Digital Resources and Tools for Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

In the demonstration session, digital tools and resources for research, education and general enquiry of Latvian, Latgalian and Livonian languages, literature, traditional culture, autobiographical heritage and history will be presented by the representatives of institutions that are developing and curating them.

The session will start with short presentations of the tools and resources listed below, followed by individual demonstrations and open discussions at the presentation desks.

Additionally, scienceforukraine.eu – a platform to support the Ukrainian scientific community, will be presented.

Any other curator of digital resources for Baltic studies who participating in the AABS conference and would like to present their resource is welcome to take part. Contact: sanita.reinsone@lulfmi.lv

This session is organized within the State Research Programme “Digital Resources for the Humanities” under grant agreement No. VPP-IZM-DH-2020/1-0001.

Short Bio

Digital resources and tools for humanities and social sciences to be presented:

Language resources & processing tools: korpuss.lv, tezaurs.lv, nlp.ailab.lv, ruta.ailab.lv (Normunds Grūzītis, LU MII)

Latgalian corpora: MuLa.lv, MuLaR.rta.lv (Sanita Martena, RTA)

Cluster of digital resources for Livonian language and culture: livonian.tech (Valts Ernštreits and Gunta Kļava, UL LI)

Vortal of Latvian Literature: literatura.lv (Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, LU LFMI)

Latvian Prose Counter: proza.lnb.lv (Anda Baklāne, LNB)

Women in Latvian Culture and Society (1870–1940): womage.lv (Zita Kārkla, LU LFMI)

Digital Archive of Latvian Folklore: garamantas.lv (Sandis Laime, LU LFMI)

Citizen science and crowdsourcing platform: iesaisties.lv (Sanita Reinsone, LU LFMI)

Digital platform for a collaborative collection of regional words: apvidvardi.lu.lv (Sanda Rapa, LU LaVI)

Sub Unit

• Digital Humanities and Technology

Chair

• Valts Ernštreits, University of Latvia Livonian Institute

Participants

• Anda Baklāne, National Library of Latvia

• Eva Eglāja-Kristsone, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia

• Normunds Grūzītis, IMCS, University of Latvia

• Sandis Laime, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia

• Sanita Martena, Rēzekne Academy of Technologies

Session Organizer

• Sanita Reinsone, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia