OCDI

Among the projects of the Folklore and Ethnology Working Group is the Oklahoma Cultures Digital Initiative, a collaboration with Daniel C. Swan and the Division of Ethnology at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Find the OCDI website here.

The goals of the OCDI are to promote the study of cultural diversity in Oklahoma, to make ethnographic and ethnohistorical resources related to Oklahoma more widely available through the use of digital media, and to foster dialogue and collaboration between researchers, students, and interested communities.

The Folklore and Ethnology Working Group is an virtual research laboratory in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. It is directed by Jason Baird Jackson. Projects and collaborations focus on (1) museum ethnology, (2) heritage and cultural property issues, (3) material culture studies, and the (4) ethnographic and ethnohistorical study of expressive culture. Working Group collaborators are increasingly engaged in projects related to the place of digital media in the fields of folklore and ethnology and with issues related to open access.