Boston 2004, tutorial

[Heidi Johnson]

Jeff wrote:
> What I'd need by April 15th is a 500-page abstract for each presenter.

Please tell us you meant 500 WORD abstracts!!! If it has to be 500 pages,
then only Peter Wittenburg will be able to present!

I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner, you're having to do all the work. I
think your program looks great. Should we call this tutorial something
like Archiving and Language Documentation? It's very documentation-
oriented. Is that catchy enough to attract people, or should we get the
word 'digital' in there somewhere?

We could get everyone to do a talk that's about both their particular
archive/organization and also about how archiving fits into a language
documentation program, which I feel is a point we need to make loudly and
often.

I've refined your list a little bit:

Jeff - CBOLD / starting a new archive
Heidi - AILLA / archiving & americanist linguistics and/or corpus mgmt
Gary H. - ANLC / legacy materials  & why we need them
??? - Berkeley Survey / legacy materials, or maybe we could get them to
      talk about people who use their archive & why
??? - AIATSIS or PARADISEC / this would undoubtedly be about rights and/or
      about community archives, if it's a PARADISEC person.
Steven? - OLAC / global registry and search for a better world
MPI person - IMDI / metadata for language documentation materials and/or
      corpus management
Debbie - Unicode and archiving minority language materials
Helen - EMELD / overview of the School of Best Practice and one of her
      inspiring summaries

That's nine. Half an hour each makes 4.5, so there wouldn't be time for a
break or questions. If we can make each presentation 20 minutes, it would
all fit. Maybe we could do a panel Q&A sort of thing.

Most of these people have done more or less these very talks before,
so they should be able to come up with abstracts on short notice. I'm going
to meet a whole bunch of language documentation and archive people in
Australia in the next two weeks, surely one of them will be able to come.
And I promise to help write that 2-5 page overview when I get back.

This could be really nice. I don't know what other sorts of endangered
language events are being planned, but the community in general is always
glad to see more attention given.

Heidi
>
> Heidi Johnson--How to prepare metadata for depositing materials to an
> archive (or something like that)
>
> Debbie Anderson--Unicode and archiving
>
> Gary Holton--Working with legacy materials in an archive (?)
>
> Someone from AIATSIS (not sure what topic--maybe the relationship between
> the documenter, archive, and the community--and "rights" management?)
>
> Someone from the Survey at Berkeley (maybe on either, preparing older
> materials for archiving--as a generation of mid-20th century Americanists
> retires, this is likely to happen more and more or digitizing older
> materials--since they may be starting a project on that soon)
>
> Me--I'll talk about how to start a new digital archive, with lessons
> learned from CBOLD (maybe I'll see if Ronald Sprouse wants to talk on
> this, too)
>
> Someone from EMELD (Michael--do you think there would be interest?)--They
> could talk about the use of tools which make producing archive formats
> easier
>
> Someone from OLAC--to talk about metadata issues
>
> Someone from DOBES--about organizing resources into a proper hierarchy?
>
> Is archiving at the Endangered Language Program far enough along for their
> to be a way they could contribute?
>
> Okay--that seems like enough (actually, it's too many, but I'm assuming
> not everyone will be able to participate).
>
> Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Ideally, I'd like to
> e-mail individual contributors late this week/early next week to see if
> they're interested.
>
> What I'd need by April 15th is a 500-page abstract for each presenter.
> We'll also need a 2-5 page overview by then. The 4/15 deadline is to allow
> the Program Committee to make comments and suggestions. Then, there's
> another deadline for September 1.
>
> Jeff