The paper presents a nation-wide Slovakian project called A Digital Museum. Among others, the project focused on the digitalization of folk dance as a manifestation of folk culture, because folk dance has been more and more practised onstage, and it is vanishing fast from its natural environment. As a result of the project, there are 500 items of film recordings, which document the manifest and latent dance repertoire of the inhabitants of 46 communities in Slovakia, including their music manifestations. Such extensive research within a relatively limited time enabled an insight into the present day dance activities within the regions of Slovakia, as well as capturing the process of transformation of their functions. It is expected that a major part of the video and audio documentary will be available on the internet in 2015 and 2016; nevertheless, a scholarly analysis of the material will take much longer. A planned catalogization of all items and descriptions will be accessible through a unified database, which will allow it to be linked with other objects, and a search according to selected parameters. Unpublished material will be available for study purposes.
