E-MELD - Tools & Resources

Welcome to the E-MELD Tools and Resources area. Here you will be able to examine tools that we are creating for digitizing and archiving language data. This is especially important for field linguists interested in preserving their language data for long term community accessibility. These tools are still under development. In line with the goals of the E-MELD project, these tools are freely available. We encourage you to try them and we would appreciate your comments or suggestions.

School of Best Practices Toolroom	A database of software tools used, reviewed, and classified by linguists.
Field Input Environment for Linguistic Data	A web based tool for field linguists to insert their language data into a fully searchable online database.
CharWrite©	A tool developed to allow users easy insertion of IPA characters into web based forms.
OLAC Repository Editor (ORE)	A simple way to describe your data so that it is accessible to the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) search engine.
LINGUIST Language Search Engine	Searches LINGUIST's database of 7557 languages, which includes the complete Ethnologue database of 7300 languages, as well as all known ancient and constructed languages.
Linguistic Ontology	An ontology of morphosyntactic terms.
OLAC Metadata	The markup language with which participating linguists describe their data.

Project Goals include recommendations, access to the OLAC metadata server, and information on the 10
endangered languages for the showroom of best practice.

Project Organization includes our work plan, timeline, and contributing institutions and project members.

Project Documents include the E-MELD grant proposal, workshop reports, and related papers.

Events include E-MELD conferences, E-MELD sponsored events, and other events related to the digitization and
preservation of endangered languages' data.

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