Short Abstract:

In addition to containing five or six lectures on individual projects, the plan is for these sessions (potentially two) to end with a 20 minute roundtable in which participants can discuss potential ways of working together and keeping these new digital archives both alive and accessible.

Long Abstract:

In the last two decades, just as the many archives (particularly those dealing with folkloristic materials) were on the edge of being consigned to the cellar or the rubbish tip, the process of digitalisation can be said to have reopened the doors to this material, not only making it more accessible to both scholars and the public, but also allowing the possibility to utilise a wide range of interconnections that offer new understandings of the material in question, and simultaneously raise important new questions. The aim of this session to to introduce a number of the recent digital projects relating to folklore and ethnology that have come into being in the Nordic countries over the last 20 years, noting the ways in which these projects have been developing, and underlining how they can potentially interconnect with each other.