ELDP Grantee Training
5 - 11th September 2007
Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Programme
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh St, Russell Square
London WC1H OXG ... map
Venue: SOAS Main building, Room R201 (Rausing Room)
Schedule | Recommended
reading | Notes
Schedule
This page last updated 25 August 07.
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Wed 5 |
Thu 6 |
Fri 7 |
Sat 8 |
Mon 10 |
Tue 11 |
| 9:30 - 11:00 |
Welcome & introduction
PA
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Audio evaluation
TC, DN |
XML
DN |
Advice clinic
DN, TC (PA) |
Video & documentation
LA, PA
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Digitising audio
TC |
| Grantee projects |
cont'd
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TBA |
cont'd |
Videography
SA |
TBA |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
TEA/COFFEE
BREAK |
| 11:30 - 1:00 |
Audio principles
TC, DN
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Archiving
DN |
Mobilising
DN
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ELAN
AJ
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Video: camera
SA |
TBA |
cont'd
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cont'd |
Multimedia topics
DN
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cont'd
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Video: practical
SA, D, LA |
Advanced Toolbox
PA |
| 1:00 - 2:00 |
LUNCH |
| 2:00 - 3:30 |
Digital audio
DN |
Data management
PA, DN
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Consultation & elicitation
FL |
Data practical
PA, DN, AJ
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cont'd |
Ethics & IP
PA |
| Grantee projects |
cont'd |
cont'd |
cont'd
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Video editing & evaluation
D
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cont'd |
| 3:30 - 4:00 |
TEA/COFFEE
BREAK |
| 4:00 - 5:30 |
Audio practical
DN, TC |
cont'd |
Field practical
topics
SA
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Advice clinic
PA, DN, TC, AJ |
cont'd |
Wrap/feedback
PA, TC |
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cont'd |
cont'd |
cont'd |
Video & documentation
LA, PA |
cont'd |
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| 7:00 - |
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DINNER
tba |
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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 - many are catalogued
in our catalogue of Online
Resources for Endangered Languages.
Below are some recommended links.
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/).
We recommend reading 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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