ELDP Grantee Training
21 - 27th June 2006
Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Programme
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh St, Russell Square
London WC1H OXG ... map
Central venue: SOAS Main building, Room R201 (Rausing Room)
Schedule | Recommended reading | Notes
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The ELDP training workshop for 2006 was held at SOAS from 21-27 June. It was judged a great success. The 18 grantees participated in formal sessions as well as sessions sharing their experiences about fieldwork, collection and management of data, archiving, and use of equipment. Video was a major focus of the week. See the program below. (Left to right) B'alam (Eladio) Mateo-Toledo, Matthew Dryer, and Stephen Morey practising their video skills.
Ubiray Rezende (left) showing how to use solar power. Victoria Rau Der-Hwa (right) watches.
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Schedule
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Wed 21 |
Thu 22 |
Fri 23 |
Sat 24 |
Mon 26 |
Tue 27 |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Welcome and introduction
PA
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Ethics & IP
PA |
Consultation and elicitation
FL |
Documentation
PA |
Video 1: camera and shooting
SA
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Archiving
DN |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Tea/coffee |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Sound 1: Principles
RK, DN |
Sound 3: Evaluation
RK, DN, TC |
Discussion 1 |
tba (ELAN/XML/Characters)
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Video 2: video for linguists
DH |
Mobilising
DN/DE |
| 12:30 - 2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00 - 3:30 |
Sound 2: Practical
DN, TC |
Transcription & annotation
PA/DN/DH
Sound 4: sound stage
TC
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Data management 1
PA/DN |
Field practical
Shared session
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Video 3: editing
FG
Video 3: Practical
DH/SA |
ELDP relations
JT |
| 3:30 - 4:00 |
Tea/coffee |
| 4:00 - 5:30 |
Projects - sharing |
Sound 4: sound stage
TC
Transcription & annotation
PA/DN/DH |
Data management 2
PA/DN
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Discussion 2 |
Video 3: Practical
DH/SA
Video 3: editing
FG
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Wrap/feedback
DN |
| 7:30 - |
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DINNER
Hare and Tortoise |
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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
Recommended reading
Defining documentation | Fieldwork methods and ethics | Archiving and data handling | EMELD School of Best Practice | Language Archives Newsletter | Encoding | Multimedia and documentation | Microphones | Recording sound and video | Digitising audio
A printed pack of core readings was sent out to ELDP grantees attending this workshop. There are also 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/
Fieldwork methods and ethics
Collette Grinevald: Speakers and documentation of endangered languages*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2004/reading/grinevald.pdf
Lüpke, Friederike. (2005): "Small is beautiful - The contribution of
small field-based corpora to different linguistic disciplines: a Jalonke
example." ELAP Working Papers in Language Documentation and Description
3:75-105.
Schütze, Carson T. (in press): "Thinking about what we are asking
speakers to do." In: Linguistic evidence: Empirical, theoretical, and
computational perspectives, Stephan Kepser & Marga Reis, eds., 457-485.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/cschutze/
AIATSIS: Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/library/assets/pdfs/policies/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
Peter’s paper on taming Shoebox
http://emeld.org/workshop/2003/Malyangapa.pdf
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
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
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