Open E-resources of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre RAS

Abstract

Current trends in the development of research at the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ILLH KarRC RAS), which has a history of over 95 years, within its traditional research themes, are mostly associated with digitization of scientific knowledge. This article provides a brief overview of open e-resources on linguistics and folklore studies, created and continuously updated by the Institute’s staff: Veps and Karelian Open Corpus, Audio Map of Balto-Finnic Languages of Karelia and Adjacent Regions, Application for spell-checking newly scripted Karelian and Veps variants, LiPaS: Multimedia Glossary of Karelian, “Ludic Dialectal Lexicon”, Electronic revised and expanded version of the Karelian Language Dictionary (Tver variants), Murreh: Karelian Dialectal Database, website of the Interregional Marathon of Letters in Karelian and Veps “Mother Tongue Morale”, Geographical information resource of the toponymy of Karelia, ILLH KarRC RAS Audio Record Archives website, Flexi Disc Collection, Sound Collection of the ILLH KarRC RAS Audio Record Archives, Folklore Archives website, electronic encyclopedia “Folk Narrators of Karelia”. These resources, if they continue to be developed systematically, will not only help accumulate and make available the extensive material amassed over nearly a century of the Institute’s operation, but will also enable revisiting them using modern research techniques and methods.