Corpus of Latvian Autobiographies

  Authors

Reinsone, Sanita ; Matulis, Haralds ; Ļaksa-Timinska, Ilze and Žvarte, Elvīra

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12574/145

 Project URL

https://garamantas.lv/lv/repository/1115628/Autobiografiju-krajums

 Demo URL

https://nosketch.korpuss.lv/#dashboard?corpname=autobio

 Date issued

2025-07-07

 Type

corpus, text

 Size

2669931 tokens

 Language(s)

Latvian

 Description

The corpus consists of 74 unpublished autobiographies, life stories, and memoirs in Latvian, written between 1900 and 2024. All materials have been collected, digitised, and are preserved in the Autobiography Collection of the Archives of Latvian Folklore, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia. The corpus has been created in collaboration with the University of Latvia Digital Humanities Centre. The Autobiography Collection, established in 2018, brings together materials written by individuals across different periods to document their personal experiences and the historical contexts of their lives. The collection primarily includes diaries, written life stories, memoirs, and correspondence, supplemented by contextual materials such as photographs, interviews with authors, and accounts provided by their relatives. Part of the collection, including manuscript files, metadata, and transcriptions, is publicly accessible through the digital platform garamantas.lv (see Repositories → Autobiography Collection).

 Publisher

Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia

 

Digital Humanities Center of the University of Latvia

 Acknowledgement

EU Recovery and Resilience Facility

Project code: 2.3.1.1.i.0/1/22/I/CFLA/002

Project name: Language Technology Initiative

 

Latvian Council of Science

Project code: lzp-2018/1-0073

Project name: Documenting the Self: Innovation in Knowledge and Interpretative Models of Written Self-Narratives (eWING)

 Subject(s)

biography text corpus life writing autobiography life story memoirs

 Collection(s)

Humanities and Cultural Heritage Resources of ILFA UL

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