<div dir="ltr">Robert Forkel who works on CLLD at MPI-SHH in Jena would like to offer a comment on public resources and their hosting to this list. He can't post here though, not an ALT-member, so I'll forward what he wants to add:<div><br><div><span style="font-size:13px">"I think it's not </span><span style="font-size:13px">only about Open Access, but about the fact that MPI Leipzig made the data as well </span><span style="font-size:13px">as the software available under licenses which make it possible for any </span><span style="font-size:13px">institution to take over at any point. I think making transfer of </span><span style="font-size:13px">ownership easy is the best realistic strategy for services of the type </span><span style="font-size:13px">of glottolog under the given circumstances - i.e. without hope of </span><span style="font-size:13px">unlimited support by a single institution."</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>/Hedvig</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Hedvig Skirgård</b><br>PhD Candidate<br><span style="color:rgb(196,89,17)">The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">School of Culture, History and Language<br>College of Asia and the Pacific<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Rm 4203, H.C. Coombs Building (#9)<br>The Australian National University<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Acton ACT 2601<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Australia<br><br>Ph: +61 (0)451 878 060<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">E: <a href="mailto:hedvig.skirgard@anu.edu.au" target="_blank">hedvig.skirgard@anu.edu.au</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 January 2016 at 15:31, Hedvig Skirgård <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hedvig.skirgard@gmail.com" target="_blank">hedvig.skirgard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you Larry. I appreciate that this discussion has moved to also include larger issues in research funding, it answers questions I as a junior researcher am currently worrying about. I recently took the time to read up on Ethnologue's funding for example.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering what the Ethnologue's job is/should be. I primarily use it when writing blog posts and doing public outreach - not as a primary source of data in my research, and there is obviously a large segment of the users that are not academics at all. A pay-wall is actually not that disruptive to me. I'm wondering for how many others it actually is. Boycotting Ethnologue sounds most unnecessary and bad. However, perhaps what will happen is that more and more linguists start viewing it as a product for the non-academic public?</div><div><br></div><div>Ethnologue have been very good lately by the way in responding on twitter and elsewhere to issues, thanks goes to Steve <span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Moitozo II, M.P. Lewis</span> and who-ever is manning the Ethnologue twitter-account.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm interested in learning more about funding for similar repositories in other fields and if they're facing the same issues. Here in Australia I know that the situation is getting dire, not as dire in the US though as far as I understand. How is for example GenBank funded and what are happening to them? <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sidenote, if you do want to follow news like this might I recommend subscribing to these venues?<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://dlc.hypotheses.org/" target="_blank">https://dlc.hypotheses.org/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog" target="_blank">http://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog</a><br></div><div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/theethnologue" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/theethnologue</a><br><a href="http://languagesoftheworld.info" target="_blank">http://languagesoftheworld.info</a></div><div><a href="http://humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.com</a> (self promotion, I know but still)<br></div><div><br></div><div>These blogs also feature interesting research news, but less typology</div><div><div><a href="http://dejonedge.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://dejonedge.blogspot.com</a></div><div></div></div><div><a href="http://www.replicatedtypo.com" target="_blank">http://www.replicatedtypo.com</a></div><div><a href="http://phylonetworks.blogspot.com.au" target="_blank">http://phylonetworks.blogspot.com.au</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>The Humans blog can also be followed on tumblr, twitter and facebook. It seems like more and more people are finding out science news and new research on twitter nowadays than regular RSS-feeds or mailing lists.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>/Hedvig</div></font></span><div><br></div><div>p.s. there's also a list of links of blogs, video channels etc on different linguistics topics. It contains more entertainment and basic introduction to linguistic though and less research than the above listed venues.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10H1iOjYrYVYMIiXuCtDUEcVz1iTP2213l2jTLYH5mxk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/10H1iOjYrYVYMIiXuCtDUEcVz1iTP2213l2jTLYH5mxk/edit?usp=sharing</a><br></div><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt"><b>Hedvig Skirgård</b><br>PhD Candidate<br><span style="color:rgb(196,89,17)">The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">School of Culture, History and Language<br>College of Asia and the Pacific<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Rm 4203, H.C. Coombs Building (#9)<br>The Australian National University<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Acton ACT 2601<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">Australia<br><br>Ph: <a href="tel:%2B61%20%280%29451%20878%20060" value="+61451878060" target="_blank">+61 (0)451 878 060</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt">E: <a href="mailto:hedvig.skirgard@anu.edu.au" target="_blank">hedvig.skirgard@anu.edu.au</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div>
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