Practical Seminar “Opening the Trilogy: Folklore Taxonomies & Annotated Texts for Reproducible Research” to Be Held

On 20 June 2024, within the framework of the 19th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) (program), the digitalhumanities.lv seminar will take place at the University of Latvia Academic Centre, House of Nature. The event is organized in collaboration with CLARIN-LV and DARIAH-EU and will be led by independent researcher Joshua Hagedorn (USA).

This hands-on seminar is particularly intended for folklore researchers, focusing on working with text corpora. Active participation is expected: attendees will need a laptop and prior preparation by installing the required software (instructions: GitHub link). No prior knowledge is necessary.

Language: English
Format: In-person only
Venue: University of Latvia Academic Centre, House of Nature, Auditorium Dextrum I (Jelgavas iela 1, Riga)

Schedule:

• Part 1: 10:30–12:30

• Part 2: 13:40–15:40

Registration: Google form

About the Workshop
The session introduces the Trilogy repository, designed to support folklore research in the digital humanities by providing a common repository of taxonomic data and annotated text corpora. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Explain the Trilogy components (TMI, ATU, AFT) and their interrelations

• Identify potential applications for research analysis

• Access and query the annotated folktale corpus and taxonomic data using open-source tools (R/RStudio)

• Create reproducible research pipelines based on Trilogy data assets

• Contribute to expanding these open-source resources

The seminar is organized within the ISFNR congress “Folk Narratives in the Changing World” and supported by the project “Development of an Open and FAIR-Compliant Digital Humanities Ecosystem in Latvia” (VPP-IZM-DH-2022/1-0002).