DELAMAN meeting 2006
DELAMAN IV (2006): The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archive Network
2-3 November 2006
Endangered Languages Archive, School of Oriental and African Studies
London, UK
Preservation in rapidly changing contexts
The DELAMAN archives are an informal, international group of archives that share interests in endangered languages, cultures, and performance traditions. These interests range from wider issues posed by endangerment and loss of traditions, to trends and challenges in technical management. This meeting focusses on our contexts; linguistic and language communities, funding sources, academic and publishing institutions, and related domains such as videography and performing arts. What is common across all these contexts is that they are all changing extremely rapidly. We hope to come to better understanding of how these contexts affect us – what opportunities and challenges they present, how to react to them, and how to play our part in leading change in our areas of interest.
Guest speaker: Richard Wright of the BBC Archives and Presto Space
See below for information about travel, accommodation, refreshments and contacts.
Program
Last updated 5 November 2006.
| Thursday 2 November | ||
| 9:15-9:30am | Welcome | |
| 9:30-11:00am | From collections to archives forum | Jacquelijn Ringersma, MPI Nijmegen: From static corpora to dynamic collections |
| Flores Farfán, CIESAS: Language documentation & education in Mexico; what is the role of archives? | ||
| Heidi Johnson, AILLA, From collections to archives: what lies between? | ||
| Richard Wright, BBC Archives (invited speaker): How to preserve audio (and video) | ||
| 11:00-11:30am | Morning tea | |
| 11:30am-12:30pm | Media opportunities and obstacles forum | Linda Barwick, Paradisec: Media madness I – Paradisec video trial 2006 |
| David Nathan, ELAR: Media madness II: Video and language documentation: panacea or madness? | ||
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch (supplied) | |
| 1:30-2:30pm | Changing practices forum | Jacquelijn Ringersma, MPI Nijmegen: GE: A flexible presentation platform for LR |
| Jeff Good, MPI Leipzig: Developing lockers at LELA | ||
| 2:30-3:00pm | Afternoon tea | |
| 3:00-4:00pm | Discussion topics | TBA |
| 7:00pm- | Workshop dinner (venue TBA) | |
| Friday 3 November | ||
| 9:30-11:00am | Metadata forum | Daan Broeder, MPI Nijmegen: Depositors’ usage of IMDI metadata |
| David Evans, ELAR: The ELAR metadata set | ||
| Jeff Good, MPI Leipzig: Using RDF in a linguistics archive | ||
| Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U:Language codes | ||
| 11:00-11:30am | Morning tea | |
| 11:30am-12:30pm | Citation forms and processes forum | Jeff Good, MPI Leipzig: Towards a citation standard |
| Daan Broeder, MPI Nijmegen: Citing archived objects | ||
| Heidi Johnson, AILLA: Citation examples and recommendations | ||
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch (supplied) | |
| 1:30-2:30pm | Other topics and LSA liaison | What it means to archive your data DELAMAN communications (website, newsletter etc) DELAMAN membership Update on constitution |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Afternoon tea | |
| 3:00-4:00pm | Discussion topics and close | Action points Next meeting |
The meeting is held in conjunction with an ELAP workshop:
“What Counts (and what doesn’t)?: Data and Methodology in Language Documentation”
SOAS, 4-5 November 2006
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Information on travel, accommodation and refreshments
1. Travel to SOAS:
London Heathrow is the nearest airport. It is very convenient to reach SOAS from there. The Piccadilly line runs from Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3 and 4 to Russell Tube Station, taking 50 minutes; cost is £3.80 (about 5 euro). It takes about 2 minutes by walk to reach SOAS or the Tavistock Hotel from Russell Tube Station. If you arrive at other airports (e.g. Stansted, Gatwick), you may need to take a train to London and then take another underground to Russell Square; typical cost will be about £15 each way. Do not take a taxi as they are very expensive.
2. Accommodation:
Accommodation will be arranged according to your requirements, the default location is the Tavistock Hotel, which is a mid-priced hotel (about £60 single per night) about 3 minutes away from SOAS. Chaithra Puttaswamy will make bookings for you if you request, and you will need to take care of the payment.
3. Useful links:
SOAS in Bloomsbury – interactive street map
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/pdfdocs/colourmap.pdf (London transport)
http://www.soas.ac.uk/contact/location.cfm?navid=1110 (SOAS location)
http://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/tavistock.htm (Tavistock Hotel)
4. Refreshments
ELAR will host a dinner for DELAMAN members on 2nd November 2006. Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided during the meeting. There are many restaurants and bars in the vicinity of SOAS.
5. Contacts
Please contact Chaithra Puttaswamy about accommodation and other administrative matters, and David Nathan with any other enquiries.