Digital Heritage Serving Two Masters: the Great Public and the Academia
Hakkarainen, Jussi-Pekka (2016-09-23)
Hakkarainen, Jussi-Pekka
23.09.2016
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2016092324273
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2016092324273
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Slides of my presentation at the Seminar on Fenno-Ugric Computational Linguistics, Helsinki, 23th Sept 2016
Tiivistelmä
Abstract
The National Library of Finland has been implementing the Minority Languages Project as of 2012. The project is financially supported by the Kone Foundation. During this project the National Library of Finland has digitized and made available approximately 1200 monograph and more than 100 newspaper titles in several Uralic languages. The materials are available to both researchers and citizens in the National Library’s Fenno-Ugrica collection. http://fennougrica.kansalliskirjasto.fi/
The project will produce digitized materials in the Uralic languages as well as their development tools to support linguistic research and citizen science. The resulting materials will constitute the one of the largest resources for the Uralic languages in the world with data that can be utilized for instance in language revitalization projects, for instance. Through this project, researchers will gain access to corpora, which they have not been able to study before, and to which all users will have open access regardless of their place of residence.
In my brief presentation, I will give a brief overview on the project and 1) how we utilized the social media (Facebook, Twitter, VKontakte etc) to gain audience for our collection and 2) how the needs of researchers and laymen were met in crowdsourcing.
The National Library of Finland has been implementing the Minority Languages Project as of 2012. The project is financially supported by the Kone Foundation. During this project the National Library of Finland has digitized and made available approximately 1200 monograph and more than 100 newspaper titles in several Uralic languages. The materials are available to both researchers and citizens in the National Library’s Fenno-Ugrica collection. http://fennougrica.kansalliskirjasto.fi/
The project will produce digitized materials in the Uralic languages as well as their development tools to support linguistic research and citizen science. The resulting materials will constitute the one of the largest resources for the Uralic languages in the world with data that can be utilized for instance in language revitalization projects, for instance. Through this project, researchers will gain access to corpora, which they have not been able to study before, and to which all users will have open access regardless of their place of residence.
In my brief presentation, I will give a brief overview on the project and 1) how we utilized the social media (Facebook, Twitter, VKontakte etc) to gain audience for our collection and 2) how the needs of researchers and laymen were met in crowdsourcing.