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The eLaboratory Oral Culture is a cooperation of several partners to investigate orally transmitted cultural phenomena such as folk tales and folk tunes with computational technology. Projects involved are Tunes & Tales, COGITCH, and FACT, carried out at the Meertens Institute (Amsterdam). These projects investigate data of the Dutch Song Database (Nederlandse Liederenbank) and the Dutch Folktale Database (Nederlandse Volksverhalenbank), hosted by the Meertens Institute and maintained by its units DOCLied and DOCVerhaal. In the eLab the Meertens Institute cooperates with the Universities of Amsterdam, Utrecht, Nijmegen and Twente, the Fryske Akademy (Leeuwarden), and the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (Hilversum).