Announcing the conference “Research, records and responsibility (RRR): Ten years of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)”
Dates: 2nd-3rd December 2013
Venue: University of Melbourne, Australia
Keynote speaker:
Shubha Chaudhuri
Associate Director General (Academic)
Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology
American Institute of Indian Studies
Gurgaon, India
For details and the call for papers see: http://paradisec.org.au/2013Conf.html
This will coincide with the Workshop on digital tools and methods for language documentation on the 3rd-4th December 2013
Keynote speakers:
Alexandre Arkhipov (Moscow State University) on methods used by his research group to build an integrated documentation and analysis system.
Andreas Witt (Head of the TEI-SIG, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim) on the Text Encoding Initiative-Special Interest Group and TEI for linguists.
For details and the call for papers see: http://paradisec.org.au/2013ParadisecToolsMethods.html
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As it happens, a relevant and interesting article by the anthropologist Thomas Widlok has just appeared: ‘Analogical problems with digital data’ The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 14.2(2013),183-194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2013.76869