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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.

🎵 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

Connecting past and present through photographic metadata.

• 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

Seto female festive shirt (SU4106:97)

• 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

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

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.

🧭 Start Here

You can download our poster in high resolution on our event page.

• Project Overview
• Digital Dreams And Practices-DNBH 2025 presentation and Slide Presentation
• MediaWiki FAQ
• Search the database
• Explore all items