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We started experimenting with the legal, organisational, semantic and technical challenges of creating a genuinely trustworthy, AI-supported data-sharing space that can find and connect tangible and intangible elements of the Finno-Ugric cultural universes. We were also seeking a better governance model for oversight for the custodians of these endangered, shrinking universes in their language and with little technical knowledge, partly as alternatives to the established Wikipedia to the open knowledge incubation method for small linguistic minorities. See further details on the project description page.

Collections

Musical works

The following collections contain musical works that are almost always sung in the given language, in some cases, they belong to the musical tradition of these communities without lyrics.

Khanty Mansi Musical Works Collection; Samoyedic Musical Works Collection; Livonian Musical Works Collection; Veps Musical Works Collection ;Saami Musical Works Collection; Komi Musical Works Collection; Hungarian Musical Works Collection; Finnish Musical Works Collection; Mari Musical Works Collection; Udmurt Musical Works Collection; Estonian Musical Works Collection; Erzya Moksha Musical Works Collection

Sound recordings

The following collections as playlist contain sound recordings of the musical works, you can listen to them on Spotify. We will keep adding other listening options on YouTube, Bandcamp or other licensed players. Khanti Mansi Playlist; Samoyedic Playlist; Livonian Playlist; Veps Playlist; Saami Playlist; Hungarian Playlist; Finnish Playlist; Mari Playlist; Udmurt Playlist; Estonian Playlist; Komi Playlist; Erzya Moksha Playlist.

• We are inviting new curators knowledgeable about the traditional or contemporary music of these peoples and languages.

Photographs

The mission of the collection is to connect historical and contemporary photographs in various private and public collections.

• Livonian Photography Collection (21st century): contemporary photography collection, available with a CC license on Wikimedia Commons.The photographs are identified with the new ISO standard ISCC coded (Livonian Photography Collection (21st century; database link).
• Seto Historical Photography Collection: The virtual collection of the Finno-ugric Dataspace about the culture of Setomaa and the Seto people. In the database, the collection page is Seto Historical Photography Collection (database). The collection is curated by Daniel Antal and Ieva Pigozne; we are inviting new curators familiar with Setomaa or the culture of the Seto people.
• We are inviting new curators knowledgeable about the cultural regions, landscapes, cultures and languages of our collections, currently focusing on the Seto, Liv, Võru, Mari and Udmurt peoples.
• In some cases, we provide the original (digitised) items from the original holding collection together with derivate works. The derivate works may include digital retouching and postprocessing to make the photograph more usable as a historical source. In such cases, we make corrections that a contemporary photographer would have done, like removing physical damages on the photographic material, the print, or correcting the overblown highlights or underexposed shadows. Such changes make, for example, the original patterns of a garment more visible for textile research. Sometimes we may crop an original (depicted) item of interest, for example, a detail of a particular garment worn by a figure in the original picture.
• In some cases, we appy an improved sharpening mask of the photograph, or slight exposure correction. Such changes are not considered as derivate work, they are part of a postprocessing process that museum archivists often do not have the equipment or time for. These changes provide a more faithful representation of the historical photographic artifact as they were photographed by the museum.

Garments

• Kurzeme Region Dress History Collection
• Seto Garment Collection - a collection of textiles and garments from Seetoma, historical and contemporary sources.

Films

Finno-Ugric Film Database - a database of Finno-Ugric films, we have just started the reprocessing and enrichment of this database

The collection contains films by Finno-Ugric creators or films in Finno-Ugric languages. Most of these films are part of the Finno-Ugric Film Database (Soome-Ugri Filmiandmebaas) which belongs to the Finno-Ugric-Film-Foundation.

Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari

The land of love

The Afflicted Animal

Linguistics (Lexeme)

A playlist curated by Hõimulõimed with songs in the Dream Playlist Dhnb by Hõimulõimed in various Finno-Ugric languages

The concept of a dream is independent from languages, in the sense "imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping" it can be expressed with the English dream, the Hungarian álom or the Estonian unenägu or the Dutch droom nouns. These lexemes behave differently. In Dutch, they it has a masculine grammatical gender. The Hungarian and Estonian lexemes change their forms when you say in your dream. The identification of a dream as a subject of a song lyrics requires the understanding how dream becomes dreams in English, dromen in Dutch, and álmok in Hungarian. If you want to describe the lyrics in statements, you must know that *álmodban* is a form of álom, which refers translates to *in your dream*, i.e., expressing both an adjective and clarifying the owner of the subject, too.

Connecting the senses of lexemes with their translations, we can carry out language independent queries for songs that are about dreams. See our Dream Playlist DHNB2025!

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