Implementation of information technology in the field of intangible ethnological and folklore heritage

The goal of the research project is:

1. Urgent revitalization of sound and film records on intangible cultural heritage that are kept at the ISE SRC SASA.

2. To make all the material accessible to researchers with various methodological and thematic orientations.

3. To conduct a study to design a unified classification scheme in ethnology and folklore studies.

4. Digitization and the online publication of documentation (including visual documentation) in an interconnected database will be an invaluable resource for the study of the continuity of Slovenian identity beyond the field of study as well.

5. Examples for a more detailed classification will be gathered

a) From specific archive material;

b) From the selected themes of Slovenian culture along the Slovenian border and beyond the borders of Slovenia.

We expect that the connectedness of the databases and the effort to publish examples will open a new view on intangible heritage, especially from the viewpoint of the connectedness of various levels of cultural manifestation. The ethnological and folklore conceptualization of this issue and the associated research methodology try to show how cultural phenomena are intertwined and form a network. Modern information technology can help a great deal here. The focus of the research project is to improve and expand the methodological apparatus. The researchers will check the methodological foundation and research methods to date from the viewpoint of the planned implementation of information technology. We anticipate that the collection methods and documentation of material with the help of modern technical tools, along with an improved classification, will enable a better quality design of collections and interconnectedness of various thematic areas and types of material. On the basis of theoretically established classification, the planned implementation of information technology in the field of cultural heritage will enable the collected material to be more comprehensive. It will also make possible points of departure for its future management as well as greater internal coherence and opportunities for interdisciplinary research.