Language Digitization Workshop Schedule (tentative)
| Thursday |
4:00 - 5:30 |
reception |
| 5:30 - 7:00 | dinner | |
| 7:00 - 9:00 | introductory session | |
| Welcome
(Ratliff) Participant introductions Brief (10-15 minute) introductions to central topics of the workshop The LINGUIST project (Aristar-Dry) Metadata (Aristar-Dry) OLAC – Open Language Archives Community (Simons) Unicode (Dwyer) Language Classification/Codes (Aristar) Markup (Langendoen) |
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| Friday |
8:00 – 9:00 |
breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | panel discussion (moderators: LaPolla and Mithun) | |
| What
linguists want from databases--i.e., the kinds of searches we would like
to be able to perform in order to find (a) language data and documentation on the Internet and (b) specific linguistic features within that data. (Dench, Heath, LaPolla, Mithun, Sands, Solnit, Thwala) |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 | break | |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | presentations on metadata | |
| Dublin
Core and OLAC metadata (Simons) Metadata Proposal from IMDI (ISLE Metdata Initiative) (Wittenberg) |
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| 12:00 - 1:30 | lunch | |
| 1:30 - 3:15 | presentations on markup | |
| ISLE/TEI
markup (Langendoen) DOBES markup (Dwyer) LACITO markup (Michailovsky) |
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| 3:15 - 3:30 | break | |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | presentations on database projects (moderator: Jahr) | |
| The Thao
grammaticon (Blust) The STEDT project (Cook and Solnit) Online Native American dictionaries (Hammond) |
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| 5:30 - 7:00 | dinner | |
| 7:00 - 9:00 | presentations on database projects (moderator: Ostler) | |
| Online
comparative databases (Starostin) Australian languages database (Nash) The Rosetta project (Mason) |
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| Saturday | 8:00 - 9:00 |
breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | ethical issues (discussants: Woodbury and Wittenberg) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | break | |
| 10:15 - 12:00 | working groups | |
| 1) Metadata (group leader Simons): Aristar-Dry, Dench, Donnelly, Furbee, Jahr, Ostler, Wittenberg, Nash, Mason, Woodbury, Plichta | ||
| 2) Markup (group leader Langendoen): Austin, Carnie, Dwyer, Farrar, Grondona, Hammond, Heath, Lewis, Michailovsky, Sands, Whalen | ||
| 3) Language Classification/Codes (group leader Gragg): Aristar, Blust, Cook, LaPolla, Mithun, Ratliff, Simpson, Solnit, Starostin, Thwala, Veselinova | ||
| 12:00 - 1:30 | lunch | |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | working groups, continued | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | break | |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | working group reports | |
| 5:30 - 7:00 | dinner | |
| 7:00 - 9:00 | multimedia presentations of language data (moderator: Donnelly) | |
| LACITO project (Michailovsky) The Gamilaraay hypertext dictionary (Austin) SMIL & multimedia content for the net (Plichta) |
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| Sunday | 8:00 - 9:00 | breakfast |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | session on archiving | |
| An LSA archive & electronic archive structures(Furbee) | ||
| 9:45 - 10:00 | break | |
| 10:00 -11:00 | final discussion (moderators: Carnie and Whalen) | |
| · Continuing
the collaboration and advisory function · Achieving agreement on standards; dissemination ·Reporting on this workshop; future workshops |