During the next two to three weeks, I will post regularly on the #NorKorr #NorwegianCorrespondences weblog. I'm on research leave and working on finishing a paper I presented last summer at a conference.
Follow along and perhaps learn something new or interesting about Norway, letters, migration, and data.
https://norkorr.hypotheses.org/527
So Many Names!

From America to Norway We are currently working on a paper based on the presentation on American Letters and Authority Data for the common people, held in June at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In order to flesh out the paper, we are creating a Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format (CMIF) file based on the letters … Continue reading So Many Names!

NorKorr – Norwegian Correspondences

As part of my summer wrap-up, I am writing a blog post about my recent trip to Berlin, where I gave a talk at the Briefkulturen conference. I looked into the challenges of authority data for common people in the context of the #NorKorr #NorwegianCorrespondences project.

The post became a blend of conference report and some ideas I had developed for the talk.

Read the blog post (eng) on the NorKorr weblog: https://norkorr.hypotheses.org/364.

Read the talk (ger) on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/15680957.

Letter Cultures – Briefkulturen – Brevkulturer. NorKorr presents the America Letters in Berlin

Conference report about the international conference "Letter Cultures" held in Berlin, June 16th to 17th, and future ideas about enriching NorKorr metadata with authority data on common people retrieved from the Norwegian Historical Population Register.

NorKorr – Norwegian Correspondences

First time today giving a talk at a conference after a 14-month hiatus.
I am overprepared, but feel like it's my first presentation whatsoever!

I will discuss niche topics with a focus on Norway, such as letters & correspondence, metadata, authority data, & the mass migration of Norwegian settlers to the Americas during the C19th.

The talk is in German, with English slides. You can get both the script and the slides fresh from Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15647974.
#NorKorr #Correspondences #CMIF

Farvel og skriv snart! Die kleinen Leute und ihre Briefe Herausforderungen und Chancen einer Bereitstellung von verlinkten offenen Normdaten für alle

In meinem Vortrag "Farvel og skriv snart! Einfache Leute und ihre Briefe: Herausforderungen und Chancen einer Bereitstellung von verlinkten offenen Normdaten für alle" werde ich die digitalen Möglichkeiten zur Erschließung und Vernetzung der sogenannten "Amerikabriefe" norwegischer Auswanderer im 19. Jahrhundert thematisieren. Die 7-bändige Sammlung "Fra Amerika til Norge" dient als Grundlage für die Analyse, wobei der Fokus auf der Aufbereitung der Briefmetadaten (Absender, Empfänger, zeitliche und räumliche Angaben) liegt. Ziel ist es, zu demonstrieren, wie diese Metadaten über das Historische Bevölkerungsregister (HBR) mit internationalen Autoritätsdaten verknüpft werden können, um den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs zu bereichern. Durch die Anwendung des Correspondence Metadata Interchange Formats (CMIF) wird aufgezeigt, wie Permalinks und Metadaten im CorrespSearch-Suchdienst aufbereitet werden können. Während der Vortrag größtenteils auf die methodische Aufbereitung fokussiert ist, wird auch ein Kontext zu den sozialen und kulturellen Aspekten der norwegischen Auswanderung skizziert, insbesondere im Hinblick auf den 200. Jahrestag dieser Migration. Der Schwerpunkt auf den "einfachen Leuten" eröffnet neue Forschungsperspektiven und zielt darauf ab, das öffentliche Bewusstsein für die historische Relevanz der Briefe zu schärfen.

Zenodo
Today, I visited #NorskRegnesentral #NorwegianComputingCentre, co-located with the #UniversityOslo in the science park.
They created the Norwegian Historical Population Register #HistReg, which establishes #AuthorityData for Norwegian persons from 1800 onwards. https://histreg.no/index.php/home
I will use HistReg in the #NorwegianCorrespondences #NorKorr project, where we collect metadata of letters in the Correspondence Metadata Interchange Format #CMIF for integration into the @correspSearch service.
HBR - Forside

#NorKorr, the Norwegian Correspondences project, is planning to host a #CMIF #CorrespondenceMetadataInterchangeFormat generator challenge. We want to add all the letters from Norwegian emigrants of the Americas to their families back home to the @correspSearch service. Read the short description and stay tuned for more updates on our project blog: https://norkorr.hypotheses.org/343
200 Years Letters from America

During a visit to the National Archives of Norway near beautiful Sognsvann Lake, I was gifted six out of the seven volumes of the Norwegian correspondence edition “Fra Amerika til Norge – i Norske utvandrerbrev 1838-1914”, letters from America to Norway—Norwegian emigrants’ letters 1838-1914 edited by Orm Øverland and Steinar Kjærheim. The emigrants’ letters are … Continue reading 200 Years Letters from America

NorKorr – Norwegian Correspondences
Tiny follow-up: my application for 20% research time for 2024 was accepted!! I will continue w/ the #NorKorr #EdvardMunch #Correspondence project, i.e. publish the Data Paper & start a larger study on mapping #DigitalScholarlyEditions at the #UniOslo & greater Oslo area! Excited!!
I will also continue working on preparing the Danish #EthicaComplementoria for publication; I have some funds for an assistant to help with creating a proper #TEI document based on #Transkribus transcription.
Good morning! It looks like today is my last work day this year, not by choice, but by Covid, which now has befallen yet another family member...
Anyways! Thanks for listening in on my ramblings about #ResearchSupportPartnershipUiO, #EthicaComplementoria and #NorKorr. I promise some cool stuff for 2024 and frequent posts with a new hashtag #BærUt #SustainableDSEs
Seasonal greetings and a happy new year. Back in #January!
🆕 #NorKorr #NorwegianCorrespondences news: Dataset with correspondence metadata of 8527 letters ✉️ from the #EdvardMunch #DigitalScholarlyEdition has been published and archived on the #UniOslo data repository, Dataverse.no
✍️ Blog post: https://norkorr.hypotheses.org/337
💽 Dataset: https://doi.org/10.18710/TAFUSV
#CCo #PublicDomain #CMIF
Dataset with metadata of 8.527 letters published!

A dataset containing correspondence metadata of 8527 letters from the Edvard Munch digital edition has been archived on the University of Oslo institutional repository Dataverse.no.

NorKorr – Norwegian Correspondences
There it is 🎉 🙌 ! The #EdvardMunch correspondence metadata dataset for #NorKorr incl. metadata from 8.527 letters to and from Munch, harvested from the eMunch.no #DigitalScholarlyEdition and enriched w/ #VIAF #Wikidata #Geonames authority data.
We are so happy!
Check it out, download it, play around, and do whatever you want! Available on the #UniOslo repository Dataverse.no at https://doi.org/10.18710/TAFUSV
P.S. It would be rad if you cited the dataset, though :)
Correspondence Metadata from the Digital Scholarly Edition of Edvard Munch's Writings

The eMunch dataset contains correspondence metadata of 8.527 letters to and from the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944). The dataset is der...

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@type @stefandumont @correspSearch
Wir liefern regelmäßig #CMIF #TEI Dateien an CorrespSearch; die letzten Monate waren busy mit anderen Projekten, aber eine größere Lieferung kommt vmtl. noch vor Jahresende.
Hier ist das ganze #NorKorr Datenset, darunter auch viele Briefwechselausgaben von bokselskap.no https://correspsearch.net/en/search.html?t=norkorr
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