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IKTA5-101/2002
POPULAR TRADITIONS IN THE CARPATHIAN BASIN

• Participants
• Offers Hungary Ltd.
• MTA Ethnography Research Institute

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Introduction of participants

• MTA Ethnography Research Institute
• The Institute is one of the most important
  research place of Hungarian ethnography research,
  that examines several fields of European and
  general ethnology, social- and cultural
  anthropology. Researchers are focused on the
  cultural inheritance of Hungarian people and
  their central -European neighborhood.
• Offers Hungary Ltd
• Offers Hungary Ltd. performs informatical and
  research activity related to Internet and network
  applications since 1996. It plays an important
  role in creating informational society and
  electronic economy. It performs research activity
  in the field of expert systems and education.

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Purpose of development

• General purpose
• Developing database systems suitable to the
  related standards for ethnography,
• Modeling and preparing expert system built on
  these databases,
• Loading the system with basic data
• Making available the prepared work through
  Internet, thereby ensuring to ethnographical
  researchers and nonprofessional persons the
  conditions of research work and obtaining
  information.
• Scientific objectives
• Application of artificial intelligence, modern
  instruments of knowledge-based technology in a
  special field disregarded in the world, further
  development of it adequate to the special needs
  of this field.

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Expert System - AI

• Information instead of data, and presenting the
  adequate relations
• Human - machine communication happens in a
  language that stands near the human language
• The system makes decisions, suggestions using
  "expertise coded in lines"
• It explains its conclusions, decisions if needed
• All of these developed for the field of
  ethnography.

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Further development of the project

• Databases
• Expert system

E-learning
Sixth Framework Programme
e-Content
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System structure
INTERNET

• Knowledge-base mechanical transformation of way
  of thinking of experts concerning the given
  questions, and the most useful way of thinking in
  treatment of this topic.
• Reasoning device commands given by the user are
  executed through the application of rules in the
  knowledge-base, initiating further communication
  with the user if needed. Data in database are
  becoming information during this operation.
• Explanatory system it informs the user about the
  background of the decisions and suggestions made
  by the engine.
• Knowledge-base compiler it helps the work of the
  knowledge-engineer when importing the rules into
  the system and in case of modification of them if
  needed.

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Levels of database organisation

• Research areas popular belief, popular usage,
  tales, legends, society, ethnographical
  cartography, tematics of ethnographical atlas,
  folk music, folk dance
• Space Carpathians, County system (abaúj-Torna,
  Árva etc., since in ethnography they work on the
  basis of county-scheme of settlement-cadastral of
  1913), larger region units (Jászság, Kalotaszeg
  etc.), certain settlements
• Time before 1848-49, age of autocracy and
  dualism till the institutionalization of
  ethnography (1889), data collection period of
  ethnography, running up (1890-1920), between the
  two wars (1920-1945), socialism (1945-1990),
  after changing the system research of the present

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Personal conditions of project

• Experts of the special area
• Borsos Balázs C.Sc. MTA Ethnography Research
  Institute
• Benedek Katalin Ph.D. MTA Ethnography Research
  Institute
• Landgraf Ildikó C.Sc. MTA Ethnography Research
  Institute
• Szarvas Zsuzsanna Ph.D. MTA Ethnography Research
  Institute
• Tátrai Zsuzsanna C.Sc. MTA Ethnography Research
  Institute
• Pócs Éva D.Sc. MTA Ethnography Research
  Institute JPTE
• Tóth G. Péter Laczkó Dezso Múzeum, Veszprém
• Wolosz Robert PhD. JPTE
• Knowledge-engineer
• Sántáné- Tóth Edit ELTE TTK
• System programmer
• Vermeki Zoltán System programmer

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Material conditions of project

• Hardware
• IBM server in the internal network of MTA
  Research Institute of Ethnography
• 2 personal computers to data loading and
  maintenance
• Software
• Linux operating system
• Oracle database server
• Oracle application server
• Delphi, Java development devices

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Utilization of results

• MTA Ethnography Research Institute - archiving
  and publication of research results
• Ethnographycal researchers, inquirers - research
  instrument, source of information, tradition
  custody
• Profession of informatics - moving against
  practical realization of expert systems
• Domestic RD - possibility of starting a national
  project with domestic maintenance

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Thank you for your attention!

• Borsos Balázs - MTA Ethnography Research
  Institute
• Borsos_at_samu.neprajz.mta.hu
• Jákob János - Offers Hungary Ltd.
• jakob_at_offers.hu