https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3734-1514
E-mail: zolotova_tatiana@mail.ru Tel.: +7 (8362) 68-80-02
1, Lenin sq., Yoshkar-Ola, 424000, Russian Federation
DSc in Philology, Professor, Department of Russian Language, Literature and Journalism, Mari State University
Ekaterina A. Plotnikova
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7798-5237
E-mail: kati_miracle@mail.ru Tel.: +7 (8362) 68-80-02
1, Lenin sq., Yoshkar-Ola, 424000, Russian Federation
PhD in Philology, Docent, Department of Russian Language, Literature and Journalism, Mari State University
Expeditions for collecting Russian folklore, including family folklore, have been conducted in the Republic of Mari El since the 1970s. This has resulted in the accumulation of significant material, both in quantity and quality, which urgently requires systematization and transfer to electronic media. At the turn of the twenty-first century, staff members at Mari State University created the first databases and virtual museums of folklore: the electronic folklore resource “Folklore of Vyatka Settlers: Tradition and Modernity”; two virtual museums: “Folklore of the Yurinsky Region of the Republic of Mari El” and “Folklore of the Gornomariysky Region of the Republic of Mari El”; and the website “Network Pedagogical Workshop as a Form of Popularizing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Republic of Mari El.” Each project has its own specificity, yet they share some approaches to the design of the collections. Ritual folklore is presented in the form of so-called “composite descriptions,” formed like hypertext: the main text (ethnographic description) of the ritual with options to further describe certain aspects of them, such as their designations and the individual functions of the participants; details about interiors and costumes; texts (with variations); musical transcriptions, and audio and video reproductions. Features are designed to attract a variety of users to the digital folklore archives of Mari State University and to enhance their usability and appeal, including animations and games. To preserve these electronic folklore resources and museums, they are currently hosted on a new digital platform, described in this article. The authors frame the issues within the broader discussion of preserving both paper and digital folklore archives in the Russian Federation
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Efimova N. I., Zolotova T. A., Plotnikova E. A., Toktarova V. I. (2017) Fol’klornyi arkhiv MaRGU: novye formy prezentatsii materiala [The Folklore Archive of MarGU: New Forms of Presenting Material]. Vestnik Mariiskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Bulletin of the Mari State University]. 2017. Vol. 27. No. 3. Pp. 149–151. In Russian.
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Zolotova T. A., Sabitov S. S. (2003) Osnovnye napravleniya v izuchenii traditsionnoi kul’tury narodov Respubliki Marii El [The Main Directions in the Study of Traditional Culture of the Peoples of the Republic of Mari El]. Traditsionnaya kul’tura [Traditional Culture]. 2003. Vol. 4. No. 3 (11). Pp. 55–59. In Russian.
Zolotova T. A., Efimova N. I., Plotnikova E. A. (2018) Sovremennye formy khraneniya i prezentatsii regional’nogo fol’klornogo materiala [Modern Forms of Storage and Presentation of Regional Folklore Material]. Traditsionnaya kul’tura [Traditional Culture]. 2018. Vol. 19. No. 5. Pp. 252–266. In Russian.
Zolotova T. A., Efimova N. I., Plotnikova E. A. (2019) Traditsii russkogo fol’klora Respubliki Marii El (na materiale narodnogo kalendarya vyatskikh pereselentsev [Traditions of Russian Folklore of the Mari El Republic (Based on the Folk Calendar of Vyatka Settlers)]. Traditsionnaya kul’tura [Traditional Culture]. 2019. Vol. 20. No. 5. Pp. 35–52. In Russian.
Zolotova T. A., Plotnikova E. A. (2021) Zhivye legendy: portrety trekh ispolnitelei russkoi traditsionnoi kul’tury i fol’klora respubliki Marii El (V. A. Kislova, A. K. Ermicheva, E. S. Merkur’eva) [Living Legends: Portraits of Three Performers of Russian Traditional Culture and Folklore of the Republic of Mari El (V. A. Kislova, A. K. Ermicheva, E. S. Merkuryeva)]. In: Russkaya traditsionnaya kul’tura segodnya: ekspeditsionnye i arkhivnye otkrytiya [Russian Traditional Culture Today: Expeditionary and Archival Discoveries]. Materials of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “Traditional Russian Culture and Folklore Today. Expeditionary and Archival Discoveries” (Ulyanovsk, October 30, [Electronic resource]. Collection of 2021). articles. Ul’yanovsk: OGBUK “TSNK”; FGBOU VO “ULGPU im. I. N. Ul’yanova”. Pp. 84–91. 1 electron. opt. disc (CD-ROM). In Russian.
Zolotova T. A., Plotnikova E. A. Family Rituals and Folklore of the Russian Peoples of Mari El: The Experience of and Prospects for Digitization. Traditional Culture. 2024. Vol. 25. No. 4. Pp. 70–79. In Russian.