Research, records and responsibility: Ten years of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures: Recent submissions
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The corpus of Polish Sign Language (PJM): Methodology, procedures and impact
Published 2013-01-01Polish Sign Language (polski język migowy, usually abbreviated as PJM) is a natural visual-spatial language used by the Polish Deaf community. It emerged around 1817, with the foundation of the first school for the deaf ...Open AccessPresentation -
The 'reach' of Digital Language Archives: towards criteria for evaluation
Published 2013-01-01Over the last decade, and with the help of digital media and technologies, archives (with the focus here on archives for endangered and minority languages) have extended their focus from preservation to also becoming ...Open AccessPresentation -
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 -
Using the TEI to encode manuscripts of Australian languages
Published 2013-01-01This paper will discuss the value of using the Text Encoding Initiative’s schema (TEI) for a set of manuscript vocabularies of Australian Indigenous languages collected by Daisy Bates in the early 1900s. I will first outline ...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