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The Digital Access to Sámi Heritage Archives -project wants to thank all the partners and project participants for wonderful collaboration. Yesterday we had our last meeting for the

23th of November we went to Vuotso and organized a pilot with school kids at the Vuotso school. First, we showed them how Nuohtti works and what kind

This week the Digital Access to Sámi Heritage Archives project had a consortium meeting about the current status and next steps on the project. The University of Lapland

Our portal's name "Nuohtti" won a shared second prize in the best Name of the Year competition that was voted out of the seven finalists in the Finnish

Good news for the Sámi language week! Finnish Conference of Onomastics is an annual scientific event, where scholarly studies concerning proper names in Finland and its vicinity are

Nuohtti Sámi archives search service was featured on  Yle Ođđasat news! Juha Heinonen from the Sámi Archives, National Archives of Finland, presented the Nuohtti service and demonstrated in

Indigenous Archives Today and Tomorrow conference addressed topical themes related to indigenous archives. The conference was organized in collaboration with Digital Access to Sámi Heritage Archives and AIDA

What is an Indigenous Sámi archive today and in the future? What are the key questions in archiving Sámi Cultural Heritage? In this conference we open for discussion

We collected feedback about Nuohtti search service from five Northern libraries in Finland 9th to 11th of June 2021. Preliminary results show that there is a need for

The Sámi archive materials can soon be searched through a new digital search service. The name for the new search service, Nuohtti, was chosen through an international competition,

Our article about Digital Access to the Sámi Heritage Archives project was published in the latest issue of the Historiallinen Aikakauskirja ('Historical Journal'), a scholarly journal published by

Digital Access to the Sámi Heritage Archives  -project organized a user test pilot in Kilpisjärvi community center in Kilpisjärvi. With the pilot we tested project’s search service -prototype,

The project organized a pilot (online) at Kilpisjärvi school, located in the northern Lapland, Finland. Altogether, 18 school children and 4 teachers participated in the pilot and demo

This year’s first project consortium meeting was organized 20.-21.1.2021 as an online workshop. The initial plan to visit different project partners has been delayed due Covid-19 and the

As part of the project, Sámi language support is developed for the search service. In addition to the user interface, which will be available in Northern Sámi, the

Due the Covid-19 pandemic preventing face-to-face sessions in 2020, the research group in University of Lapland conducted during the summer and fall a user study online. The

University of Lapland researchers, together with professor Sven Aamold, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, visited Siida, Inari. The visit was combined with Jonna Häkkilä’s project management meeting at

The prototypes of the search portal were piloted at Tráhppie, Sámi Cafe, during the Sámi Week in Umeå.

The project had a chance to visit the Sámi archives of the Finnish National Archives, and Siida Museum in Inari.

Project actions are being carried out according to the plans: the archive survey shows good results (see more below), we tested the search service prototype, discussed the

Project partners at the Digital Access Workshop in Oulu 13.-14.8.2019. The two-day workshop was the second face to face meeting with all partners. The workshop focused on