{"id":6950,"date":"2012-07-04T07:35:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2012-07-04T07:35:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T20:35:02","slug":"charting-vanishing-voices-a-collaborative-workshop-to-map-endangered-oral-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2012\/07\/charting-vanishing-voices-a-collaborative-workshop-to-map-endangered-oral-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"

A two-day conference titled ‘Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures’<\/a> ran on June 29\/30 in Cambridge, UK. Organised by the World Oral Literature Project<\/a>, the conference brought together a range of ‘scholars, digital archivists and international organisations to share experiences of mapping ethno-linguistic diversity using interactive digital technologies.’ <\/p>\n

A discussion of the conference at the Arctic Anthropology blog gives a good overview<\/a>, so, rather than duplicate what you can read there, I’ll just add some useful pointers to things I discovered at the conference:
\n– I didn’t know that the data under the UNESCO atlas of endangered languages<\/a> can be downloaded freely<\/a>.
\n– There can be a model of user-pays for information that adds value to open source material and is commercially viable (Alexander Street Press<\/a>).
\n– There are students at SOAS who have produced a great website of geocoded language information<\/a>.
\n– The Glottolog\/langdoc project<\/a> has 175,000 references linked to what 94,000 what they call ‘languoids’ (languages, dialects, families).
\n– There is a great project at the CNRS for making media available online (http:\/\/telemeta.org\/<\/a>) and for annotating it. They also use the Vamp plugin<\/a> that looks interesting as a way of analysing and extracting information from audio files.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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