Principal Investigator: Tim Tangherlini, European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Methods and/or Tools: Database; Development; Website
The Korean/Korean American Online Folklore Archive is a tool envisioned by Professor Tangherlini and developed by programmers at HumTech to train students in the practices of folklore/ethnographic fieldwork.
Students enrolled in his classes collect and document cultural expressive forms from members of Los Angeles’ Korean-American community, and then enter that data into the online folklore archive. All of the data in the archive is wedded to significant metadata describing the collectors, the consultants/informants, the collection contexts, and the field data itself. In the long run, the data that Tim and his students have collected (and continue to collect) will be a valuable reference for anyone studying the history of the Korean-American community of the greater Los Angeles area.