ELDP Grantee Training
22 - 26 March 2010
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)
Recommended
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Schedule
The ELDP training workshop for 2010 will provide a variety of formal,
informal and practical sessions dealing with topics in language
documentation including fieldwork, collection and management
of data, archiving, audio, video, and ethics. This workshop will take a group-based "workflow" approach, proceeding from issues and practicalities in collecting primary materials (audio, video), to representing and analysing them.
This page last updated 15 April 2010 (resources added and linked - click on "PDF", "PPT" or "Handout").
| 9:30-11:00 |
Welcome (DN)
Defining documentation (FL)
PDF |
Groups & projects
Audio & video issues (SA, DN)
PPT |
Transcription, orthography & other representations (FL)
PDF |
ELAN (MC)
PPT |
Advice clinic / Group work
(DN, TC, EG) |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Tea/coffee
break |
| 11:30-1:00 |
What & why? Group discussion of goals, values, ethics
(FL)
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Video practical (SA /TC, BH, DN)
Handout |
Encoding and fonts (EG)
PPT |
...ELAN cont'd (MC) |
Practical archiving (EG, JM) |
| 1:00-2:00 |
Lunch,
including multimedia presentation, and private consultation with ELDP. |
| 2:00-3:30 |
Linguistic data collection & elicitation
(FL)
PDF |
...video cont'd |
Data modeling & management (DN)
Handout - organising data
Handout - salvaging data
Handout - metadata
Handout
- metadata exercise solution |
Archiving (DN)
PPT |
Group presentations & discussion (FL) |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Tea/coffee
break |
| 4:00-5:30 |
Audio (DN, TC)
PPT
Groups & projects (DN) |
...video cont'd
Video examples (DN) |
...data & XML (DN)
PPT |
Groupwork for presentation |
Wrapup, feedback/evaluation (FL) |
| 7:00- |
Workshop dinner 1 |
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Workshop dinner 2 |
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Notes
- Attendance of this course is limited to invitees.
- Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop computers
and recording equipment if practical.
- Lunch will be provided.
- This is a preliminary course outline
Recommended reading
Defining documentation | Fieldwork methods and ethics | Archiving and data handling | EMELD School of Best Practice | 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/eldp2008_6/resources/woodbury.pdf
Fieldwork methods and ethics
Collette Grinevald: Speakers and documentation of endangered
languages
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/grinevald.pdf
AIATSIS: Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies
http://ntru.aiatsis.gov.au/ifamp/practice/pdfs/AIATSISEthicsGuideA4.pdf
Archiving and data handling
Peter Austin: Documentation and your data
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/austin_documentation.pdf
Heidi Johnson: Language Documentation and Archiving, or How to
Build a Better Corpus
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/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/eldp2008_6/resources/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
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
David Nathan: Developing multimedia documentation
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/nathan_multimedia.pdf
David Nathan and Eva Csató: Multimedia: A Community-Oriented
Information and Communication Technology
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/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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