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At http://olonkho.info, information is available through interfaces in languages
such as English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Turkish. Most
of the textual content comes in Yakut and Russian. The website’s philosophy
proclaims the principle of language equality, meaning that information
resources can be accessed through any of the existing language interfaces.
For example, a Yakut-language text will be presented in each of the language
subsystems with its title in the original and in translation, as well as with a note
about the original language, a reference to the source, a hyperreference, and, if
possible, a translation of the full text or its synopsis.
Multimedia files should come with descriptions in all languages; metadata for
all the information resources should also be multilingual. The user will thus be
able to receive information in all available languages without having to leave
his or her specific linguistic environment on the Web.
The Olonkho.Info Portal has a developed CMS-content management system,
which enables authenticated users to correct already existing resources and
contribute new ones.
Such a website is possible to build only in the environment of a university that
can offer a powerful IT infrastructure as well as competent personnel, including
computer programmers, folklorists, translators, and bibliographers.
The Olonkho.Info Portal has significantly enhanced its capacities thanks to
the 2010-2011 Development Programme for the North-Eastern University,
previously known as the University of Yakutsk.
The content it features includes scholarly and non-scholarly publications;
Olonkho texts; profiles of Olonkho reciters and academics specializing in
epic heritage; digitized manuscripts; archival audio recordings; video footage
of Olonkho contests, including among young narrators; voiced dictionaries;
class pages; press; teaching manuals; methodology literature; links to related
websites and organizations, etc.
Information Technology for Preserving and Promoting Cultural Heritage
In our efforts to preserve linguistic and cultural diversity, we should apply
information technnology as extensively as possible. Subprojects implemented
as part of the Olonkho IS project provide various examples of how IT could
serve the purpose.
Computer technology may be an especially powerful motivation tool for young
Olonkho reciters. Through the feedback it provides, they will be able to see
that their heritage popularization efforts resonate with a wide audience.
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