The lifestory is a source for qualitative research. The most basic component of the collection is the written or recorded document of personal history, a short or lengthy story of a person's life and observations. National Oral History Project (Nacionālās mutvārdu vēstures projekts (NMV)) has been financed by the Science Council of Latvia (Latvijas Zinātnes Padome) since 1992. Its approach is multidisciplinary, employing sociological and philosophical theories in particular.
1970s "representative" corpus of German created by the research group "Linguistik und Maschinelle Sprachbearbeitung" (linguistics and language processing); Zeitschnittkorpus der deutschen Schriftsprache von 1970; Querschnitt durch verschiedene Textsorten
One of the goals of LINDAT/CLARIN Centre for Language Research Infrastructure is to provide technical background to institutions or researchers who wants to share their tools and data used for research in linguistics or related research fields. The digital repository is built on a highly customised DSpace platform. and LM2010013 - FULLY SUPPORTED BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SPORTS AND YOUTH OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
The dictionary is based on Lithuanian-Latvian dictionary (1995) by Jons Balkevičs, Laimute Balode, Apolonija Bojāte, Valters Subatnieks, ed. by Alberts Sarkanis. It contains ca. 60 00 lexical entries, inclusion of morphlogical analysis tools allows search for word forms.