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Sanita Reinsone is an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia and Head of the UL Digital Humanities Center. Her academic work focuses on digital humanities, with particular emphasis on digital cultural heritage, participatory research, and citizen science. Her research interests also include folklore narrative studies, life-writing, and digital research infrastructures for the humanities. She has led and contributed to numerous national and international research projects, and serves as Latvia’s national representative to DARIAH ERIC and actively participates in several digital humanities and cultural heritage professional associations.
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OECD Fields of Science
- 6.5 Other Humanities
- 6.2 Languages and Literature
- 6.4 Arts (Arts, History of Arts, Performing arts, Music)
- 1.2 Computer and Information Sciences
- 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
- 2.2 Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
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- digital humanities
- digital folkloristics
- digital research infrastructures
- life writing
- participatory approaches
- citizen science
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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AISTER Consortium. Synthesis of Key Findings – Roundtables
Ļaksa-Timinska, I., Reinsone, S. & Zariņš, U., 2026, In: Vita Antiqua. 16, p. 234-245Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Beyond the Archive Shelves: Navigating Digital Archiving of Life Writing Legacy Through Public Involvement
Reinsone, S., Ļaksa-Timinska, I. & Žvarte, E., 2026, In: A B Auto Biography Studies. 41, 1, p. 87-108 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Crowdsourced: COVID-19, Life Writing, and Collective Memory in Latvia
Reinsone, S., Ļaksa-Timinska, I., Matulis, H. & Žvarte, E., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Writing COVID-19 Lives. Gammel, I. & Wang, J. (eds.). London: Routledge, 13 p. (The COVID-19 Pandemic Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Archiving Uncertainty: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Methodology in Documenting Personal Experiences of COVID-19
Reinsone, S., Ļaksa-Timinska, I., Matulis, H. & Žvarte, E., 2025, In: European Journal of Life Writing. 14, p. 1-34Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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BalsuTalka.lv - Boosting the Common Voice Corpus for Low-Resource Languages
Darģis, R., Znotiņš, A., Auziņa, I., Saulīte, B., Reinsone, S., Dejus, R., Kļavinska, A. & Grūzītis, N., 2024, 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings. Calzolari, N., Kan, M.-Y., Hoste, V., Lenci, A., Sakti, S. & Xue, N. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 2080-2085 6 p. (2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › Research › peer-review
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Inventory A2: University actors as agents of change in DCH for crisis responsiveness
Gailīte, E. (Creator), Khoma, I. (Creator), Muravska, S. (Creator), Oikonomou, S. (Creator), Reinsone, S. (Creator), Verbytska, P. (Creator) & Zara, R. (Creator), Zenodo, 13 Mar 2025
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Inventory A1: Collection and analysis of international HEI responses to cultural heritage emergency in wartime Ukraine
Gailīte, E. (Creator), Khoma, I. (Creator), Muravska, S. (Creator), Oikonomou, S. (Creator), Reinsone, S. (Creator), Verbytska, P. (Creator) & Zara, R. (Creator), Zenodo, 13 Mar 2025
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Latvian Folk Legend Corpus of LPT (in Latvian)
Reinsone, S. (Creator), Kaščejeva, S. (Creator), Spektors, A. (Contributor) & Pakalns, G. (Contributor), CLARIN Centre of Latvian language resources and tools, 18 Dec 2025
DOI: 20.500.12574/147
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Dainu skapja elektroniskā versija
Pērle-Sīle, G. (Creator), Krūze, A. (Editor), Laime, S. (Contributor), Pleiko, Z. (Editor), Smilgaine, U. (Editor), Krogzeme-Mosgorda, B. (Contributor), Melne, E. (Editor) & Reinsone, S. (Other), LU Literatūras, folkloras un mākslas institūts, 0001
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Corpus of Latvian Autobiographies, CLARIN-LV digital library at IMCS
Reinsone, S. (Creator), Matulis, H. (Creator), Ļaksa-Timinska, I. (Creator) & Žvarte, E. (Creator), CLARIN Centre of Latvian language resources and tools, 2025
DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12574/145
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