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.
Full literary works (e-text, pdf, facsimile) in selected editions provided with scientific commentary and additional secondary materials; both copyright-free older works (still the lion's share) and new works (by licensing agreement with IPR holders' organizations); appr. 150 titles; planned to grow by 80-100 titles annually
The Netherlands Veterans Institute (VI) hosts about 250 interviews (audio) in which Dutch former military personel speak about their experiences during World War II (interviews about the years 1935-1945) and decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies (1945-1950) and Dutch New Guinea (1960-1962). In the project Living Oral History Workbench these interviews have been indexed by automatic speech recognition techniques. The list of interviews and their metadata are available at the CLARIN Center; researchers may apply to VI for access to the data.
Searchable multilingual text collection (700+ mwd) and a dictionary database of 251 languages and dialects. The Dictionary (ca. 8 mwd) provides translation of a word, definition, grammar, synonym, antonym, image, pronunciation, etc.