data base

[Heather Souter]

Taanshi, hello, Tammy,

(My apologies to Claire for addressing this to her first time around!)

I hope you don't mind me jumping in with a suggestion that I think has been
made already....  Have you checked out Miromaa yet?    You might want to
take a quick look at http://www.miromaa.org.au/Miromaa/Miromaa-Benefits.html
Daryn McKenny at Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association (ACRA) is very
approachable and helpful.  He can be reached at  daryn at acra.org.au

Eekoshi pitamaa.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Tammy DeCoteau <tdc.aaia at verizon.net>wrote:

>  Claire,
>
> Thank you for your suggestion for a simpler database.  I did try two of
> the suggestions, and yes, they appear to be more difficult than I had
> anticipated.
>
> My goal is to archive the materials in some way, and without the necessary
> knowledge of what type of verb a word is, using some of the data basis
> seems daunting.  We are not linguists, simply Native American people
> working to save our languages in whatever way we can.
>
> Tammy DeCoteau
> AAIA Native Language Program
>
> Jan 13, 2013 12:49:45 PM, ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU wrote:
>
> Hi Tammy,
> I have a few suggestions in addition to what the others have said.
> Sorry I'm a bit late to this conversation.
>
> . evernote.com. If the people in your office don't like setting up
> computer programs, the suggestions people have made here might be a
> bit fiddly to get running. Evernote is very simple. It's just a set of
> text files that you can sync over several computers. You have
> "notebooks" that you can store things in. I have a notebook for my
> work notes, one for recipes, one for things I need to do at home, etc.
> It's a great way to keep lots of things in one place. It's free for
> under 60mb a month. Searching within evernote is very easy and it's
> all text files so it's easy to export. You can also store audio,
> video, pdfs, photos, etc in the same program.
> . wesay.org Some people use this for dictionaries. I haven't used it
> myself but they have a web site with examples.
> . lexiquepro.com is for dictionaries. It could probably also be used
> to store phrases and sentences too.
> . If you want to make your own database with its own fields, filemaker
> or access are the main ones. That's probably overkill for what you
> need though.
>
> Claire
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Tammy DeCoteau **wrote:
> > Mitakuyapi (My relatives),
> >
> > In the ten years our language program has been operating we have amassed
> > several files of different words and phrases in our language. Many of
> these
> > words that are not in the missionary dictionaries we commonly use and
> none
> > of the phrases are in dictionaries. We have saved every scrap of paper on
> > which something in our language was written down.
> >
> > Sometimes, one of the elders will rush into our office on Monday morning,
> > blurt out a phrase in Dakotah and tell us what it means in English. That
> > means to me that over the weekend, the elder thought of something that
> > hadn't been said and wanted us to save it. So many of these are written
> on
> > post-in-notes or on the back of another sheet of paper and all are saved
> in
> > what we call, "Word and Phrases, Volume I, Words and Phrases, Volume II,"
> > etc.
> >
> > Because of funding issues our language program's future is uncertain. I
> > want to take care of cataloging these words and phrases so that we can
> place
> > a copy in our archives in Princeton for future use.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any database that is already created where we could
> > easily catalog these?
> >
> > Tammy DeCoteau
> > AAIA Native Language Program
>
>
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