Presentations

Academic presentations

Keynote & invited speeches

• 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)

2024

• (upcoming) 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

• 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