https://danielantal.eu/category/magyarul/magyarulWowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-usWed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200https://danielantal.eu/media/icon_hub9491570ac57158c0eeecc95c95b13e5_20247_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_3.pnghttps://danielantal.eu/category/magyarul/https://danielantal.eu/event/2026-05-27-pont-forditva/Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200https://danielantal.eu/event/2026-05-27-pont-forditva/<div class="alert alert-note"> <div> <p>This presentation explores how multilingual knowledge graphs, translation, and metadata repair can reconnect dispersed Finno-Ugric cultural heritage collections with the communities to whom they belong.</p> <p>Using the Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space, the talk demonstrates how Wikibase-based infrastructures can improve archival visibility, semantic interoperability, and community participation across ethnographic and linguistic collections.</p> </div> </div> <h3 id="key-ideas">Key Ideas</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Translation as archival infrastructure:</strong> translation is not only linguistic conversion, but a form of metadata repair and cultural interpretation.</li> <li><strong>Metadata enrichment:</strong> multilingual thesauri, controlled vocabularies, and linked identifiers make fragmented collections searchable and reusable.</li> <li><strong>Community participation:</strong> endangered language communities can help interpret, validate, and correct historical archival descriptions.</li> <li><strong>Knowledge graph federation:</strong> dispersed collections across museums, libraries, and archives can be virtually reunited through interoperable infrastructures.</li> </ul> <h3 id="examples">Examples</h3> <ul> <li>The <strong>Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space</strong> connects materials related to Mari, Seto, Võro, Udmurt, and Moldavian Csángó communities across multiple institutional collections.</li> <li>Historical ethnographic collections often contain outdated transcription systems, inconsistent naming conventions, or descriptions inaccessible to present-day communities and researchers.</li> <li>The presentation discusses how the dispersed legacy of researchers such as <strong>János Jankó</strong> and <strong>Aladár Bán</strong> can be reconnected across Hungarian, Estonian, and Finnish collections through multilingual metadata harmonisation.</li> </ul> <!--- <figure id="figure-translation-metadata-enrichment-and-multilingual-controlled-vocabularies-can-reconnect-fragmented-archival-collections-with-living-cultural-communities-and-contemporary-research-infrastructures"> <div class="d-flex justify-content-center"> <div class="w-100" ><img src="https://danielantal.eu/png/fudss/fudss_translation_metadata.png" alt="Translation, metadata enrichment, and multilingual controlled vocabularies can reconnect fragmented archival collections with living cultural communities and contemporary research infrastructures." loading="lazy" data-zoomable /></div> </div><figcaption> Translation, metadata enrichment, and multilingual controlled vocabularies can reconnect fragmented archival collections with living cultural communities and contemporary research infrastructures. </figcaption></figure> ---> <h3 id="next-steps">Next Steps</h3> <ul> <li>Expand multilingual lexicons and controlled vocabularies for Finno-Ugric cultural heritage.</li> <li>Improve interoperability between Wikibase, Wikimedia Commons, and institutional catalogues.</li> <li>Develop community-based workflows for metadata correction and annotation.</li> <li>Support machine-readable archival descriptions that remain understandable to both experts and source communities.</li> </ul> <h3 id="related-publication">Related Publication</h3> <p><em>Federating Open Knowledge through Wikibase: The Case of The Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space</em></p>