Documentation and archiving play a crucial role in preserving dying cultures, particularly within the framework of folklore studies that engage with canon formation, multimodality, interdisciplinarity, and social epistemology. As cultures face rapid transformation due to globalization, urbanization, and technological change, many traditional practices, oral narratives, rituals, and performative expressions risk being lost. Documentation and archiving serve as vital processes through which these fragile cultural forms are recorded, interpreted, and transmitted across generations. In folklore, much of cultural knowledge exists in oral and performative modes rather than in written form. Songs, myths, folktales, proverbs, dances, and rituals are often transmitted through memory and practice, making them highly vulnerable to disappearance when communities undergo disruption. Documentation, through audio, video, and written records, captures these ephemeral expressions and transforms them into durable forms. This aligns with the idea of multimodality, where folklore is not limited to text but includes sound, gesture, performance, and visual elements. Modern archiving techniques allow for the preservation of these multiple modes simultaneously, ensuring a richer and more authentic representation of cultural practices. The concept of canon in folklore is also closely tied to documentation. Historically, what gets documented