31.2312, FYI: HELP for Endangered Legacy Collections

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Subject: 31.2312, FYI: HELP for Endangered Legacy Collections

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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 23:26:46
From: Kate Lindsey [klindsey at bu.edu]
Subject: HELP for Endangered Legacy Collections

 
A project sponsored by CELP and led by Kate Lindsey (klindsey at bu.edu) and
Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada (jrosesla at ualberta.ca)

HELP for Endangered Legacy Collections is a new initiative from within the
Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP) to assist in
the digitization, archiving, and processing of endangered language data. This
initiative attempts to tackle two concerns within our field: (1) the fact that
many senior researchers nearing retirement need assistance in digitizing,
archiving and processing their legacy collections of endangered language data
and (2) the fact that there is an increasing number of graduate students who
wish to undertake work on endangered languages but are not able to collect
their own data due to a variety of reasons, e.g., travel restrictions
(especially in the wake of the current global pandemic), lack of funding,
family obligations, health concerns, and so on.

We are soliciting interest from senior researchers with an existing collection
or collections in need of archiving and from junior researchers who are
interested in joining an archiving project. Upon receipt of the surveys, we
will manually pair up senior and junior researchers. In particular, we are
looking to host projects that 1) are urgent whether because of the vitality of
the language or the state of the data collection, 2) meet the needs of both
the senior and junior researchers in terms of opportunities for further
research, publication, presentations, etc. and 3) can begin promptly with high
priority for both researchers. We strongly encourage projects that involve
continued collaboration with interested language communities and repatriation
of the data to the communities of origin.

We plan to select two pairs by August 15, 2020. After connecting senior and
junior researchers, we will provide resources and advice to help the projects
get started and will remain in regular contact with the teams to address any
issues that may arise. At the end of the project, we will follow up with each
researcher individually to collect feedback that will help us create better
resources and advice for future pairs of researchers.

Senior researcher interest survey: https://forms.gle/b1tgUxC37Q9zbsLq5

Junior researcher interest survey: https://forms.gle/S8BfsQiryhZ6CBz47
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Typology





 



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