofits dedicated to the archiving of stories for research purposes.

Library of Congress - American Folklife Center http://www.loc.gov/folklife/
Oral History Association: http://www.oralhistory.org/
National Storytelling Network http://www.storynet.org/
H-Oralhist listserv: http://www.h-net.org/%7Eoralhist/
International Oral History Association: http://www.ioha.fgv.br/ioha/english/index.html
Brooklyn Historical Society Oral History Program: http://www.brooklynhistory.org/oral_history/oral_hist.html
Brooklyn Historical Society Blog: http://brooklynhistory.org/blog/
Emma: Brooklyn Historical Society’s catablog of archives, manuscripts and special
collections http://brooklynhistory.org/library/wp/
Minnesota Historical Society: http://www.mnhs.org/index.htm
Columbia Oral History Research Office: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/index.html
Alan Lomax's Association for Cultural Equity http://www.culturalequity.org
American Life Histories, Federal Writers’ Project 1936 - 1940 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Baylor University Institute for Oral History: http://www.baylor.edu/oral_history/
Oral Histories of the American South (University of North Carolina): http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project http://densho.org/archive/
Pittsburgh and Beyond: The Experience of the Jewish Community: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/n/ncjw/
Working Class Public History (Concordia University): http://storytelling.concordia.ca/workingclass/index.html
Stories Matter and Center for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia
University, Montreal: http://storytelling.concordia.ca/oralhistory/index.html
Tibet Oral History Project: http://www.tibetoralhistory.org/
ACT-UP Oral History Project: http://www.actuporalhistory.org/
Project Jukebox (University of Alaska, Fairbanks): http://jukebox.uaf.edu/
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Oral History Collection: http://oralhistory.cshl.edu/mainMovie.html
Illinois State Museum Audio-Video Barn: http://avbarn.museum.state.il.us/welcome
The Judah L. Magnes Museum: http://www.magnes.org/
Vermont Folklife Center http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org // database: http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/archive/index.html
Millman Parry: http://chs119.harvard.edu/mpc/
StoryCorps: http://www.storycorps.org/
Radio Rookies: http://www.wnyc.org/radiorookies/
This American Life www.thisamericanlife.org/
Center for the Study of History and Memory http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/ and
http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/eadbrowse.html

Archive of our own: http://archiveofourown.org/works- fanfiction, fiction, opensource
Tim Burton's Collaborative Stainboy: http://burtonstory.com/connect.php
Alabaster: http://emshort.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/alabaster-official-release/
Exploding Dog: http://www.explodingdog.com/
Songs to Wear Pants to: http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/
Slow Wave: http://www.slowwave.com/
Forest Grove: http://www.forestgroveestates.com/
Old Jews Telling Jokes: http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/ - video, jokes
Crime Scene: http://www.crimescene.com/
Crazy Quills: http://crazyquills.net / can search by genre, author type. Subject,
Environmental Storytelling Database: http://www.naturestory.com/database,environ.htm

Gaza/Sderot: Life in Spite of Evderything - http://gaza-sderot.arte.tv/
Folk Songs for the Five Points: http://tenement.org/folksongs/ - field recordings have users “create” songs
Aids Quilt: http://www.aidsquilt.org/
Canadian Film Board Interactive Stories: http://www.nfb.ca/interactive
Canadian Film Board http://films.nfb.ca/capturing-reality/ - tagged by topic, speaker
Post Secret: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ - 500MIL visitors!,
This Is Signified http://www.thisissignified.com
Mapping Main Street: http://www.mappingmainstreet.org/
The Johnny Cash Project: http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/
The Eternal Moonwalk: http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com/index.php
David Lynch's Interview Project: http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/www/ - video, "meet people".

Artist-driven and culturally cognizant databases of interactive stories. History or fiction? Something in between, created at the intersection of the reader and the storyteller.

City of Memory: http://www.cityofmemory.org
Labryinth Project: http://dornsife.usc.edu/labyrinth/electronic2.html