Useful links on:
The EMELD School of Best Practice
A wealth of information about technologies, methods, tools, and
more, from experts across the spectrum of language documentation.
http://emeld.org/school/index.html
Ask An Expert
Get advice from a panel of experts for your particular problem.
http://emeld.org/school/ask-expert/index.html
Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity
This list is aimed at providing information and sharing expertise among
the community of linguists, especially those working with endangered
languages, particularly about tools for doing language work, such as tools
for recording, transcription, media-linking, corpus construction and
analysis, interlinearising, lexicography, and so on.
http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/thieberger/RNLD/RNLDmailing.html
Language Archives Newsletter
The Language Archives Newsletter provides news and informative articles
about topics in endangered languages, especially archiving, fieldwork,
language documentation, data and media management, computer tools, and
developments in relevant technologies. LAN warmly welcomes submissions of
news, reviews, and articles from anyone working in these areas.
http://www.mpi.nl/LAN/
Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
Information about the HRELP program and also lots of useful information
about language documentation in general.
http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/whatisit/
Documentation of Endangered Languages (DOBES)
Information about the DOBES program and also information
about language documentation in general.
http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/INFOpages/program/index.html
Transient Languages & Cultures
A blog with lots of useful information and pertinent articles produced
by linguists who work in the Transient Building at the University of
Sydney.
http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/elac/
Interactive bibliography of technology
The Reading Room at the School of Best Practice.
http://emeld.org/school/readingroom/index.html
Interactive software database
Also at the School of Best Practice.
http://emeld.org/school/toolroom/software/index.cfm
Endangered Language Query Rooms
allow people using, researching and preserving endangered languages
to ask and answer questions in language-specific online communities.
http://emeld.rosettaproject.org/
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
From Summer Institute of Linguistics International.
An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s
6,912 known living languages.
http://www.ethnologue.com/
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics - Nijmegen (MPI)
Many projects, and links to software and other useful information
for linguists
http://www.mpi.nl/
Software from Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Including Elan (transcription, annotation, and alignment of texts with
audio & video recordings);
IMDI Editor (corpus management tool);
and several other useful tools.
Versions for Mac, Windows, Linux.
http://www.mpi.nl/tools/index.html
Transana (transcription of audio & video)
Windows only; Mac version pending.
http://www.transana.org/
Transcriber: a tool for segmenting, labeling and transcribing
speech.
Versions in English and French.
Versions for Mac, Windows, Linux.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/mirror/Transcriber/
Praat (phonetic analysis)
Versions for Mac, Windows, Linux.
http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/Sidney/praate/frames.html
The Field Linguist's Toolbox, from the Summer Institute
of Linguistics
Toolbox is a data management and analysis tool for field linguists. It
is especially useful for maintaining lexical data, and for parsing and
interlinearizing text, but it can be used to manage virtually any kind
of data.
Windows only, but Mac and Linux due in 2006.
http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/index.htm
Audacity from SourceForge (audio editing)
Simple program for digitizing, editing, and converting audio data.
Versions for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audiamus, by Nick Thieberger
A tool for building corpora of linked transcripts and digitised media.
http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/thieberger/audiamus.htm
Transcribe!
Shareware music notation assistance software developed
by Andy Robinson. For Windows, Mac and Linux. There is an active user
group (yahoo groups) and Andy has incorporated lots of useful features
at user request. Features include control of playback speed, frequency
filters, flexible text markup, pitch analysis of selected waveform
with piano keyboard to check pitch, tempo computation, and in the
latest version integration with USB footpedals.
http://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html
The Vermont Folklife Center, Audio Field Recording Equipment Guide
A very useful and easy to understand guide to different recording
technologies and their use in ethnographic recording.
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/res_audioequip.htm
The Matrix Oral History Tutorial
This tutorial is intended to assist researchers in implementing several
important aspects of audio technology in the field, studio, and research
lab. It presents a set of best practices in the recording, processing, and
analysis of acoustic speech signals.
http://www.historicalvoices.org/oralhistory/audio-tech.html
The Transom: Jay Allison, The Basics (of field recording)
Aimed at reporters, but relevant to linguists.
http://www.transom.org/tools/recording_interviewing/200101.basics.jallison.html
Video equipment recommendations from DOBES
Useful tips especially for additional equipment, such as filters and
cables and batteries.
http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/INFOpages/applicants/dobes-recomm2.html
General information about video on the internet
Also links to free video editing software and information.
http://www.internetvideomag.com/FreeVideoTools.htm
Microsoft MovieMaker for Beginners
Aimed at vacationers, but with a few very good ideas for making a
a decent video recording.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/default.mspx
Grab bag of how-to articles about video
http://www.aboutvideoediting.com/hardware/start.shtml
http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/whatarevideoformats/
http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/editing/f/MPEG2_ro.htm
PC World Digital Video cameras buying guide
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1847886895
Lists of freeware (for video)
http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/softwarereviews/tp/bestfreesw_ro.htm
Apple iMovie HD 6 (free w/new Mac; w/out $20, inc. iDVD)
http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Microsoft Movie Maker (free download)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx
Doulos SIL Unicode IPA
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=DoulosSILfont
Keyboard layouts: General explanations
http://wordprocessing.about.com/od/wordprocessingsoftware/l/blSymbolkeys.htm
Programs for defining your own keyboard
Windows: Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC)
click here
How to install MSKLC:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=ukelele
A Gentle Introduction to XML
By Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. and Lou Burnard, 2001.
Chapter 2 of TEI P4: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and
Interchange, XML-compatible edition. TEI Consortium.
http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/SG.html
U.T. System Office of General Counsel - Intellectual Property
Rights
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/intellectualproperty/index.htm
Berkeley Digital Library SunSite
A large collection of links to resources about copyrights and
intellectual property rights.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Copyright/
World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.org/
Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights: A pathfinder for Native People,
Students, Educators, and the General Public
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~vlibrary/edres/pathfinders/eckenrode2/pathfinder.html
American Association of Anthropology Ethics Homepage
http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethics.htm
Electronic Metastructures for Endangered Language Data
http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/emeld
Open Language Archives Community (OLAC)
http://www.language-archives.org
International Standards for Language Engineering
http://www.mpi.nl/IMDI
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://dublincore.org/
International Standards Organization
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH)
NINCH is a diverse coalition of organizations created to assure
leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital
environment.
Especially useful is the NINCH Guide to Good Practice (link on
this page.)
http://www.ninch.org/
Open Language Archives Community (OLAC)
http://www.language-archives.org
Distributed Access Management for Language Resources (DAM-LR)
DAM-LR proposes to develop and deploy an infrastructure for the
European research community that is interested in an easy management
of and access to linguistic resources of all kinds such as large
(multimedia) corpora, lexicons, grammar descriptions and others.
http://www.mpi.nl/DAM-LR/
International Standards for Language Engineering
Metadata Initiative
http://www.mpi.nl/IMDI
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://dublincore.org/
International Standards Organization
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage
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