ESSEN FOLKSONG COLLECTION
Advantages:
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large sample: 6,255 traditional European folksongs
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includes village/town/region/country information
for each folksong
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includes Austrian, Alsacian, Belgian, British, Czech, Danish,
Dutch,
French, German,
Hungarian,
Italian,
Luxemburgean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish,
Swiss, Tirolian, and
Yugoslavian works
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used electronic gazetteer (GEONAME) to resolve latitude and longitude
values
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some works have only region/country designations
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894 works resolved to village/city/suburb level
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1596 works resolved to regional/provincial level
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3013 works resolved to the country level
