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ELDP Grantee Training

Training course 13 - 17th September 2004

Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Programme
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh St, Russell Square
London WC1H OXG ... map
Last updated: 8 September 2004

Schedule | Recommended reading | Notes

Schedule (provisional)

	Monday 13th Sept	Tuesday 14th Sept	Wednesday 15th Sept	Thursday 16th Sept	Friday 17th
9.00-10.30	Introduction	Dictionaries	Tools I: General	Metadata	Discussion: Outcomes: data or products?
10.30-11.00	Tea break	Tea break	Tea break	Tea break	Tea break
11.00-12.30	Acquiring quality sound	Data I: representation (focus: dictionary data)	Tools II: Shoebox, Transcriber etc	Fieldwork	Ethics and intellectual property
12.30-2.00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
2.00-3.30	Sound technology	Annotation	Data II: representation (focus: annotation)	TBA	Back-up and Archiving
3.30-4.00	Tea break	Tea break	Tea break	Tea break	Tea break
4.00-5.30	Filmmaking (with Ralph Stephenson)	Ethnography (with Mark Jamieson)	Processing video (with Felix Gonzales)	Free time	Wrap up
Evening	Clinic	Clinic		Clinic

Recommended reading

There is a growing literature about our field, and many good sources on the web. Below are some recommended links, including to some items (marked *) from Language Documentation and Description (vols 1, 2) that we have made available on-line particularly for this course.

Note: the links marked * may be passworded. If you are a participant in ELDP training but have not been sent the password, please email Zara Pybus to request it.

Defining documentation

Tony Woodbury: Defining Documentary Linguistics*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2004/reading/woodbury.pdf

Peter Austin: Introduction (to LDD vol 1)*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2004/reading/austin.pdf

HRELP
http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/whatisit/

William Foley: Genre, register and language documentation in literate and
preliterate communities*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2004/reading/foley.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/

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/

Multimedia and documentation

Eva Csato and David Nathan: Multimedia and documentation of endangered languages*
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2004/reading/csato-nathan.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

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 (ALS 2004)
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2004/reading/nathan-austin.pdf