Project: FIN-CLARIAH
Grant agreement: Academy of Finland no. 358720
Start date: 01-01-2024
Duration: 24 months
WP 2.1: Data collection for minority languages
Date of reporting: 26-09-2024
Report authors: Martin Matthiesen (CSC)
Contributors: Wilhelmina Dyster (UH), Sjur Moshagen, Katri Hiovain-Asikainen (UiT)
Deliverable location: n/a
Keywords for the deliverable page: Finland-Swedish, Sámi
In this workpackage two minority languages are collected: Swedish spoken in Finland and Sámi languages spoken in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Data collected during the Donera Prat campaign[1] is currently manually transliterated. This work is expected to be ready by November 2024. The planned release date for the data for research is January 2025.
The data collection for Sámi languages is focusing on the broadcasting companies in the Nordic Countries (NRK[2], SVT[3], YLE[4]) where they are spoken and the University of Tromsø. The national broadcasters already have some of their Sámi data subtitled in a Sámi language and their respective national languages, making it a valuable resource for research.
We achieved a general understanding that the Language Bank of Finland can serve as the main sharing organisation for Sámi data and we already did test transfers of data from SVT and Tromsø. YLE’s Sámi data is available via KAVI[5]. Before the data can be shared via the Language Bank of Finland, we need to overcome technical and legal hurdles. While on the technical side we already reached broad agreement and will for example, share the data from the various sources with no or little changes, and KAVI and Aalto University already have experience in collaborating using the LUMI supercomputer, the legal side seems to be a bigger challenge. NRK, SVT and YLE are currently investigating legal implications of sharing their data via the Finnish Language Bank.
[1] Donera Prat https://svenska.yle.fi/a/7-10009203
[2] Norwegian Television: https://www.nrk.no/about/
[3] Swedish Television: https://omoss.svt.se/about-svt.html
[4] Finnish Television: https://yle.fi/aihe/about-yle
[5] The Finnish National Audio Visual Institute, https://kavi.fi/en/
