2026 DELAMAN Award
The DELAMAN Award recognizes and honours early-career documenters who have done outstanding documentary work in creating a rich multimedia documentary collection of a particular language that is endangered or no longer spoken.
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DELAMAN Award 2023
The next DELAMAN Award will be awarded in 2023. The nomination deadline is 01 October 2022.
2021 DELAMAN Award goes to Karolina Grzech
The DELAMAN Award committee is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2021 DELAMAN Award is Karolina Grzech, for her archived collection of documentary materials on Upper Napo Kichwa (quw): Documentation of Language & Culture, which is archived at …
DELAMAN Franz Boas Award 2019 awarded to Michael Franjieh
We are pleased to announce that Michael Franjieh has been awarded the second Franz Boas award, in recognition of the collection The languages of northern Ambrym, Vanuatu, housed at the Endangered Language Archive (https://elar.soas.ac.uk/Collection/MPI1143013). This year we received more than …
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Sonja Riesberg receives first DELAMAN Franz Boas Award
DELAMAN is delighted to announce that the first DELAMAN Franz Boas Award has been given to Sonja Riesberg for her work on the CELD Papua corpus, containing languages from the Indonesian provinces Papua Barat and Papua. The large multilingual collection …
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How to find an archive
This blog post by Susan Smythe Kung of AILLA provides useful information about finding an archive for your endangered language research recordings, data and other materials.
Budgeting for archiving in NSF DLI-DEL proposals
DELAMAN archives have suggested a contribution of up to 8% of the direct cost rate for archiving at initial submission of the proposal. The NSF DLI-DEL solicitation for senior awards (NSF 22-615) encourages PIs to budget for archiving. NSF advises that the …
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DELAMAN meeting 2014
A DELAMAN meeting will be held in conjunction with the 3rd INNET conference in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 and 6 September 2014. The topic of this conference will be “Costing and sustainable funding of endangered language archives”. For further information, …
Project Lost & Found
DELAMAN would like to find out about collections of linguistic material that are in need of digitisation and/or archiving. If you know of any such collections, please have a look at the survey here. DELAMAN will do its best to …