Searchable Norwegian Tradition Archives – The SAMLA Project

The SAMLA project has digitized three Norwegian tradition archives containing vernacular traditions collected mostly by the means of pen and paper. The use of machine assisted text recognition is applied to make the material searchable and readable, and, by that, more accessible for the public. SAMLA summarized SAMLA is both the name of a digitizing project and the end product: a digital online archive (samla.no). It consists of written material from three Norwegian tradition archives: The E...