CONFERENCEDigital Humanities Center dhc@lu.lv
This topic addresses the study, curation, and reuse of folklore and ethnographic materials in digitised and digital contexts, including oral narratives, beliefs, customs, vernacular knowledge, and related documentation. It supports research on digital folkloristics that brings together archival theory, folkloristic analysis, and textual analysis of folklore and oral history corpora, using both qualitative and computational methods. Particular attention may be given to multilingual materials, linked folklore collections, and the evolving digital infrastructures of folklore and oral history archives. The research focus is open. Possible directions include, but are not limited to:
- how textual and corpus-based analysis of digitised and born-digital folklore and oral history materials can contribute to folkloristic and historical interpretation
- how folklore and oral history archives can be linked, enriched, and made interoperable through shared metadata models, multilingual approaches, and cross-collection connections
- how computational and AI-based methods, where relevant, can support textual analysis, metadata enrichment, pattern detection, or multilingual access, while complementing close reading and qualitative interpretation.