Our team
| Place of work: | Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University (Sweden) |
| Position: | Professor of Finno-Ugric linguistics |
| Contribution: | Principal investigator, project administrator |
| E-mail: | rogier.blokland@moderna.uu.se |
| Place of work: | Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies, Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Freiburg (Germany) |
| Position: | Director of the Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies |
| Contribution: | Principal investigator, fieldwork organization (multimedia) |
| E-mail: | michael.riessler@skandinavistik.uni-freiburg.de |
| Place of work: | Centre for Innovative Language Technology at the Komi Republican Academy of Civil Service and Management, Syktyvkar, Komi Republic (Russian Federation) |
| Position: | Director of the Centre for Innovative Language Technology |
| Contribution: | Principal investigator, fieldwork organization, lead interviewer, translation of fieldwork material into Russian |
| E-mail: | m-fedina@mail.ru, komi@fu-lab.ru |
| Place of work: | University of Hamburg (Germany) |
| Position: | PhD student |
| Contribution: | Graduate project assistant, interviewer, technical infrastructure, metadata management |
| E-mail: | nikotapiopartanen@gmail.com |
| Place of work: | Centre for Innovative Language Technology at the Komi Republican Academy of Civil Service and Management, Syktyvkar, Komi Republic (Russian Federation) |
| Position: | Translator |
| Contribution: | Undergraduate project assistant, interviewer, transcription and translation of Komi-language audio recordings |
| E-mail: | chuprovv@inbox.ru |
| Place of work: | Centre for Innovative Language Technology at the Komi Republican Academy of Civil Service and Management, Syktyvkar, Komi Republic (Russian Federation) |
| Position: | Engineer-programmer |
| Contribution: | Development of Internet resources, search functions and user interfaces. Metatagging of primary multimedia material |
| E-mail: | levchenko_dmitry@bk.ru |
| Place of work: | University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu (Finland) |
| Position: | MA student |
| Contribution: | Translation of fieldwork material into English |
| E-mail: | fedinamarija@gmail.com |
We would also like to express our heartfelt gratitude to those organisations and individuals who did their utmost in helping to make the project successful:
- the Ministry of National Politics of the Komi Republic;
- the interregional movement “Iźvatas”, especially Nikolaj Rochev and Olga Jarovaja;
- the administration of the Izhemskij District of the Komi Republic;
- Nikolaj Kurzenev, head of the administration of Lovozero, Lovozerskij District, Murmansk Oblast;
- the “Ethnocultural Centre of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug”, especially Olga Kotsjubanskaja, head of the section of Komi culture;
- Aleksej Rassyxaev, Candidate of Philological Sciences, research fellow at the folklore sector of the Institute of Komi Language, Literature and History, Komi National Centre, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
And last but not least: a heartfelt thanks to all our consultants!