LINGUIST List 22.4196 Tue Oct 25 2011 All: ELCat: Call for Bibliographies Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     Anthony Aristar , ELCat: Call for Bibliographies Message 1: ELCat: Call for Bibliographies Date: 25-Oct-2011 From: Anthony Aristar <aristarlinguistlist.org> Subject: ELCat: Call for Bibliographies E-mail this message to a friend Dear Linguists: We need your help. We need your bibliographies. In July of this year the National Science Foundation of America awarded a grant (BCS 1057725) to the University of Hawai'i and LINGUIST List to build a comprehensive database on endangered languages (Endangered Languages catalogue, or ELCat). The aim of the database is to provide accurate, up-to- date information on the endangered languages of the world and ultimately to produce a definitive catalog of languages at risk. It will update existing information and provide new data not available from current sources, offering this information in an accessible, maintainable online format. The catalog will allow users to assess, not only how critically endangered a language is, but also how much it can contribute to scientific knowledge and how well it has already been described. Thus it will provide information on: (1) the number, age, and location of the speakers, (2) the genetic affiliation of the language, and (3) what descriptive materials and projects already exist. The content of the catalog will be developed by the linguistic research teams at the University of Hawaii and at LINGUIST List at Eastern Michigan University, in collaboration with regional experts. It will be designed so that scholars, community members, and other users can submit and annotate catalog information in many different ways, e.g., via smart phone, as well as conventional Internet applications. We are now trying collect as comprehensive a bibliography of endangered languages as possible, as well as a list of all projects on endangered languages. We know that many of you keep bibliographies of publications in your area, and it would be immensely useful to us if you would be willing to contribute them to the project. Obviously, we would prefer that the bibliographies we receive are in a form that can easily be read by a machine, such as BIBTeX or Endnote. But we would be happy to take any you wish to send, in whatever form they are, whether text or Word or any other format you might use. Please send the bibliographies to me, Anthony Aristar (aristarlinguistlist.org). Our sincere thanks! The ELCat team Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics                             Language Documentation Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.