The Citation Problem
This post is a open draft! It might be updated at any time… But was last updated on October 22, 2012 at 5:43 pm. In a team framework where there are several members of a research team and the job …...
View ArticlePermanently accesable? to whom?
This post is a open draft! It might be updated at any time... But was last updated on October 22, 2012 at 9:23 pm. There has recently been some discussion on the about the BBC selling its production...
View ArticleLeave Typology to the Typologists: I am a Linguist
A discussion of User Experience in the Researcher - Archive interaction, with a special consideration SIL's tool RAMP. Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Look of Language Archive Websites
This post is a open draft! It might be updated at any time… But was last updated on March 7, 2013 at 8:21 pm. This the start of a cross-language archive look at the current state of UX design...
View ArticleThe Data Management Space for Linguists
An outline of datatypes that linguist use. Continue reading →
View ArticleLeaf in Meꞌphaa
When I was in México, working with a team doing language documentation we visited a community workshop where the community organizer was promoting the language through a dictionary creation effort. I...
View ArticleAudio Dominant Texts and Text Dominant Audio
As linguistics and language documentation interface with digital humanities there has been a lot of effort to time-align texts and audio/video materials. At one level this is rather trivial to do and...
View ArticleCitations, Names and Language Documentation
I have recently been reading the blog of Martin Fenner and came upon the article Personal names around the world . His post is in fact a reflection on a W3C paper on Personal Names around the World1...
View ArticlePresentation version vs. Archival version of Digital Audio files
What is an archival version of an audio file? An archival version of an audio file is a file which represents the original sound faithfully. In archiving we want to keep a version of the audio which...
View ArticleTeaching FLEx in Malaysia
In October, Becky and I were invited to present FLEx at the Universiti of Malaysia, Sabah as part of a workshop for compiling native dictionaries and managing cultural data. I learned a lot about...
View ArticleSome Notes on Using FLEx
Some User Experience observations about FLeX. Continue reading →
View ArticleA Story Breeds A Story
While I was in Malaysia, I had the honor to meet and talk to quite a bit with Professor Emeritus Howard McKaughan. We talked a about his linguistics based work in Mexico, the Philippines, and in...
View ArticleEthnologue: the linguistic straw-man
Some rough thoughts on how the Ethnologue is perceived and used socially. Continue reading →
View ArticleSome current challenges in using GIS Information in the SIL International...
A brief discussion on the GIS data gathering processes of SIL International. Continue reading →
View ArticleRemoteness Index
For the last few weeks I have been thinking about how can one measure the impact on a language due to a language communities' contact with other languages. I have been looking for ways that remoteness...
View ArticlePresenting Research on the Web
I have been Looking at different ways to make SIL’s digital research content more interactive, findable, and usable. Today I found http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/. It is interesting how they...
View ArticleReviewing Webonary
This post is a open draft! It might be updated at any time… But was last updated on March 7, 2013 at 8:26 pm. In this review1 I will be looking at the WordPress plugin, Webonary and several associated...
View ArticleTypes of Linguistic Maps: The Mapping of linguistic Features and Researcher...
A short demonstration of different kinds of Language Maps, or plotted Language Data on a Geographical grid. Continue reading →
View ArticlePresenting Audio and Video on the Web
I have been trying to find out what is the best way to present audio on the web. This led me to look at how to present video too. I do not have any conclusions on the matter. But I … Continue reading →
View ArticleDOIs and URLs same or different?
A document’s DOI (http://www.doi.org/ or on Wikipedia under Digital Object Identifier) is an important part of the citation of a document. Many style sheets allow for just the DOI of a paper as the...
View ArticleDigital Literacy vs. Literacy in a Digital Medium
An exploration at the impact of digital mediums on literacy, with a special look at visual relevance. Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Look of Language Development Websites
I have been thinking through some of the presentation issues for presenting SIL International’s work on the web. As part of this I have also been looking at other organizations which are part of the...
View ArticleLinking Minority Language Dictionaries to Open Data
Some thoughts on Linking Minority language Dictionaries to Globally available LinkedData knowledge stores. Continue reading →
View ArticleKeyboard Design for Minority languages
This post is a open draft! It might be updated at any time… But was last updated on March 3, 2013 at 10:48 am. Pre-Print Draft will not be available through this means (check back after publication)…...
View ArticleSoftware Needs for a Language Documentation Project
This post is a open draft! It was originally started on April 23, 2011. Almost two years later it makes it’s public debut. It might be updated at any time… But was last updated on April 20, 2013 at...
View ArticleLexical Data Management helps (with SIL software)
This is a quick note to record some of the things I have learned this week about working with lexical data within SIL's software options. There is information scattered all over the place: FLEx...
View ArticleResources for Digitizing Audio as part of Archiving
I have been looking into some http://www.indiana.edu/~medpres/documents/iub_media_preservation_survey_FINALwww.pdf http://www.indiana.edu/~medpres/documents/iu_mpi_report_public.pdf...
View ArticleReal Data, Live Data, Not just Ethnologue maps
There have been several interesting projects which have created language use visualizations over the last few years. The Ethnologue project produces a particular kind of visualization. In the past I...
View ArticleNetwork Language Documentation File Management
Road map for Drupal based Document and Meta-data management for a distributed workforce doing a Language Documentation project. Continue reading →Resetting OLAC DocumentationMARC profiles for Language...
View ArticleSoftware I would load on my Windows machine, because I can’t on my Mac…
While I was in Mexico I realized that for the way I work, virtualization was not the best solution… so here is a list of applications I would use: Scan Taylor...
View ArticleReview of Garmin eTrex Venture HC for Language Documentation
In a recent (2010-2011) Language Documentation Project we decided to also collect GIS data (GPS Coordinates), about our consultants (place of origin and place of current dwelling), about our recording...
View ArticleMetadata Magic
The company I work for has an archive for many kinds of materials. In recent times this company has moved to start a digital repository using DSpace. To facilitate contributions to the repository the...
View ArticleInteroperability of online dictionary data: A test case using WordPress as...
An abstract submitted to conference on Linked Data - Outlining how to use WordPress to be a data provider for Linguistic Dictionary Data in a LinkedData world. Continue reading →Data Sharing History in...
View ArticleLetting Go
Working in an archive, one can imagine that letting go of materials is a real challenge. Both in that it is hard to do becasue of policy, but also because it is hard to do because of the emotional...
View ArticleLanguage Documentation and the Datum
A brief look at various notations of GPS/GIS formats and how those data formats interact with maps. Continue reading →University of North Texas Collects Social Security Numbers…Metadata...
View ArticleThe iPad Team
This is a discussion and elaboration on the use of an iPad team in collecting matadata for photos. Continue reading →Metadata Interoperability at OLACRights Metadata and Rights VocabulariesOLAC and...
View ArticleLanguage maps like heat maps
There is a myriad of difficulties in overlaying language data with geographical data. But it has be done and can be done. While I was working in México on a language documentation project, I learned...
View ArticleELDP
https://www.eldp.net/en/our+grants/apply/ https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/change_requests/2022/2022-027_dzd.pdf Seems like an opportunity I would enjoy...Open Cataloging RulesSome recent...
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