Dear ELAN Workshop attendees, and anyone who might find this of interest,
There were a few loose ends left at the end of the ELAN workshop last week. I'd particularly like to address one, the question as to whether we should aim for a standard set of ELAN templates which everyone uses.
Our December conference is almost full, so if you were thinking of coming along, now is the time to register! The preliminary schedule is up, papers have been reviewed, everything is going along nicely (touch wood).
The third day of the conference is a workshop, with sections on audio and video recording, transcribing and managing your data, and producing outputs from this data. If this is more your thing you can come to just that. If you're interested in ELAN for transcribing or shoebox/toolbox, I thoroughly recommend it, but there'll be plenty of other useful stuff.
The preliminary schedule for the conference "Sustainable data from digital fieldwork: from creation to archive and back" is now up. There looks to be some really interesting projects on display. I had a sneak peek at EOPAS, a project to create a workflow and display interlinearised texts, and annodex, a project to display multiple streams of visual, audio and textual data, both of which look great. I'll also be talking about the FieldHelper tool I've been working on this year, a tool to add in the tagging of arbitrary metadata to field work data, amongst other things.
Our registration quota of 40 places is fast filling up. Please register now if you wish to come, also note that you can choose to come to the third day workshop if your interest in more in practical experience with current digital field work tools.
RNLD in collaboration with the conference "Sustainable data from fieldwork" is offering a day-long session on the creation, organisation, annotation and display of digital media. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in making digital recordings and annotating them. If you're new to shoebox or ELAN and have any questions about using it, and you have your own data, then bring along your laptop. The workshop will be held at Sydney University on Wednesday, December 6, 2006.
Read on for the specifics
There's an interesting post on slashdot today, on a product that will geo-tag your photos. Geo-tagging a photo means recording some geographic information at the time you take your photo, typically the longitude and latitude.
At first glance I thought it might be another on of these data-loggers, but actually, with a minor addition, it's a pretty nifty bit of hardware.
a post from Nick Thieberger
David Nash just alerted me to http://www.mouton-online.com/ausbib.php which is promisingly called: 'Language in Australia and New Zealand', and, for a mere 248 euros would seem to be an indispensible aid to the Australasian linguist. I popped in and got a guest logon which they generously (but perhaps ill-advisedly) offer for free. It seems to be a bibliographic listing (but in the days of Google Scholar and other such resources it may already be redundant?). I put in the name of my favourite Aboriginal language, Warnman, and got zero hits. Curious I thought.
Jane's last post and a post on the ever excellent Language Log have got me thinking about permanence and accountability in the internet age. Its a theme that I encounter again and again, working for a digital archive.
Many academic disciplines depend on analysis of primary data captured during fieldwork. Increasingly, researchers today are using digital methods for the whole life cycle of their primary data, from capture to organisation, submission to a repository or archive, and later access and dissemination in publications, teaching resources and conference presentations. This conference and workshop will showcase a number of projects that have been developing innovative and sustainable ways of managing such data.
Papua New Guinea FAQs from Eva Lindstrom
Papua New Guinea (New Ireland): Eva Lindstrom's tips for fieldworkers
Australian Languages
Answers to some frequently asked questions about Australian languages
Papua Web
Information network on Papua, Indonesia (formerly Irian Jaya)
Omniglot
Writing systems and languages of the world
LingFormant
Linguistics news
Language hat
Linguistics news and commentary
Jabal al-Lughat
Linguistics news and commentary on a range of languages
Kiangardarup
Indigenous concerns in south-west Western Australia
Living languages
Blog with news items and discussion of endangered languages
OzPapersOnline
Notices of recent work on the Indigenous languages of Australia
That Munanga linguist
Community linguist blog
Langguj gel
Australian postgraduate linguistics and fieldwork blog
Anggarrgoon
Claire Bowern's linguistics and fieldwork blog
Savage Minds
A group blog on Anthropology
Language Log
Group blog on language and linguistics
Arwarbukarl Indigenous Language and Information Technology Blog
Culture matters: applying anthropology
Australian anthropology blog: postgraduates and staff
Indigenous Language SPEAK
A forum for linguists, language speakers, educators and any other interested people to discuss any issues regarding language loss, language research, and fieldwork methodology within indigenous communities.
Long Road
ethnography and anthropology blog - including about Australia
matjjin-nehen
A student blog of linguistics, politics and the environment.
E-MELD
The E-MELD School of Best Practices in Digital Language Documentation
Tema Modersmål
Website in Swedish with links to sites on and in many languages
Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project: Language Documentation: What is it?
Information on equipment, formats, and archiving, and examples of documentation
Linguistic fieldwork preparation: a guide for field linguists
syllabi, funding, technology, ethics, readings, bibliography
On-line resources for endangered languages
Papua New Guinea Language Resources
Phonologies, grammars, dictionaries, literacy, language maps for many PNG languages
ACLA
child language acquisition in three Australian Aboriginal communities
Resource network for linguistic diversity
Networking practitioners working to record,retrieve & reintroduce endangered languages
DELAMAN
The Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network
PARADISEC
The Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
Ethno EResearch
Exploring methods and technology for collaborative electronic research
Murriny-Patha Song Project
Documenting the language and music of public songs and dances composed and performed by Murriny Patha-speaking people
DOBES
Endangered language documentation and archiving, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and sponsored by the Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
DELP
Documenting endangered languages at the University of Sydney