Crowdsourcing platform for folklore manuscript transcription
The long-term crowdsourcing campaign for transcription of the manuscripts of the Archives of Latvian Folklore [...]


The long-term crowdsourcing campaign for transcription of the manuscripts of the Archives of Latvian Folklore was launched in the June 2016. The campaign is organized by the Archives of Latvian Folklore in cooperation with the Latvian National Radio, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Latvia, and the Latvia’s Centenary Bureau. The title of it is […]

The Digital Archives of Latvian Folklore
Garamantas.lv aims to provide open access to the collections of the Archives of Latvian Folklore [...]


Garamantas.lv aims to provide open access to the collections of the Archives of Latvian Folklore (http://en.lfk.lv), namely – manuscripts, images, audio and video recordings. The project provides multilingual interface and various virtual participatory activities, such as transcription and translation of manuscripts and audio recordings, descriptive annotations of images, social tagging and commenting. The digital archives […]