Specimens of Bushman Folklore

Learning to Read Bushman: Automatic Handwriting Recognition for Bushman Texts

The Bleek and Lloyd Collection contains notebooks that document the tradition, language and culture of the Bushman people who lived in South Africa in the late 19th century. Transcriptions of these notebooks would allow for the provision of services such as textbased search and text-to-speech. However, these notebooks are currently only available in the form of digital scans and the manual crea...

Learning to Read Bushman

The Bleek and Lloyd Collection contains notebooks that document Bushman stories and culture and are available as digital scans [1]. Converting these images to text, through a process known as transcription, would allow for the text which appears in the notebooks to be searched, indexed and compared. However, automatic transcription of Bushman texts is difficult due to the diacritics that span m...

Folklore, Folklorism, and Synchronization: Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel

The Folklore of Sorting Algorithms

The objective of this paper is to review the folklore knowledge seen in research work devoted on synthesis, optimization, and effectiveness of various sorting algorithms. We will examine sorting algorithms in the folklore lines and try to discover the tradeoffs between folklore and theorems. Finally, the folklore knowledge on complexity values of the sorting algorithms will be considered, verif...

Implementing digital folklore collections

In this paper, we present a metadata model to describe the digitized digital folklore collection of the Department of Greek Studies in the University of Athens. Folklore collection consists of different kinds of digitized material. The volume and the variety of material results to collection representation as a hierarchical structure, according to the type of objects, the corresponding chronolo...