upcoming events

[Heidi Johnson]

Dear all,
I promised to post the news and notes from July's EMELD meeting at the
beginning of fall semester, so here it comes. For those of you who
weren't
there, we had a very useful meeting in Detroit one evening. Participants
included Gary Simons, Jeff Good, Barbara Need, Jim Mason, Emily Bender,
and other people that I couldn't hear because it was a very noisy bar -
er,
meeting environment.

We talked about the 2 major upcoming outreach events, both of which will
occur at the LSA annual meeting in San Francisco in January.
http://www.lsadc.org/annmeet/index.html

Jeff & I just submitted the final proposal for a 3.5 hour tutorial
entitled
"Archiving and language resources, or how to keep your data from
becoming
endangered." We have a good roster of speakers who will present topics
about which we feel the field needs lots of educating, including making
archival
quality recordings, working with legacy data, etc etc. Here it is, if
anyone wants
to read it:
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We have also registered for a booth in the publisher's room, but that's
a large
topic, so I'll post another message just for that.

In Detroit, we also did some brain-storming about future outreach
ideas. Several
people suggested linguistic subfields that we really ought to try to
connect with:
- linguistic anthropology (the AAA meeting, specifically)
- sociolinguists (NWAV)
- phoneticians (Emily must have suggested Richard White at UWashington?)
- corpus linguistics

If anyone has connections in any of these domains, perhaps you might
consider
giving a talk about archiving and X, where X is best practice in some
linguistic
subfield. It would be great to get more linguists creating more quality
archives
and joining OLAC in droves.

Someone (Barbara?) suggested that it would be good to do an active
search
of what language-related archives are out there and solicit them to
join OLAC.
This is also a great idea, but I'm already over-booked, so I'm not
volunteering!
Is anyone in this group a member of the Society of American Archivists,
by any
chance? That might be another good connection.

Someone also suggested that we connect with medievalists, who are
certainly
digitizing up a storm and putting all of their (blissfully
copyright-expired) materials
on the web. But I worry that they are too much in the
literature&history camp, and
not so much in the language camp. It could be a stretch for our
metadata keywords.

I hope that lots of us will be at LSA in January. It looks like there
will be lots of
archiving energy at the meeting. Maybe we can have another outreach
get-together
in a somewhat less noisy "meeting environment". Chinese food, anyone?

Heidi



Heidi Johnson, PhD					ailla at ailla.org
Project Manager					www.ailla.utexas.org
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
Dept. of Anthropology, EPS 1.130
1 University Station C3200
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
U.S.A.