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---++Treehouse Guest Lecture November 9, 2004: THO 325


---+Language documentation and description in the digital age: An overview of initiatives for enhancing the discoverability and interoperability of linguistic resources

---+++[[http://email.eva.mpg.de/~good/][Jeff Good]]

This talk will give an overview of a number of initiatives which have the
goal of developing standards and tools for the creation of "best practice"
digital language documentation. Using Bird and Simons' (2003) proposal of
seven dimensions of document "portability" as a framework for the
discussion, a number of different issues in the creation of linguistic
resources will be covered with respect to these initiatives, including
metadata standards, markup languages (with a focus on XML), and the
distinction between archival formats and presentation formats. In
addition, attempts to model and encode the logical structure of
traditional types of linguistic resources, for example, interlinearized
texts and descriptive grammars, will be discussed with the goal of
understanding how these resources should be adapted for the digital age.
An aim of the talk will be not only to identify aspects of digital
documentation which are being actively worked on but also to identify
important areas which are not being worked on at present by any
large-scale initiative.

*Note unusual location: THO 325*

-- EmilyBender - 25 Oct 2004
Topic revision: r5 - 2004-11-05 - TWikiGuest