DocLing 2010

Posted：2010.02.05

The Workshop aims to further develop the skills of participants in preparing and processing language data, with a focus on archiving and its relationship to language documentation. It will consist of a mix of tutorial/lecture/discussion sessions, and guided groupwork sessions. Participants are expected to bring their own field data.

Date/Time

2 (Tue.)–5 (Fri.), February 2010, 10:00–17:00

Venue

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Lecturers

Peter Austin
David Nathan
Anthony Jukes (SOAS, University of London)

Program

	Tue Feb 2	Wed Feb 3	Thu Feb 4	Fri Feb 5
10:00-11:20	Registration All meet and discuss background and goals	Video I	ELAN I	Ethical and IP issues in language material salvage, archiving, delivery and usage
11:20-11:40	Teabreak
11:40-13:00	Field practicalities (discussion)	Video II	ELAN II	Group project work
13:00-14:00	LUNCH
14:00-15:20	Public lecture 1	Salvaging data I	ELAN III	Group project work
15:20-15:40	Teabreak
15:40-17:00	Public lecture 2	Salvaging data II Startup group projects [1]	Group project work	Group project presentations Wrap-up
	RECEPTION

Handouts

Public Lecture 1 (Tue Feb 2)

Peter Austin (Endangered Languages Academic Programme, SOAS, University of London)

Current Issues in Language Documentation (1.5MB)
Public Lecutre 2 (Tue Feb 2)

David Nathan (Endangered Languages Archive, SOAS, University of London)

New Trends in Documentary Linguistics (3MB)

Readings

Simons, Gary 1999 The Nature of Linguistic Data and the Requirements of a Computing Environment for Linguistic Research (especially read section 7): http://www.sil.org/computing/computing_environment.html
Bird, Steven and Gary Simons 2003 Seven dimensions of portability (we looked at this before but please review the content): http://www.language-archives.org/documents/portability.pdf (129K)
Thieberger, Nicholas 2005 Computers in field linguistics. Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics: http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2188
Claire Bowern 2003 Laves’ Bardi Texts: http://lingdy.aacore.jp/doc/docling2010/FEL_formatted.pdf (457K)
Pamera Innes 2009 Ethical problems in archival research: Beyond accessibility: http://lingdy.aacore.jp/doc/docling2010/Innes.pdf (135K)
Carolyn O’Meara, Jeff Good 2009 Ethical issues in legacy language resources: http://lingdy.aacore.jp/doc/docling2010/OMearaGood.pdf (175K)

Information for Participants

This year’s workshop will cover (1) video recording, (2) salvaging data, and (3) ELAN. For those participants who have already been doing some fieldwork, please bring representative samples of your fieldwork data (such as a small number of audio recordings, field notes, transcriptions, metadata, images etc). In preparation for the workshop, participants are required to do the readings that are listed below.