Last year, we released a plenty of monographs in Komi languages in our online collection, Fenno-Ugrica. In addition to the monographs, we also are publishing newspapers in both, Komi-Permyak and Komi-Zyrian. All in all, there will be 23 titles and around 40 000 pages of Komi newspapers in our collection by the end of June 2015.
Category Archives: Release
Brief technical overview of Revizor, the editor for correcting OCR text material
OCR’ed text is often lacking in quality because of errors during the optical recognition process, especially when the source material is old or otherwise in a bad state. These errors make it hard to rely on the text for building a corpus or word lists and makes the source material less accessible to use for study or to incorporate into other tooling for language researchers. This is a problem that our OCR editor tries to eradicate, or at least contribute a possible solution towards.
The Electronic Collection of the Murmansk State Regional Universal Scientific Library in Skolt Sami is linked to Uralica
The collection of children books and school books in Skolt Sami language links to which were given up to the Project by Murmask State Regional Library is available at Uralica. Continue reading
National Library of Russia joins Uralica
We are proud to announce that the latest, and extensive, set of linked materials in Uralica portal has just been released. This time, the National Library of Russia has offered more than 2300 links to the digitized monographs and newspapers in various Uralic languages.
Consider It Done! Monograph Frenzy at Fenno-Ugrica
Dear readers! I have a pleasure to announce that we have completed the second stage of the continuation phase of the Digitization Project of Kindred Languages by releasing all the pre-selected monographs in our online collection, Fenno-Ugrica. It is a milestone reached, indeed!
Material from the Komi National Library Accessible through Uralica
With the help of fund, received from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Cultures, we are developing the Uralica service that aims to bring together libraries and other institutions that possess digital content in Uralic languages. The latest addition was made last week, when we linked some digitized material from the Komi National Library onto Uralica. The linked material in Komi can be accessed here.
A variety of monographs in Komi languages is issued at Fenno-Ugrica
This recently added collection of Fenno-Ugrica consists of 57 monographs in Komi-Permyak and of 89 in Komi-Zyrian. Komi-Zyrian is the largest language of the area and so there are more monographs in this language represented at the collection. Continue reading
54 Monographs in Udmurt are Released at Fenno-Ugrica
The project has proceeded with the addition of 54 monographs in Udmurt languages onto Fenno-Ugrica. The main part of these items in Udmurt consists of religion, ABC-, grammar, text and orthography books for the elementary school and the adult education. Continue reading
Monographs in Samoyedic Languages (Nenets and Selkup) are Available at Fenno-Ugrica
The third set of monographs received from The National Library of Russia is now available at Fenno-Ugrica.New arrivals consist of 54 monographs in Nenets and 12 in Selkup. Due to the diffusion and small amount of Selkup speakers, monographs in this language are represented in the low number. Continue reading
Finno-Ugrian Researcher Discovers Linguistic Treasures Every Day
We recently published the first material produced in the continued Digitisation Project of Kindred Languages in the Fenno-Ugrica collection, a total of 75 monographs in the Mari languages. To discuss this material, we met with Finno-Ugrian researcher Mrs Julia Kuprina, a project researcher at the Morphological Analyzers for Minority Finno-Ugrian Languages project. We spoke with her about the material in the collections, her own research in language technologies, and naturally also the Hill Mari language.