Medieval Storytelling and Analogous Oral Traditions Today: Two Digital Databases
Evelyn Birge Vitz, Marilyn Lawrence
This essay presents two open-access digital databases of video clips of modern performances of medieval narratives and analogous living oral…
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The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: An Overview
Joel Sherzer, Susan Smyth Kung
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a digital repository of audio, video, and textual materials…
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Cartlanna Sheosaimh Uí Éanaí: The Joe Heaney Archives
Lillis Ó Laoire
This essay outlines the creation of the Joe Heaney digital archives. A renowned traditional performer from Galway, Ireland, Heaney (1919-1984)…
From Spoken Word to Digital Corpus: The Calum Maclean Project
Andrew Wiseman, John Shaw
This essay describes an online, digital corpus of Gaelic folklore collected by the late Calum Maclean (1915-1960), Scotland’s most prolific…
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The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature
David F. Elmer
This essay provides a brief historical sketch of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature and describes recent efforts to…
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MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada
Beverley Diamond, Ian Brodie
MacEdward Leach made the earliest ethnographic recordings of folksong on both Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland, recordings that remained largely…
The Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews Digital Library
Belén Bistué, Bruce Rosenstock
The essay describes the digital library containing audio files and transcriptions of Hispanic ballads and other oral literary genres sung…
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Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann: The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin
Ríonach uí Ógáin
Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann, The National Folklore Collection at University College Dublin and successor to the Irish Folklore Commission (1935-1970), consists…
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The James Madison Carpenter Collection of Traditional Song and Drama
David Atkinson, Julia C. Bishop, Robert Young Walser
This essay describes the folklore collection of James Madison Carpenter (1888-1983), who gathered an extensive body of folk songs and…
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A Jukebox Full of Stories
William Schneider
This essay describes Project Jukebox, an online program that features oral history recordings associated texts and visuals. The program offers thematic…
Estonian Folklore Archives
Risto Järv
This essay presents the history and development of the The Estonian Folklore Archives, the central folklore archives of Estonia established…
The Sirat Bani Hilal Digital Archive
Dwight F. Reynolds
This essay provides a description of the Sirat Bani Hilal Digital Archives of the University of California, Santa Barbara, including…
Orality and Technology, or the Bit and the Byte: The Work of the World Oral Literature Project
Mark Turin
Exploring the role of literacy and technology in the production and documentation of oral literature, this essay focuses on the…
The Digital Archiving of Endangered Language Oral Traditions: Kaipuleohone at the University of Hawai‘i and C’ek’aedi Hwnax in Alaska
Andrea L. Berez
This essay compares and contrasts two small-scale digital endangered language archives with regard to their relevance for oral tradition research.…
Curation of Oral Tradition from Legacy Recordings: An Australian Example
Nick Thieberger
Oral tradition recorded by linguists in the course of their fieldwork needs to be archived for longterm access and reuse.…
Ukrainian Folklore Audio
Natalie Kononenko
Ukrainian Folklore Audio is a website that relies on crowdsourcing and allows the public to hear songs, stories, and beliefs…
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The Heritage of Australian Children’s Play and Oral Tradition
Kate Darian-Smith
The Childhood, Tradition, and Change project undertook the largest nation-wide study of children’s games and play culture in Australia in…
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The SKVR Database of Ancient Poems of the Finnish People in Kalevala Meter and the Semantic Kalevala
Lauri Harvilahti
This essay presents the principal aims of establishing a web-based infrastructure for epic research and demonstrates possibilities for using this…
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The Matti Kuusi International Database of Proverbs
Outi Lauhakangas
Based on Matti Kuusi’s library of proverb collections, the Matti Kuusi International Database of Proverbs is designed for cultural researchers,…
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The Working Papers of Iona and Peter Opie
Julia C. Bishop
This essay describes the archival collection of Iona and Peter Opie, the English folklorists who published a series of classic…
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On the Principles of a Digital Text Corpus: New Opportunities in Working on Heroic Epics of the Shors
Dmitri A. Funk
This essay discusses the main principles of a Digital Text Corpus initiated in 2011 with support from the Department of…
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Noting the Tunes of Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads: The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA)
Eric Nebeker, Patricia Fumerton
This essay focuses on the ways a digital archive of printed, pre-1701 English broadside ballads facilitates and complicates the orality…
The Philippine Epics and Ballads Multimedia Archive
Nicole Revel
This essay offers an introduction to the Philippine Epics and Ballads Archive. This collection is a joint endeavor between singers,…
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