Regional Heritage Profile Help

What is this page?

The Regional Heritage Profile aggregates multiple data sources into a single view for each collection place. For every place in the corpus you can see runosong statistics (poem, word, and verse counts), the emotional landscape derived from emotion-word analysis, treasure legends recorded at that location, and nearby places with their own heritage data.

Finding a place

Use the dropdown to search by name — places are sorted by poem count so the richest collection sites appear first. Each entry shows the place name, total poems, and language (ET for Estonian / ERAB, FI for Finnish / SKVR+JR). You can also click Random place to explore somewhere unexpected.

The map

The interactive map centers on the selected place (large brown dot) and shows nearby collection sites as smaller dots within a 100 km radius. Click any nearby dot to jump directly to that place's profile. The map uses CartoDB light tiles for a clean background.

Statistics

The stat cards at the top of each profile show: total poems collected from this place, total words, total verses, average word length (a rough proxy for morphological complexity), the number of treasure legends on record, and (when available) the year range of collection and source corpus.

Statistical outliers

For a small number of places (~20 of 803), alert boxes highlight statistically unusual patterns — such as an emotion domain that appears far more than average, or an unusually high concentration of treasure legends. These are computed via z-score analysis across the entire corpus.

Distinctive vocabulary

The top 15 words that are most distinctive to this place, ranked by TF-IDF score. These are words that appear unusually often here compared to the corpus as a whole — not just the most frequent words. Each word links to its concordance (word-in-context) view filtered to this place.

Collection timeline

Horizontal bars show how many poems were collected at this place in each decade, from 1800 to 1970. The peak decade is highlighted. This reveals the temporal distribution of collection activity.

Poetic features

Alliteration rate and parallelism score compared to the corpus average. For Finnish places in the top 200, a Kalevala meter breakdown is also shown (powered by FinMeter). Green bars mean above average, red means below. Note: ET and FI metrics come from different pipelines and may not be directly comparable.

Sample poems

Five randomly selected poems from this place, each linking to the full poem reader. Use the refresh button to get a different sample. This provides direct access to the actual runosong texts.

Emotional landscape

Horizontal bars show the distribution of emotion domains found in poems from this place, drawn from the emotion place index. Bars are scaled relative to the dominant emotion. Up to 24 emotion families are tracked — from love and joy to grief, anger, and fear. Toggle to Radar view to see this place's emotion profile compared to the corpus average on a spider chart.

Cross-lingual connections

Shows how many cross-lingual verse clusters involve this place and lists the top 5 partner places. Cross-lingual connections link Estonian and Finnish traditions through shared verse patterns. Partners link to their own regional profiles. Places with only one language tradition may have no cross-lingual clusters.

Verse clusters

Which of the top 200 verse clusters (recurring formulaic phrases) appear at this place? Each cluster shows representative text, total members, and local frequency. Clicking a cluster opens its concordance view.

Collectors

Who collected poems at this place? Shows the top 5 collectors with their poem counts and year ranges. Each collector links to the full collector profile. Loaded on demand as you scroll down.

Treasure legends

If the place has entries in the treasure legends corpus (Estonian varandusemuistendid), they appear as expandable cards. Click a card to read the full legend text. Each card shows the motif type, collection year (if known), and collector name. Only Estonian places have legend data. Up to 20 legends are shown with a count of any remaining.

Nearby places

Places within 80 km are listed as clickable buttons with their distance. Clicking one loads that place's profile and scrolls to the top. This makes it easy to explore a region by hopping between neighboring sites.

Data coverage note

Not all sections will have data for every place. Larger, well-studied collection sites tend to have richer profiles across more sections. Smaller or less-studied places may show fewer populated sections — this reflects the historical unevenness of folklore collection, not missing functionality.

Deep linking

The URL updates automatically when you select a place (e.g. ?place=Kuusalu). You can copy and share this link — anyone opening it will see the same profile loaded immediately.

Explore further

Links at the bottom connect to related pages with place-aware URLs where supported.