10.1949, All: LINGUIST Vacation, LSA Invitation

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1949. Fri Dec 17 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1949, All: LINGUIST Vacation, LSA Invitation

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            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>
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1)
Date:  Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:02:07 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Helen Aristar Dry" <hdry at linguistlist.org>
Subject:  LINGUIST Vacation

2)
Date:  Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:06:25 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Helen Aristar Dry" <hdry at linguistlist.org>
Subject:  LSA

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:02:07 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Helen Aristar Dry" <hdry at linguistlist.org>
Subject:  LINGUIST Vacation

	
	
	
	LINGUIST will be on vacation from December 22 through January 9,
	2000.  Any messages we receive before midnight on December 21
	will be posted before we shut down for the holidays. Except for
	emergencies, any we receive after that will be posted when we
	return from the annual meeting of the LSA. (see message #2)
	
	We'll post urgent messages even during the break, but since we
	won't be logging on to the LINGUIST account every day, you need
	to call our attention to your posting.  Please put "URGENT" in the
	subject line, send the message to linguist at linguistlist.org, and
	also send a copy to a moderator.
	
	We wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a successful New
	Year!
	
	The LINGUIST staff:
	


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:06:25 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Helen Aristar Dry" <hdry at linguistlist.org>
Subject:  LSA



	
	No, we are not virtual people...
	
	The LINGUIST crew will materialize, in the flesh, at the annual
	meeting of the LSA. We'd like to talk with you and listen to your
	comments about LINGUIST. We'd especially like to hear your
	suggestions about 2 exciting new projects.
	
	The first of these enterprises, for which we recently received
	funding from the NSF, is the archiving of multiple linguistics- and
	language-related mailing lists on our site. We want to set up one
	central site where all, or most, of the lists relevant to the discipline
	will be available, and where a researcher will be able to search all
	of them at once, tracking down in one operation all mailing list
	postings that might be relevant to his or her research.  We already
	archive some 56 linguistic lists, which you can see at the URL:
	http://linguistlist.org/list-archives.html but we would like to have your
	suggestions for making the archive as comprehensive and useful
	as possible.
	
	We would especially like to hear from list owners who might wish
	to participate in this project. We'd like to emphasize that joining
	this archive will entail no extra work on your part, nor will you have
	to change the way your list is run, or where it is run from. All that is
	required is your permission to subscribe our site to your list.
	
	The second and perhaps most important of our projects, however,
	is to produce a single search facility which ranges over ALL the
	information on the LINGUIST site.  We intend to categorize all the
	information we store by linguistic subfield and language treated
	(where relevant), so that anyone working on, say, Russian syntax,
	would be able to type in either "Russian" or "syntax" and access at
	one click all the dissertation abstracts, book or journal
	announcements, calls for papers, course syllabi, names of
	linguists or programs specializing in these areas, etc., which are
	listed on the LINGUIST site.  We also intend to begin collecting
	other types of information, e.g., on talks and papers delivered,
	bibliographies, unpublished grammars, and sound files.  Our hope
	is to produce a truly comprehensive, truly international archive of
	electronic information and meta-information.  But it's a very
	ambitious project!  And we need your ideas and your support to
	make it successful.
	
	We would welcome the chance to discuss these in person. We
	would also like to introduce our excellent student crew.  If you have
	appreciated their hard work this year--as we certainly have! --
	please take a moment to stop by and make their acquaintance.
	
	We will be in PDR #1 on Friday, January 7th from 9-10 am, and
	from 2-4 pm on Saturday, January 8th. We hope to see you then.
	
	Sincerely,
	
	Helen, Anthony, Andrew
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	

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