{"title":"The Collection of Hungarian Traditional Games","authors":"Katalin Lázár","doi":"10.7592/fejf2023.91.lazar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/fejf2023.91.lazar","url":null,"abstract":"In the first half of the twentieth century, the collection of Hungarian traditional games was housed in the archives of the department of folk music of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Folk music researchers published the first volume of the Corpus Musicae Popularis Hungaricae I, with the title Children’s Games, containing 1,162 songs from traditional games. As Zoltán Kodály, world-famous folk musicologist, wrote in the preface of the volume, the publication of the volume marked the beginning of the work, not the end of it. Further work has verified this. The type system of traditional games was completed in the 1980s, and contained all kinds of games. It was developed on the basis of Hungarian traditional games although it is also suitable for systematising the traditional games of other European peoples. The article exemplifies a decades-long journey of a collection from an analogue format to a database.","PeriodicalId":505741,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139189181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performing an Archive: Aims, Interests, Ideologies and Expectations","authors":"M. Sarv, Ave Goršič, Risto Järv","doi":"10.7592/fejf2023.91.introduction","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7592/fejf2023.91.introduction","url":null,"abstract":"Public archives are repositories of human memory and history, which collect, preserve, and provide access to the records and documents creating a bridge between the past, present, and future. Archives are dynamic structures that can be interpreted as knowledge hubs, with channels of information flowing in them, activities performed within the “black box” of the institution invisible for outsiders, and channels to disseminate information for groups that they serve. These channels develop and are designed under the impact of several factors. In this article we present six factors that have shaped the development and functioning of the Estonian Folklore Archives. We first illustrate the impact of these factors, browsing through the historical periods of Estonian folkloristics. Successively, the articles of the current volume on various aspects of tradition archives are introduced and presented within the framework of the hub conception, and the relevant impact factors are highlighted. The article demonstrates that ideological framework, public expectations, institutional status, research paradigms, individual incentives of the people in charge, and (developments in) technological equipment constantly shape the content and operation of tradition archives in various time periods and circumstances.","PeriodicalId":505741,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore","volume":"5 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139191172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}