17th October, 2024
A major bug meant that users who were banned for overuse were never allowed back onto the system, this is now fixed.
Added percentage splits to the motif comparison page, and fixed a few minor bugs, and tweaked the UI a little in places.
30th September, 2024
Trying to tidy up the UI, using icons and more consistent headings to provide a better user experience.
29th September, 2024
We have implemented the automatic calculation/display of the top 10 most similar motif distributions to the motif you are looking at. This should aid understanding similarly aged myths, or myths told by similar cultures.
Also added are region headings to the myth data so when they are displayed you have a better idea of the region the tradition is located in.
Plus a few other minor bug fixes.
28th September, 2024
Over the last 10 days there have been massive changes, with the implementation of compulsory logon, but also the implementation of auditing, and many minor bug fixes.
18th September, 2024
Two new features have been added. First, below each section in the Berezkin Catalogue is the ability to get a citation which you can paste into a papers you are writing regarding the motif being researched. And the second feature is under "Berezkin Motif List" which now has a table of categories, and if you select one of these you will go to the first entry in the list of that grouping.
There are other minor bug fixes on top of this.
16th September, 2024
Submotif dispersals can now be seen, along with various bug fixes to improve the general well-being of the site.
Changed the color scheme, to allow easier reading and to be more compliant with web standards, also fixed a couple of minor code version issues.
6th September, 2024
Updated how the results of a search look with a better breakdown of Folktales due to future changes around folktale categorization, and tweaked the Motif List. Continuing to improve the underlying code with many minor bug fixes and efficencies. The tabs should be using less memory in your browser compared to a couple of weeks ago.
Changed the color scheme, to allow easier reading and to be more compliant with web standards, also fixed a couple of minor code version issues.
1st September, 2024
Added around 20 new books, primary source material on Roman and Greek history.
Changed the color scheme, to allow easier reading and to be more compliant with web standards, also fixed a couple of minor code version issues.
1st August, 2024
Changed the markers on the map to be smaller, and added a "Compare Motif Dispersals" feature, so you can compare side by side the dispersal patterns of two different motifs.
26th July, 2024
Added new mapping interface, which is faster and cheaper, meaning the mapping features are now available to everyone.
23rd July, 2024
Added 200+ new motifs, improved geographic data with 10 new locations, added two new classifications for all motifs which can be seen via the Motif Categorisation option under the main title of the page.
11th July, 2024
Added another 1200 new Folktales to the database.
6th July, 2024
Added approximately 800 new Folktales to the database.
3rd July, 2024
MAJOR IMPROVEMENT: Search now returns better results, esepcially around Folklore. This will mean the results will need to be displayed differently in future, and so this will be one of the next changes.
26th June, 2024
BUG FIX: Removed the use of pollyfill.io from CDN following security alert from Google.
18th June, 2024
BUG FIX: Sometimes folktales would not be displayed if metadata was corrupt. This is now fixed.
12th June, 2024
Improved the Bibliography page, corrected encoding problems, and provided an index, and ensured all names were alphabeticised.
28th May, 2024
Further enhancements to the UI allowing Data Sources and Geography (if you are a full user) to be filtered on searches. These options are under the search bar, and will expand when you click on them, making the UI much cleaner in general use.
27th May, 2024
It's been a busy year, but starting to work on this again.
Updated the UI to be cleaner.
Added a feature for "Full Users" to search the Berezkin's Database by geographic region
In the coming months I'm looking to add user ID, supporting resources, and various fixes and updates, including enhanced search options.
12th January, 2023
Added around 450 Fairy Tales from the compilation of Fairy Books by Andrew Lang
10th January, 2023
There were some issues with chapter refrences not displaying in search results, this is now fixed.
Added The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homeric Hymns, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the Mabinogion to the database.
More classic texts will be added soon.
28th December, 2022
Manually corrected approximately 500 entries today, fixing false positive location results. There is still much work to do here, with perhaps 1,200 more entries requiring attention, and with over 5,000 motif location references not currently recognised, and perhaps even expanding the locations availble to search. This should not affect any research if you are using the text information, however the maps for these entries will now probably have many less entries.
This will be a massive effort to fix, but this is being worked on.
27th December, 2022
Fixed a bug where the hyperlinks to the original Berezkin Database format stopped working.
26th December, 2022
Access to the Database is now restricted to Patreons, and academics, where their use continues to be free.
Please email access@crecganford.com if you wish to gain access to this. Many thanks.
21st December, 2022
We now can search for a string "some words" or for the instance of "some" and "words", to search for the words to be sequential place quotes around the search string.
18th December, 2022
We now seperate the results in the Berezkin's Database into their appropriate catagories, and so are now shown in reference order
8th December, 2022
Added a new option, under the search bar, to view the Crecganford/Berezkin database. This is dynamically produced as opposed to being a translation of the original russian site. This will eventually allow more interesting analysis to be carried out on objects within this database.
Also added some folktales about Widows, and Willow the Wisps.
7th December, 2022
Changed the format of the Berezkin Search results, removing the preview text as it was considered limited in value, but now ordering the results in alpha-numerical order based on the index reference.
There was also a bug that showed duplicate entries in the Berezkin results, this has now been fixed.
3rd Decemember, 2022
Added over 100 new folklore entries covering frogs, werewolfs, and other oddities.
Also corrected regional data for around 1,000 entries in the Berezkin Database.
2nd December, 2022
Added over 800 folktales, including over 100 tales from the Brothers Grimm to the database.
