ELDP Grantee Training
11 - 17 June 2008
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
Schedule
The training workshop for 2008 will provide formal, informal
and practical sessions dealing with topics in language
documentation including fieldwork, collection and management
of data, archiving, audio, video, and ethics.
This page last updated 21 June 2008.
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Wed 11 |
Thu 12 |
Fri 13 |
Sat 14 |
Mon 16 |
Tue 17 |
| 9:30
- 11:00 |
Welcome & introductions
(PA, grantees) |
Audio evaluation (TC, DN) |
XML
(DN, EG) |
Advice clinic
(PA, DN, TC) |
Video & documentation; videography
(DN, EG, CE; SA) |
Field practical
topics
(SA) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
TEA/COFFEE
BREAK |
| 11:30
- 1:00 |
Audio principles
(DN, TC)
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Archiving
(DN) |
Corpus collection; examples,
encoding & fonts (FL, PA; EG, DN) |
ELAN
(SM) |
Videography & video practical
(SA, CE) |
Multimedia
or Lexicography or
Advanced video or Digitising audio
(DN, EG/PA/SA/BH) |
| 1:00 - 2:00 |
LUNCH
(consult ELDP any day except Saturday; see Anna in
Room 336) |
| 2:00
- 3:30 |
Digital audio
(DN TC) |
Data management
(PA, DN) |
Consultation & elicitation
(FL) |
Data practical - ELAN & Toolbox
(SM, PA, DN) |
cont'd |
Ethics & IP
(PA)
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| 3:30 - 4:00 |
TEA/COFFEE
BREAK |
| 4:00
- 5:30 |
Audio practical
(TC, BH, DN) |
cont'd |
Toolbox (PA)
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Data practical - XML
(DN, EG) |
Video selection & editing
(CE, TC, SA) |
Wrap/feedback
(PA, DN) |
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DINNER
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Notes
- Attendance of this course is limited to invitees.
- Lunch will be provided
- This is a preliminary course outline
Presentations - files
Presentation and handout files from the training week. Note:
all resources are copyright to their respective authors.
Documentation
trends Peter Austin [PPT]
Audio Tom
Castle & David
Nathan [PPT]
Audio quickstarts Bernard
Howard [DOC]
Archiving David
Nathan [PPT]
Keeping Archivists
Happy handout David
Nathan [DOC]
Data management David
Nathan & Peter Austin [PPT]
XML David
Nathan [PPT]
XML Exercises Part
1 Part
2 David
Nathan [DOC]
Field based corpora Friederike
Lüpke [PDF]
Consultation
and elicitation Friederike
Lüpke [PDF]
Using ELAN Anthony Jukes
[PPT]
ELAN-Toolbox conversions Stuart
McGill [PDF]
Video - issues David
Nathan [PPT]
Video - techniques Simon
Atkins [PDF]
Video
equipment - web resources Simon
Atkins [PDF]
Field practical
topics Simon
Atkins [PDF]
Lexicography Peter
Austin [DOC]
Web ready video Edward
Garrett [PDF]
Ethics Peter Austin [PPT]
Previous Training Wikki (Contact David for access details)
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
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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