Early Publications of Finno-Ugrian Society and Finnish Antiquarian Society have been released in Fenno-Ugrica

The National Library of Finland has released the early publications of two learned societies at the Fenno-Ugrica collection. The release consist of 130 monograph and journal titles of Finno-Ugrian Society and 64 from the Finnish Antiquarian Society.

The batch includes the material from the following series:

Finnish Antiquarian Society

  • Suomen Muinaismuistoyhdistyksen Aikakauskirja
  • Kansatieteellinen Arkisto
  • Suomen Museo – Finskt Museum

Finno-Ugrian Society

  • Apuneuvoja suomalais-ugrilaisten kielten opintoja varten
  • Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia
  • Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae
  • Kansatieteellisiä julkaisuja
  • Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen. Zeitschrift für finnisch-ugrische Sprach- und Volkskunde.

For additional information, please, read the press release in Finnish here.

MAA – Nichesourcing the Textbook for the Benefit of An Art Performance

Liiketila art collective and Minority Languages Project of the National Library Finland  have launched a crowdsourcing, or perhaps even a nichesourcing task for the public, aiming to collect spoken Uralic languages to be utilized in an art performance called MAA (land, soil, nation, ground, earth, country).

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Political literature of 1930’s from Komi Republic is available at Fenno-Ugrica

Digitized political legal deposit materials received from the The Komi National Library are now set at Fenno-Ugrica portal. 97 monographs in Komi-Zyrian language written in Molodtsov alphabet have been loaded on the Special collection of Fenno-Ugrica called “Komi National Library”.  Continue reading

Fenno-Ugrica Content Available in a New Platform – Korp

Since the very beginning of the Digitization Project of Kindred Languages, our objective has been the securing the wider-than-usual availability of new corpora, which do base to the digitized material. Our primary intention has to spread the Fenno-Ugrica data to such tools and environments, which are made available for both, the academic and the language communities.

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Digitization Project of Kindred Languages goes to Helsinki Book Fair, 22-25 Oct 2015

The Helsinki Book Fair is about to begin in a week. The theme country of this year’s event is Russia, thus we wanted to highlight our services related to Russian studies and Uralic languages. Naturally, the Digitization Project of Kindred Languages will be present in this event at the National Library’s stand (6e71). Please, find here a brief summary of our programme at the Book Fair.

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