LINGUIST List 22.442 Tue Jan 25 2011 Qs: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Wayles Browne , Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text Message 1: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text Date: 24-Jan-2011 From: Wayles Browne <ewb2cornell.edu> Subject: Oral History Project: Digitizing a Corpus of Text E-mail this message to a friend A colleague at Columbia University Library seeks information about large-scale digital projects, involving any languages, that attempt to create databases and maps of vocabulary--both differing regional pronunciations of the same word, and different terms for the same concept. Columbia is working on a project that would digitize the results of an oral history project involving Yiddish, undertaken a number of years ago. The goal is to create a digital database of the findings of this survey. She is trying to establish whether anything comparable has been undertaken in any other language. The archive has been used in the past to create hand-made maps (people would fill in the particular variants that they were interested in on a map of Europe) for this study, but we are hoping that creating a website would make the process much easier, as well as allowing for a tremendous amount of collaboration that was previously not possible. Please send replies directly to: Michelle Chesner Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies Columbia University 304 International Affairs (420 W. 118th St.) New York, NY 10027 212-854-8046 mc3395columbia.edu (Ms. Chesner is not at present a subscriber to The LINGUIST List, but has promised to summarize and post responses she receives.) Message relayed by: Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics Department of Linguistics Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A. tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h) fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE) e-mail ewb2cornell.edu Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics                             Language Documentation                             Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)                             Yiddish, Western (yih) New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-Jan-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.