Dissemination & outreach

Academic presentations

Public lectures & workshops

Media coverage

Academic presentations

Keynote & invited speeches

31.10.2024. Digital Dynamics in Folklore Archives: Charting Community Engagement Patterns. Conference "Archives of Traditional Culture 100+10", Riga, Latvia.
08.03.2024. Open Science and Digital Humanities. Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania
25.01.2024. Digital Humanities in Latvia: Recent Developments, Trends and Perspectives. XXXIV International Scientific Conference in the Humanities. Daugavpils, Latvia.
08.06.2022. #ScienceForUkraine in Support of Ukrainian Academic Community. Ciencia en Redes 2022 conference. Madrid, Spain.
03.12.2021. Participatory Digital Heritage: Values, Meanings, and Practices. Theatrum Libri conference. National Library of Lithuania. Vilnius, Lithuania.
29.06.2023. Guest speaker at the discussion panel on digital cultural heritage. World Congress of Latvian Scientists. Riga, Latvia.

Conference presentations (since 2017)

2025

04.03.2025. Sandis Laime and Sanita Reinsone. Garamantas.lv – Overview and Critical Reflections on a Decade of Digital Folklore Archiving. Pre-conference workshop "Tradition Archives Meet Digital Humanities", Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 2025, Tartu, Estonia
05.03.2025. Jānis Daugavietis and Sanita Reinsone. Challenges in Assessing the Ecosystem of DH Tools and Resources in Latvia. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 2025, Tartu, Estonia
05.03.2025. Ilze Ļaksa-Timinska, Haralds Matulis and Sanita Reinsone. Crowdsourcing in Archives: A Case Study of the Latvian Pandemic Diaries Project. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 2025, Tartu, Estonia

2024

16.08.2024. Matīss Rikerts and Sanita Reinsone. Strategic Insights in Human and Large Language Model Tactics at Word Guessing Games. The 4th Wordplay: When Language Meets Games Workshop, ACL 2024: The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Bangkok, Thailand
14.06.2024. Sanita Reinsone, Normunds Grūzītis, Ilze Auziņa, Baiba Saulīte. Mobilizing Voices: Citizen-Driven Enhancement of Speech Data Accessibility and Language Technology Advancement. The 29th Biennial AABS Conference, June 13–16, 2024, Yale University and the University of New Haven
14.06.2024. Sanita Reinsone, Rita Grīnvalde, Sandis Laime. A Century of Networks: Archives of Latvian Folklore. The 29th Biennial AABS Conference, June 13–16, 2024, Yale University and the University of New Haven
23.05.2024. Roberts Dargis, Arturs Znotins, Ilze Auzina, Baiba Saulite, Sanita Reinsone, Raivis Dejus, Antra Klavinska, and Normunds Gruzitis. 2024. BalsuTalka.lv - Boosting the Common Voice Corpus for Low-Resource Languages. Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.187
25.04.2024. Normunds Grūzītis, Anda Baklāne, Valts Ernštreits, Antra Kļavinska, Sanda Rapa, Sanita Reinsone. Baltic Digital Humanities Landscape: Latvia. Baltic DH Forum. Riga, Latvia.
26.04.2024. Sandis Laime, Sanita Reinsone. Humma.lv: Digital Platform for Humanities and Arts. Baltic DH Forum. Riga, Latvia.
26.04.2024. Baiba Saulīte, Ilze Auziņa, Kristīne Pokratniece, Sanita Reinsone, Normunds Grūzītis, Roberts Darģis, Artūrs Znotiņš, Ilze Ziņģe, Antra Kļavinska, Raivis Dejus. Balsutalka.lv: Crowdsourcing Open Speech Corpora in Latvian and Latgalian. Baltic DH Forum. Riga, Latvia.
26.04.2024. Elīna Gailīte, Sanita Reinsone. Promoting Digital Citizen Science for Humanities and Cultural Heritage: iesaisties.lv. Baltic DH Forum. Riga, Latvia.
14.03.2024. Reinsone, Sanita. Citizen Science in the Context of Digital Humanities: Digital Solutions, Engagement Methods and Communication. 82th International Conference of University of Latvia 2024.
26.02.2024. #ScienceForUkraine: 2 Years of Grassroots Activism in Support of Ukrainian Science During the War. Webinar series of AGILE Erasmus+ K2 project. YouTube

2023

26–27.09.2023. Reinsone, Sanita, Matulis, Haralds, Ļaksa-Timinska, Ilze. Navigating the Methodological Complexities: Building a Diary Text Corpus. Life Narrative and the Digital 2023. Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria. DOI 10/5281/zenodo.8238248.
12.09.2023. Reinsone, Sanita, Sandis Laime. HUMMA.LV –Towards Digital Platform for Humanities and Art Studies (ceļā uz humanitāro un mākslas zinātņu digitālo platformu). CLARINLV2023 conference. Riga, Latvia.
28.06.2023. Auziņa, Ilze, Reinsone, Sanita, Grūzītis, Normunds, Saulīte, Baiba, Darģis, Roberts, Dejus, Raivis, Jurčenko, Pēteris. Balsu talka – Crowdsourced Open Latvian Speech Dataset. World Congress of Latvian Scientists, Riga, Latvia.
07.06.2023. Daugavietis, Jānis and Sanita Reinsone. Cultural Collections as Challenging Research Data in Small States: the Case of Latvia. DARIAH Annual Event 2023, Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data? Budapest, Hungary

2022

07.10.2022. Rikters, Matīss with Reinsone, Sanita. How Masterly Are People at Playing with Their Vocabulary? HLT2022: Human Language Technologies – the Baltic Perspective. Riga, Latvia
26–30.06.2022. Reinsone, Sanita, Laime, Sandis: Digital Archive of Latvian Folklore garamantas.lv: history and development perspectives. The Association of Advancement of Baltic Studies 2022 conference, Seattle, U.S.
15–18.03.2022. Matulis, Haralds, Reinsone, Sanita, Ilze Ļaksa-Timinska. Automatic Date Detection in the Corpus of Diaries. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 2022. Uppsala, Sweden
15–18.03.2022. Pērle-Sīle, Ginta, Reinsone, Sanita. Manuscript Transcription as a Tool for Deep Reading and Teaching of Folklore. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 2022. Uppsala, Sweden

2021

02.06.2021. Sanita Reinsone. VPP „Humanitāro zinātņu digitālie resursi”: atskats uz pirmo pusgadu. Clarin LV conference “Latvian language digital resources and tools for education". Rīga, Latvia, Zoom
31.05.2021. Sanita Reinsone. Reflections on audience in creating the Digital Archives of Latvian Folklore garamantas.lv. SAMLA Lunch / Norway Digitalisering av norske tradisjonsarkiv, Bergen, Norway
27.04.2021. Sanita Reinsone with Ilze Ļaksa-Timinska and Justīne Jaudzema. Collecting Pandemic Diaries in Latvia. Pandemic Life Writing: Collecting & Collections. Webinar. Zoom
10.03.2021. Elīna Gailīte, Sanita Reinsone, Sandis Laime. No arhīva manuskripta līdz tekstu korpusam: garamantas.lv piemērs. Liepāja University 27th international conference. Panel Digital Resources for Humanities: Experience and Cooperation. Zoom/Liepāja, Latvia
08.11.2021. Sanita Reinsone, Creating a New Autobiography Collection: Digital Archiving and Public Involvement. SAMLA conference at the University of Bergen. Bergen, Norway (Zoom)

2019

4–6.12.2019. Reinsone, Sanita with Jānis Daugavietis. From Manuscript Transcription to Poetry Performances: Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing in Practice. 7th Estonian Digital Humanities Conference. Use of Digital Cultural Heritage in Research and Education. Tallinn, Estonia
18.–22.06.2019. Reinsone, Sanita. Rethinking the role of communication in creation of the Autobiography collection. IABA 6th International conference “Knowing the Self: Auto/Biographical Narratives and the History of Knowledge”, Madrid, Spain
14.–17.04.2019. Reinsone, Sanita. There's something magical there': personal meanings in cultural heritage crowdsourcing. SIEF 14th Congress. Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2018

22.–23.05.2018. Reinsone, Sanita. Society involvement into creation of digital cultural heritage. Forum of Digital Cultural Heritage. Riga, Latvia
7.–9.03.2018. Reinsone, Sanita. Empowering vernacular knowledge digitally: Towards a closer cooperation of tradition archives. 3rd International conference Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries. Helsinki, Finland

2017

8.–9.05.2017. Reinsone, Sanita. Volunteering legacy: exploring participatory patterns in safeguarding of folk knowledge in Latvia. Workshop “Citizen Humanities / Citizen Science: Concepts, Infrastructures, Practices and Methods”, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway
6.–7.04.2017. Sīle, Inga; Reinsone, Sanita; Edita Romāne; Dambrova, Maija. Ārstniecības augi latviešu tautas ticējumos. RSU zinātniskā konference, Rīga, Latvia
26.–30.03.2017. Reinsone, Sanita; Ķirsis, Uldis. Exploring user-created metadata in digital folklore archives. SIEF2017 13th congress “Ways of Dwelling: Crisis - Craft – Creativity”, Gottingen, Germany
14.–16.03.2017. Reinsone, Sanita. Exploring User Engagement in Crowdsourcing for Tradition Archives. Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN), the 2nd conference, Gothenburg, Sweden
16.02.2017. Reinsone, Sanita. Digitālās humanitārās zinātnes un sabiedrības virtuālā līdzdalība: folkloras arhīvu piemērs. 75th Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia, Panel on Computational Linguistics, Riga, Latvia

Public presentations and lectures, workshops

28.03.2025. Oral History as a Method to Study the History of University of Latvia. Organized by the University of Latvia Museum.
26.02.2024. #ScienceForUkraine: From a Tweet to NGO. Webinar; #ScienceForUkraine: 2 Years of Grassroots Activism in Support of Ukrainian Science During the War. The online webinar, hosted and organised by Web2Learn for the AGILE EU-funded project.
15.06.2023. Hands-on garamantas.lv workshop at Ventpils University.
16.02.2023. Life Writing and Autobiography Collection. Meeting with the readers club in the Jugla Library.
16.09.2022. Digital Collaboration Projects or Heritage as Our Shared Responsibility (in Latvian). In Forum "Visi mūsu dziesmusvētki" organized by the Literature and Music Museum, Riga, Latvia. Recording
21.03.2022. Participation in the discussion "Open Science in Latvia" organized by the Ministry of Education and Science. Video recording (in Latvian)
27.01.2022. Digital Participatory Methods. In the "Digital Humanities Series" by the National Library of Latvia and the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art. Video.
03.09.2020. On Kārlis Svensons autobiographic heritage (in Latvian). In the video series Complicated Histories by the Punctum Journal. Video.
15.05.2018. Society Involvement in the Production of Digital Cultural Heritage (in Latvian). In Digital Cultural Heritage Forum. National Library of Latvia, Riga. Recording

Media coverage

Topic: #ScienceForUkraine

Oscar Allan, The grassroots organizations continuing the fight for Ukrainian science, 11 September 2024, NATURE
Mariona Baltkalne, Ukrainian Scholars in Latvia (in Latvian), 4 September 2023, National Radio of Latvia, Daily Science Programme. Discussion.
Tobias Hoffmann, ‘Science for Ukraine’ – How European scholars help their Ukrainian colleagues, 23 March 2022, European Science-Media Hub (interview)
Alicia Moreno, Diego Salvadores, Sanita Reinsone y Oleksandra Ivashchenko, impulsoras de #ScienceForUkraine, 3 March 2022, Agencia Sinc
Yvan Pandele, Meet the Latvian scholar rallying support for Ukrainian researchers, 28 February 2022, Geneva Solutions News (interview)
Yvan Pandele, #ScienceForUkraine: rencontre avec la chercheuse lettone qui veut mobiliser les universités, 28 February 2022, Heidi News (interview)
Agnese Linka, Ilze Puncule-Aginta, Aicina centralizēt palīdzības piedāvājumus Ukrainas zinātniekiem (in Latvian), 22 April 2022, Latvian Radio 1 (live interview)
Mariona Baltkalne, Sandra Kropa. Latviešu zinātnieki palīdz zinātniekiem no Ukrainas, meklējot iespējas strādāt svešumā (in Latvian) , 15 March 2022, Zināmais Nezināmajā, Latvian Radio 1 (interview, together with Matīss Reinfelds)

Topic: citizen science, digital humanities, digital cultural heritage

Toms Grēviņš, Mariona Baltkalne. Interview on current citizen science initiatives in humanities. 27 January 2025. Latvian Radio 1, Afternoon programme.
Latviešu folkloras krātuves "Simtgades talka" (On crowdsourced manuscript transcription initiative by the Archives of Latvian Folklore). Latvian Television 1, 1 October 2024
Digitālais projekts "Balsu talka" (On speech collecting task force). Latvian Television 1, 5 May 2024
Ivars Austers. Zinātnes vārdā. Interview of Gunta Kalvāne and Sanita Reinsone about citizen science. 28 March 2024. Radio Naba
Mariona Baltkalne, Paula Gulbinska. Zināmais Nezināmajā. Interview about citizen science in Latvia, 6 March 2024. Zināmais nezināmajā. Latvian Radio 1
Kārlis Kasparsons. Dziesmu un deju svētku dalībnieki aicināti piedalīties Balsu talkā. Short TV interview about voice sample collecting campaign "Balsu talka". TV3, 5 July 2023
Gehtmane-Hofmane, Ilona. Paaudžu paaudzēs nodotās lietas mūs ietekmē vairāk, nekā apzināmies. Interview about research career, digital humanities and other topics. Monthly Newsletter of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Zinātnes Vēstnesis, 30 January 2023
Jakob Lenardič. Tour de CLARIN: Interview with Sanita Reinsone. 13 February 2019
Ingvilda Strautmane, Santa Lauga, Zigfrīds Muktupāvels. Digitālais arhīvs garamantas.lv - grāmatās tādus materiālus izlasīt nevar. Interview about digital resources for humanities and culture studies (in Latvian), 7 May 2018. Kultūras Rondo, Latvian Radio 1
Kropa, Sandra. Zināmais Nezināmajā. Interview about digital humanities and participatory methods in creating of the Autobiography Collection (in Latvian), 26 March 2018. Zināmais Nezināmajā, Latvian Radio 1

Topic: autobiography collection, documenting the self, diary writing, pandemic diaries (since 2018)

Podcast "Klausītava" of the National Library of Latvia. The conversation with Mārtiņš Mintaurs and Beata Paškevica about life writing in past and nowadays, including Herrhnhutian life writing traditions. 12 October 2022.
Ilze Zvaigzne, Mairita Znotiņa. Pieredzes stāsti nākamajām paaudzēm: veidot dzimtas kokus, ekskursijas uz bērnības vietām (interview about family storytelling together with Ieva Pīgozne and Sanita Kalna), 4 May 2022, Ģimenes Studija, Latvian Radio 1
Aicina rakstīt par savu pieredzi Vardarbības arhīvā, 15 January 2021, Latvian Television 1, News (interview on Violence archive project)
Toms Treibergs, Dzīvā folklora: Dienasgrāmatu fenomens pagātnē un mūsdienās, 11 January 2021, Latvian Radio 1 (interview about diary writing phenomenon)
Gundega Skagale. Saglabāt laiku dienasgrāmatās: aicina rakstīt un sūtīt pandēmijas laika dienasgrāmatas, 6 May 2020, Latvijas Avīze (interview on diary writing and Pandemic diary project)
Ilze Medne, Pagātnes balss mūsdienu noformējumā – Emīla Pudeļa simtgadīgā dienasgrāmata, 6 April 2020, Latvian Radio 3 (interview on the publishing of 100 years old diary on Twitter)
“Pandēmijas dienasgrāmata”: žurnāls "Punctum" aicina dokumentēt šo laiku, 24 March 2020, Kultūras Rondo, Latvian Radio 1 (interview on Pandemic diary project)
Odisejs Kostanda, Pandēmijas dienasgrāmatas, 24 March 2020, Latvian Radio 3 (interview on Pandemic diary project)
Alma Mater. A short film by VFS Films. June 2019.
Māra Rozenberga. Pētniece atrisina 70 gadus senu «nezināmās meitenes» dienasgrāmatas mīklu, 30 December 2018, Latvian Radio 1 / LSM.LV (interview about a unique diary)
Andra Pērkone. Folklora dzīvo ne tikai Brīvdabas muzejā, bet nu arī tviterī – pētnieki meklē veidus, kā ieinteresēt iedzīvotājus, 9 April 2018, LNT TV (interview about Autobiography Collection)