Ethnopoetic research in universities and digital archivesThe Canpop database

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This article discusses data, analysis and ideas that have come out of the Canpop project at the University of Alacant. The project has combined ethnopoetic research and university teaching to set up an on-line digital archive comprising the lyrics and audio recordings of 2342 folk songs. The Canpop project has one clear and simple aim: to create a virtual domain in which people can share and distribute not only a collection of folk songs but also the audio recordings of the songs being performed (their ethnopoetic acts). The project has been underway for six years so far, and the results indicate that the resource is useful for raising awareness of our ethnopoetic heritage, and for training teachers and linguists in our universities working in the fields of educational research, dialectological documentation, creating teaching materials, raising awareness of our ethnopoetic heritage, comparative literature, corpus linguistics and, most clearly, oral folk literature. So, the results of the Canpop project suggest a new direction for the management of on-line digital archives, particularly in the field of ethnopoetic university research.