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 […]
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 […]
Sagnagrunnur is a geographically mapped database of the main published collections of Icelandic folk legends. The database involves a distribution map of published Icelandic legends, and is connected to both the homes of the original storytellers and collectors and those places mentioned in the legends (which can still be found). Most of these legends come from […]
The central aim of this three-year project is to document the collection and publication process of Jón Árnason’s Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og æfintýri (1862-1864) and the other materials collected as part of that project in the form of an extensive, freely-accessible and user-friendly digital archive closely integrated with relevant Icelandic and international manuscript collections, databases and websites, […]