cultural history
subject field
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Literary Network of the National Awakening Based on the Correspondence of Koidula and Kreutzwald
This workflow was created to analyse the correspondence between Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald and Lydia Koidula from the years 1867–1873 and to map which people appear most frequently in the literary network of the National Awakening on the basis of these letters. The correspondence is one of the most important sources in Estonian literary history, reflecting the development of the national movement, cultural contacts, and relationships between authors. The workflow makes it possible to automatically identify personal names in a text corpus, clean and standardise name forms, and...
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Past Lives in Estonian Cultural Data – Developing Interactive Exhibits with 19th Century Parish Court Records and Bibliographical Data
The workflow addresses how 19th-century Estonian parish court records and bibliographical data can be transformed into interactive digital exhibits for the general public. Although these datasets contain rich historical and cultural elements, they are not immediately accessible to non-specialist audiences in their original structured forms. The workflow therefore explores how cultural heritage data can be cleaned, extracted, linked, and redesigned as interactive applications....