LSA Annual Meeting Albuquerque 2006

[Jeff Good]

Dear All,

Based on the last few messages, the consensus seems to be a how-to
tutorial about audio and video recording would be the thing to do at LSA
2006 in Albuquerque.

The next thing to do, then, is put together a list of topics and possible
people to speak on those topics. Let me suggest an initial list, based
partly on the discussion the last few days:

1. Audio formats (with possible speaker Chilin Shih?)

2. Audio recording (hardware, microphones, setup, etc. with possible
speaker Bartek Plichta?)

3. Video formats (no idea on a speaker--someone from DoBeS?)

4. Video recording (no idea--but maybe someone from DoBeS?)

[A DoBeS-funded officemate of mind handed me a DoBeS-created binder. It
contains information on video recording which would be perfect for us--so,
certainly one of the video talks should be from them, if possible.]

5. IPR and Ethics in audio and video (acknowledging that this will be an
imperfect presentation--ideally, it will not be general IPR and Ethics but
focus on issues specific to audio and video [especially the latter]--I
don't know of a possible speaker)

6. Audio, video, and metadata (including, hopefully, discussion of OLAC
metadata for audio and video? What shape is it in? Heidi, would you be
appropriate for this?)

7. Audio, video, and genres (what should be recorded in audio, what should
be recorded in video, are some genres more suited to one or the other? I
don't have any good ideas for speakers)

8. Recording for the future: How to record keeping possible uses by
linguists, speaker communities, and the public in mind (someone at Austin
in CILLA as a speaker? Someone at the ANLC?).

9. Recording and funding (we could ask Helen Aguera, again, but I don't
know if we should save our "invitations" for her or not--I'd be willing
to do research on this and hope it turns into a 15 minute talk)

We had nine presentations last year--so, I'll stop with this.

Ideas 7 and 8 I kind of made up--maybe they're not well thought through
or maybe they should be replaced. Sorry I don't have more speaker
suggestions. This is not an area I have great expertise in.

Two other thoughts:

It would be good to try to involve the University of New Mexico in some
way--especially because we might want local help at some point. The only
member of their faculty I know at all is Joan Bybee, who doesn't seem
like an ideal contact for this. Based on their web page, Melissa Axelrod
and Christine Sims might be good contacts. We could also consider
involving the Wilcoxes, who work on sign languages (and, therefore, might
be interested in the video aspect). Does anyone have any suggestions
about whether or not this is a good idea and who to contact?

It would be nice, I think, to try to invite representatives of the local
indigenous communities given the conference's location in the Southwest. A
UNM contact would probably be able to help us with this. It would be
_really_ nice if we could get some funding for such a thing. Since, in the
end, multimedia documentation may be used more by descendants of speakers
than linguists, this would be a good opportunity to get their input. Does
anyone have any thoughts about this, too?

Jeff