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 Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space

Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space (FUDSS) is a multilingual cultural heritage infrastructure connecting museums, archives, libraries, community collections, music archives, photographs, films, and linguistic resources across Finno-Ugric communities. Built on Wikibase, Apache Jena Fuseki, Sampo-UI, and WikiMuseum technologies, it combines structured knowledge graphs, semantic browsing, virtual exhibitions, and linked open data services.

The platform enables the discovery, enrichment, and publication of tangible and intangible cultural heritage while supporting multilingual access, community participation, and interoperability with Wikimedia, Europeana, and the emerging European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH).

🌍 What is FUDSS?

FUDSS is a federated cultural heritage data space, a multi-layer cultural heritage infrastructure combining knowledge graphs, linked open data, semantic browsing, virtual exhibitions, and multilingual community curation.

A Wikibase knowledge graph containing structured descriptions of people, places, languages, artefacts, recordings, films, and cultural practices.
A Fuseki RDF triplestore supporting advanced SPARQL queries and linked open data publication.
A Sampo-UI semantic browser enabling exploratory search, filtering, visualisation, and contextual discovery.
WikiMuseum exhibitions presenting curated narratives built from the same underlying knowledge graph.
Multilingual lexicographic resources based on Wikibase Lexemes.
Connections to Wikimedia projects, Wikidata, Europeana, and ECCCH-aligned infrastructures.

For more context, see our graphical browser or subscribe to our blog or just check out our instagram account for a first impression. For a more professional, digital heritage-based presentation read our publication preprint, visit the project page or check out slide presentation.

Services

Cultural catalogue export and interoperability (Europeana, ECCCH, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, RDF and linked open data publication)
Co-curation of exhibitions and collections from dispersed heritage (e.g. Livonian, Seto, Mari and Udmurt cultural heritage)
Knowledge graph and namespace development for multilingual cultural heritage documentation
Metadata enrichment and semantic harmonisation of catalogues, inventories and collection databases
Publication of high-value datasets following FAIR, CARE and linked open data principles

Virtual exhibitions and semantic browsing interfaces using WikiMuseum and Sampo-style technologies

Multilingual lexicographic and terminology resources for endangered and minority languages
Rights-aware metadata repair and provenance reconstruction for heritage collections and audiovisual materials
Community-based heritage documentation and co-curation involving scholars, memory institutions and cultural communities
Heritage Digital Twin development for connecting tangible and intangible cultural heritage
Research infrastructure prototyping and data-space development for small and underrepresented cultural communities

🎵 Collections by Type

Databases

LīvMDb - the Livonian Music Database: a collection of musical works, songs, print music and sound recordings connected to the Livonian language or the Livonian Coast.

Musical Works

Explore works sung in Finno-Ugric languages or belonging to their musical traditions: Livonian • Mari • Finnish • Hungarian • Komi • Udmurt • Estonian • Erzya Moksha • Khanty Mansi • Samoyedic • Veps • Saami

Sound Recordings (Spotify Playlists)

Curated playlists of Finno-Ugric music—traditional and contemporary: Livonian • Mari • Finnish • Hungarian • Komi • Udmurt • Estonian • Erzya Moksha • Khanty Mansi • Samoyedic • Veps • Saami • Karelian

We are inviting new curators knowledgeable about the traditional or contemporary music of these communities.

📸 Photographs

Livonian Photography Collection (21st century):

Contemporary photographs under Creative Commons licenses, each tagged with ISCC codes for digital traceability.

Livonian Historical Photography Collection:

Historical photography focused on Livonian speakers in Northern Courland and the Livonian Coast.

Seto Historical Photography Collection:

Curated by Daniel Antal and Dr. Ieva Pigozne. Includes multilingual metadata and community annotations. May be used as a primary photographic collection, or as secondary source for other areas, including 🧵garments (see below.)

Where possible, we present both original and enhanced versions of images. Post-processing supports textile research and educational use without compromising historical integrity.

🧵 Garments

Traditional Livonian Clothing Collection:

Traditional garments worn by Livonians from from the Northern Kurzeme region (Latvia), showcasing weaving, color, and cut diversity.

Traditional Seto Clothing Collection:

Historical and ceremonial garments from Setomaa with detailed annotations. Includes primary sources (see kitasnik pinafore dress (STM SSM 782 E) and secondary sources (see the original ethnographic photograph Seto men in the village of Võmmorski in Setomaa municipality (ERM Fk 213:146) and the derivative work: Trousers of a Seto man in the village of Võmmorski in Setomaa municipality (detail))

🎬 Films

Finno-Ugric Film Database (Soome-Ugri Filmiandmebaas):

We are enhancing this foundational database with semantic metadata. Examples include:

Feature films

Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari: A Russian drama directed by Aleksei Fedorchenko, filmed in the Mari language and inspired by traditional folklore (2012).

Documentaries

Browse the documentary collection →

The Land of Love: A Nenets-language documentary by Liivo Niglas (2014).
Tõnis Day in Setumaal: An Estonian language television documentary by Maie Maasikas (1993).

Short films

Browse the short film collection →

The Afflicted Animal: A Northern Sámi short film by Egil Pedersen (2016).
To Speak is to Resist: A Komi-language short film by Taawetti Erkinpoika Myrskyvalkea (2024).

Newsreels & Archives

Browse the audiovisual archive collection →

🗣️ Language & Lexemes

Can machines understand dreams across languages?

English: dream
Hungarian: álom
Estonian: unenägu
Dutch: droom

By connecting senses of lexemes with their grammatical and semantic behavior, we model language-independent queries. See the Dream Playlist DHNB2025!

🧪 Try It, Change It

This is a sandbox for metadata innovation.

Test metadata enrichment on real items.
Experiment with multilingual reconnection.
Prototype governance workflows.

We invite GLAM institutions, researchers, and community curators to explore new models for cultural preservation.

> Real innovation comes not from new software—but from new participation.

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-[[File:Dreams DNBH2025 Poster.jpg|right|thumb|You can download our poster in high resolution on our [https://reprex.nl/event/2025-03-07_dreams/ event page].]]
+<strong>Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space (FUDSS) is a multilingual cultural heritage infrastructure connecting museums, archives, libraries, community collections, music archives, photographs, films, and linguistic resources across Finno-Ugric communities. Built on Wikibase, Apache Jena Fuseki, Sampo-UI, and WikiMuseum technologies, it combines structured knowledge graphs, semantic browsing, virtual exhibitions, and linked open data services.</strong>
+[[File:Finno Ugric Data Sharing Space example garments.png|center|800px|alt=Our collection is best view via our Sampo semantic browser via finnougric.net|Our collection is best view via our Sampo semantic browser via [https://finnougric.net/en/ finnougric.net].]]
+The platform enables the discovery, enrichment, and publication of tangible and intangible cultural heritage while supporting multilingual access, community participation, and interoperability with Wikimedia, Europeana, and the emerging European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH).
-<strong>We are building a trustworthy, AI-supported data-sharing space to connect tangible and intangible elements of the Finno-Ugric cultural universes—textiles, music, oral history, photography, and language. This platform explores legal, organizational, semantic, and technical challenges while offering new governance models for community-based digital curation.</strong>
+== 🌍 What is FUDSS? ==
-Rather than replicating established Wikipedia methods, we work with structured data tools like Wikibase, Lexemes, and SPARQL. Our approach centers multilinguality, shared custodianship, and the ability of communities—Võro, Seto, Livonian, Mari, and others—to describe their own heritage on their terms.
+FUDSS is a federated cultural heritage data space, a multi-layer cultural heritage infrastructure combining knowledge graphs, linked open data, semantic browsing, virtual exhibitions, and multilingual community curation.
-== 🌍 What is This Platform? ==
+* A Wikibase knowledge graph containing structured descriptions of people, places, languages, artefacts, recordings, films, and cultural practices.
+* A Fuseki RDF triplestore supporting advanced SPARQL queries and linked open data publication.
+* A Sampo-UI semantic browser enabling exploratory search, filtering, visualisation, and contextual discovery.
+* WikiMuseum exhibitions presenting curated narratives built from the same underlying knowledge graph.
+* Multilingual lexicographic resources based on Wikibase Lexemes.
+* Connections to Wikimedia projects, Wikidata, Europeana, and ECCCH-aligned infrastructures.
-This experimental knowledge graph helps small and endangered language communities:
+For more context, see our graphical browser or subscribe to our [https://open.substack.com/pub/finnougric/p/mari-clothing-heritage-across-collections?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web blog] or just check out our [https://www.instagram.com/finnougricnet/ instagram account] for a first impression. For a more professional, digital heritage-based presentation read our [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17938081 publication preprint], visit the [https://reprex.nl/project/finnougricdataspace/ project page] or check out [https://reprex.nl/slides/20250306_dreams/ slide presentation].
-* Document and connect culturally significant materials (songs, clothing, places, people).
+=== Services ===
-* Create multilingual, multimodal metadata in structured formats.
-* Model heritage semantically without needing full encyclopedic coverage.
-* Try new digital curation workflows in a low-risk, unaffiliated environment.
-The platform is not owned by any national institution and is open for scholars, curators, and communities to test metadata enrichment, federated linking, and feedback models that large systems rarely permit.
+[[File:D Antal collective-management-AI 11.png|center|800px|alt=We reconcile data and metadata across public institutions, community archives, and commercial platforms such as Spotify and YouTube. The same methods support rights clearance, provenance research, and multilingual discovery, enabling overlooked Finno-Ugric heritage—including Livonian and Latvian folk songs—to become visible and accessible to new audiences.|We reconcile data and metadata across public institutions, community archives, and commercial platforms such as Spotify and YouTube. The same methods support rights clearance, provenance research, and multilingual discovery, enabling overlooked Finno-Ugric heritage—including Livonian and Latvian folk songs—to become visible and accessible to new audiences.]]
-For more context, see our [https://reprex.nl/project/finnougricdataspace/ project page] or [https://reprex.nl/slides/20250306_dreams/ slide presentation].
+* '''Cultural catalogue export and interoperability''' (Europeana, ECCCH, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, RDF and linked open data publication)
+* '''Co-curation of exhibitions and collections from dispersed heritage''' (e.g. [https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:GLAM/Traditional_Livonian_Clothing/en/1 Livonian], [https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:GLAM/Traditional_Seto_Clothing Seto], [https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:GLAM/Traditional_Mari_Clothing_in_the_Collection_of_the_Estonian_National_Museum/en/1 Mari] and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Udmurt_ethnographic_clothing_from_museum_collections Udmurt] cultural heritage)
+* '''Knowledge graph and namespace development for multilingual cultural heritage documentation'''
+* '''Metadata enrichment and semantic harmonisation of catalogues''', inventories and collection databases
+* '''Publication of high-value datasets''' following FAIR, CARE and linked open data principles
+Virtual exhibitions and semantic browsing interfaces using WikiMuseum and Sampo-style technologies
+* '''Multilingual lexicographic and terminology resources''' for endangered and minority languages
+* '''Rights-aware metadata repair and provenance reconstruction''' for heritage collections and audiovisual materials
+* '''Community-based heritage documentation''' and co-curation involving scholars, memory institutions and cultural communities
+* '''Heritage Digital Twin''' development for connecting tangible and intangible cultural heritage
+* Research infrastructure prototyping and data-space development for small and underrepresented cultural communities
 == 🎵 Collections by Type ==
+Databases
+LīvMDb - the [[Item:Q4747|Livonian Music Database]]: a collection of musical works, songs, print music and sound recordings connected to the Livonian language or the Livonian Coast.
 === Musical Works ===
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 === Sound Recordings (Spotify Playlists) ===
 Curated playlists of Finno-Ugric music—traditional and contemporary:
-[[Item:Q193|Livonian]] • [[Item:Q2835|Mari]] • [[Item:Q3769|Finnish]] • [[Item:Q3720|Hungarian]] • [[Item:Q2497|Komi]] • [[Item:Q3089|Udmurt]] • [[Item:Q3679|Estonian]] • [[Item:Q2631|Erzya Moksha]] • [[Item:Q117|Khanty Mansi]] • [[Item:Q118|Samoyedic]] • [[Item:Q265|Veps]] • [[Item:Q323|Saami]]
+[[Item:Q193|Livonian]] • [[Item:Q2835|Mari]] • [[Item:Q3769|Finnish]] • [[Item:Q3720|Hungarian]] • [[Item:Q2497|Komi]] • [[Item:Q3089|Udmurt]] • [[Item:Q3679|Estonian]] • [[Item:Q2631|Erzya Moksha]] • [[Item:Q117|Khanty Mansi]] • [[Item:Q118|Samoyedic]] • [[Item:Q265|Veps]] • [[Item:Q323|Saami]] • [[Item:Q6775|Karelian]]
 ''We are inviting new curators knowledgeable about the traditional or contemporary music of these communities.''
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 Contemporary photographs under Creative Commons licenses, each tagged with ISCC codes for digital traceability.
-* '''[[Item:Q3906|Seto Historical Photography Collection]]''':
+* '''[[Item:Q4665|Livonian Historical Photography Collection]]''':
-Curated by Daniel Antal and Dr. Ieva Pigozne. Includes multilingual metadata and community annotations.
+Historical photography focused on Livonian speakers in Northern Courland and the Livonian Coast.
+* '''[[Seto Historical Photography Collection]]''':
+Curated by Daniel Antal and Dr. Ieva Pigozne. Includes multilingual metadata and community annotations. May be used as a primary photographic collection, or as secondary source for other areas, including 🧵''garments'' (see below.)
 Where possible, we present both original and enhanced versions of images. Post-processing supports textile research and educational use without compromising historical integrity.
 == 🧵 Garments ==
+[[File:FUDS Q4633 preview.jpg|thumb|[[Item:Q4633|Seto female festive shirt (SU4106:97)]]]]
-* '''[[Item:Q1099|Kurzeme Region Dress History Collection]]''':
+* '''[[Item:Q1099|Traditional Livonian Clothing Collection]]''':
 Traditional garments worn by Livonians from from the Northern Kurzeme region (Latvia), showcasing weaving, color, and cut diversity.
-* '''[[Seto Garment Collection]]''':
+* '''[[Traditional Seto Clothing Collection]]''':
 Historical and ceremonial garments from Setomaa with detailed annotations. Includes primary sources (see [[Item:Q4370| kitasnik pinafore dress (STM SSM 782 E)]] and secondary sources (see the original ethnographic photograph [[Item:Q4044|Seto men in the village of Võmmorski in Setomaa municipality (ERM Fk 213:146)]] and the derivative work: [[Item:Q4051|Trousers of a Seto man in the village of Võmmorski in Setomaa municipality (detail)]])
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 == 🧭 Start Here ==
+[[File:Dreams DNBH2025 Poster.jpg|right|thumb|You can download our poster in high resolution on our [https://reprex.nl/event/2025-03-07_dreams/ event page].]]
 * [https://reprex.nl/project/finnougricdataspace/ Project Overview]
-* [https://reprex.nl/project/finnougricdataspace/ Digital Dreams And Practices-DNBH 2025 presentation]
+* [https://reprex.nl/project/finnougricdataspace/ Digital Dreams And Practices-DNBH 2025 presentation]  and [https://reprex.nl/slides/20250306_dreams/ Slide Presentation]
-* [https://reprex.nl/slides/20250306_dreams/ Slide Presentation]
 * [[mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ|MediaWiki FAQ]]
 * [[Special:Search|Search the database]]
 * [[Special:AllPages|Explore all items]]