PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures): Recent submissions
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Reconstructing, Reinterpreting, and Repatriating Musical Instrument Data in Ethnomusicological Archives
Published 2013-01-01In-depth ethnomusicological research on musical instrument production and use is surprisingly scant. At the same time, field data compiled by ethnomusicologists since the mid-twentieth century, now housed in archives and ...Open AccessPresentation -
Language Identifying Codes: Remaining Issues, Future Prospects
Published 2013-01-01The work of organisations such as PARADISEC is crucially dependent on accurate and reliable identification of the languages which are represented in resources. For efficient discovery of resources to be possible, an ...Open AccessPresentation -
The language codes of ISO 639: A premature, ultimately unobtainable, and possibly damaging standardization
Published 2013-01-01009 Stephen Morey, Mark W. Post and Victor Friedman The language codes of ISO 639: A premature and possibly unobtainable standardization ISO 639 is an ambitious attempt to standardize and organize various types of ...Open AccessPresentation -
Integrating archiving into the Language Documentation curriculum at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Published 2013-01-01The language documentation and conservation (LD&C) track in the Master of Arts program in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (UHM) is unique in the United States and one of only a small ...Open Access -
Making the most out of the past: Retrieving and archiving old records of the Innu language
Published 2013-01-01In a situation of language endangerment, communities express a strong need for the documentation and preservation of their language which is increasingly threatened as the older generations of monolinguals pass away. This ...Open Access