Meeting at EMELD workshop

[Michael Appleby]

Hi Jeff,

I'm so sorry I did not reply to your previous messages.  I'm pleased the
list is working okay now.

I think it's a very good idea to talk about the Seven Dimensions paper, as
we really want the wider community to be talking about Steven and Gary's
recommendations.  Actually, Helen just asked to me to write a couple of
non-technical Best Practise pages for our E-MELD site, which I guess
should be up in the next day or two, so I hope I'll have something to
contribute to our discussions.

Either of your suggestions for meeting times would be fine.

Best,

Michael


On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Jeff Good wrote:

Hello everyone,

Since most of the people on the Outreach Working Group will be at the
EMELD workshop coming up in a few weeks, I wanted to propose that we
meet to discuss an agenda for the group in the upcoming months. I have
looked at the current program and, based on that, I'd like to suggest
two times. We could meet over dinner on Saturday, July 12th or during
Lunch on Sunday, July 13th.

We don't have to settle on a time now--especially since it is entirely
possible the schedule might change, but if you all could keep the idea
of a meeting around then in mind, it would be good.

There are various items we could put on an agenda. The first thing I
would like to discuss is an article for IJAL about digital archiving.
Gary Holton has already made a great start on this, and I've attached
his draft below. Using this as a starting point, we could all comment
on what else we think the article might need--Gary has already put
"slots" in the article for summaries of archiving efforts at AILLA and
the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages.

One question I'd like to pose to the group about an article for IJAL
(and which we could begin to discuss on e-mail) is whether we should
expand its coverage based on the content of the soon-to-be-published
article by Bird and Simons to appear in Language which can be found at:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb/home/papers/0204020/0204020-revised.pdf

The article, entitled, "Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language
Documentation and Description," is part of the EMELD readings. As we
all read it, we might want to consider, what the relevance is of the
ideas in the article to an Americanist audience (or a field-work
oriented areal audience generally).

Related to this, a second item I think we could discuss is how Bird and
Simon's article relates to outreach efforts more generally. What I
think would be valuable here is that, while you're reading the best
practice recommendations, make a note as to which aspects of them might
be unclear to someone not yet too involved with digital technology.
This might reflect an area where the this working group should write a
"Gentle Introduction" document.

These are just some suggestions--if anyone else has anything they'd
like to add, please post it to the list.

Jeff