Workshop "Opening the Trilogy: Folklore Taxonomies & Annotated Texts for Reproducible Research"

On June 20, within the framework of the Congress of the International Society for Research on Folklore Narratives (https://en.lfk.lv/isfnr2024), a digitalhumanities.lv workshop will take place at the House of Nature of the Academic Centre of the University of Latvia, in collaboration with CLARIN-LV and DARIAH-EU. It will be moderated by independent researcher Joshua Hagedorn (USA). The hands-on workshop will be particularly useful for folklore researchers and will focus on working with text corpora.

Participants will be expected to participate actively, so a laptop and advance preparation by installing the necessary software will be required. No prior knowledge is required for this workshop.

The hands-on workshop will be held in person in English only.

Workshop title: "Opening the Trilogy: Folklore Taxonomies & Annotated Texts for Reproducible Research"

Description:

Understanding the basic elements of folk narrative (i.e. motifs and motif-sequences) has historically been done using documents or privately-maintained datasets. In order to enable research replication and machine learning applications, a common repository of taxonomic data and text corpora is needed. We developed the Trilogy repository to serve this purpose for folklore researchers in the digital humanities.  At the end of the workshop session, attendees will be able to:

• Explain the data assets which make up the Trilogy (i.e. TMI, ATU, AFT) and how they relate to one another.
• Identify potential uses of the repository for analysis.
• Access and query the annotated folktale corpus and related taxonomic data using open source data science tools (i.e. R/RStudio).
• Create a pipeline using Trilogy data assets to conduct novel, reproducible research.
• Collectively grow these open-source resources by contributing fixes, extensions and/or annotated texts.

Instructions for participants on how to prepare for the workshop: https://github.com/j-hagedorn/trilogy_workshop

Venue: Academic Centre of the University of Latvia, House of Nature, Dextrum I Auditorium (Jelgavas street 1, Riga).

Workshop schedule:

Part 1: 10:30-12:30
Part 2: 13:40-15:40

Registration: https://forms.gle/MFFqYEb52BSWWLis8

Josh is an independent scholar, poet and data scientist living in Michigan (US). His recent research interests have focused on patterns of motifs in folktales.  

In his professional career, Josh serves as Chief Knowledge Officer for a consultancy focusing in healthcare and analytics.  Samples of his creative work can be found at j-hagedorn.com

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The workshop is organized in the framework of the 19th ISFNR Congress "Folk Narratives in the Changing World" and with the support of the project “Towards Development of Open and FAIR Digital Humanities Ecosystem in Latvia” (VPP-IZM-DH-2022/1-0002).