ELDP Grantee Training
13 - 17th June 2005
Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Programme
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh St, Russell Square
London WC1H OXG ... map
Last updated: 5 June 2005
Central venue: SOAS Main building, Room R201
Schedule | Recommended reading | Notes
Schedule (provisional)
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| Mon 13
| Tues 14
| Wed 15
| Thurs 16
| Fri 17th
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| Theme
| Introduction, projects, sound, ethics
| Fieldwork methodologies, sound, project presentation
| Data management, video
| Transcription, annotation
| Tools, outcomes
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| 9.00-10.30
| Introduction – Documenting languages (PA)
| Consultation & elicitation (FL)
| Basic data management: XML & relational models (RM)
| Character encoding. Transcription & annotation (DN, PA)
| Documentation outcomes (PA)
| | 10.30-11.00
| Tea break
| Tea break
| Tea break
| Tea break
| Tea break
| | 11.00-12.30
| Grantees’ projects
| Practical: recording sound
| Archiving & metadata (DN)
| Practical: transcription & annotation (PA, DN)
| Practical: tools, conversions (RM, DN)
| | 12.30-2.00
| Lunch
| Lunch
| Lunch
| Lunch
| Lunch
| | 2.00-3.30
| Recording sound: equipment, people & environment (RK, DN)
| Featured presentation (DH, GA)
| Video: film making (TS)
| Ethnography (TW)
| Tools & outputs (DN, RM)
| | 3.30-4.00
| Tea break
| Tea break
| Tea break
| Tea break
| Tea break
| | 4.00-5.30
| Intellectual property, legal, ethics, protocol; discussion (PA)
| Digitising recordings: parameters & evaluation (RK, DN)
| Video: processing (FG)
| Role of video in documentation; discussion (TW)
| Wrap-up and feedback (PA)
| | Evening
| (6:30-7:30) Current issues in Latin America. Invited speakers and discussion (NE, DM)
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| Workshop dinner, incl guests and ELDP staff
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Recommended reading
Defining documentation | EMELD School of Best Practice | Language Archives Newsletter | Encoding | Multimedia and documentation | Fieldwork and ethics | Archiving and data handling | Microphones | Recording sound and video | Digitising audio | Using Shoebox
There is a growing literature about our field, and many good sources on the web. Below are some recommended links.
Note: items marked * may be passworded. If you are a participant in ELDP training but have not been sent the password, please email David Nathan to request it.
Defining documentation
Nikolaus Himmelmann: Documentary and descriptive linguistics (full version). In Osamu SAKIYAMA and Fubito ENDO eds. Lectures on Endangered Languages:5 (Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim, Kyoto, 2002)
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2005/reading/himmelmann.pdf
Tony Woodbury: Defining Documentary Linguistics*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2004/reading/woodbury.pdf
Dafydd Gibbon: Workable Efficient Language Documentation: a Report and a Vision
http://www.spectrum.uni-bielefeld.de/LangDoc/EGA/Docs/elsnews_WELD_oct2002_HTML/
HRELP
http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/whatisit/
EMELD School of Best Practice
A large amount of excellent material can be found at the E-MELD School of Best Practice (http://www.emeld.org/school/). If possible, read at least the following sections from the Classroom:
- Annotation
- Archives
- Audio
- Conversion
- XML
Language Archives Newsletter
The Language Archives Newsletter contains a variety of useful technical and other information
http://www.mpi.nl/LAN/
Encoding
Jost Gippert: Linguistic Documentation and The Encoding of
Textual Materials
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2005/reading/gippert_encoding.pdf
Jukka Korpela: A tutorial on character code issues
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html
Multimedia and documentation
Eva Csató and David Nathan: Multimedia and documentation of endangered languages*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2004/reading/csato-nathan.pdf
David Nathan: Developing multimedia documentation*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2005/reading/nathan_multimedia.pdf
David Nathan and Eva Csató: Multimedia: A Community-Oriented Information and
Communication Technology*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2005/reading/nathan-csato.pdf
Fieldwork and ethics
Collette Grinevald: Speakers and documentation of endangered languages*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2004/reading/grinevald.pdf
AIATSIS: Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/corp/docs/EthicsGuideA4.pdf
Archiving and data handling
Peter Austin: Documentation and your data*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2005/reading/austin_documentation.pdf
Heidi Johnson: Language Documentation and Archiving, or How to
Build a Better Corpus*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2004/reading/johnson.pdf
Bird and Simon's paper "Seven dimensions of portability"
http://www.language-archives.org/documents/portability.pdf
David Nathan and Peter Austin: Reconceiving metadata: language documentation standards through thick and thin*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2005/reading/nathan-austin.pdf
Microphones
David's article on microphones
http://www.hrelp.org/archive/advice/microphones.html
Peter Patrick: Beginners’ Notes about Using Microphones
http://courses.essex.ac.uk/LG/LG554/UsingMics.html
BBC Microphones and sound for radio
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourse.asp?tID=2508&cat=2772
Recording sound and video
BBC Minidisk for radio
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourse.asp?tID=5514&cat=2772
BBC: DV Camera Shooting Guides
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourse.asp?tID=5160&cat=2781
Other useful BBC resources are at
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourses.asp
Digitising audio
http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/emeld/school/classroom/audio/index.html
Using Shoebox
Peter’s paper on taming Shoebox
http://emeld.org/workshop/2003/Malyangapa.pdf
Notes
- Attendance of this course is limited to ELDP Grantees
- Lunch will be provided
- This is a preliminary course outline - please check this page again for updates
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