Easy-access language software development

[Daryn McKenny]

Thanks Nick,

So here is the link where you can download and then ask any specific
questions to me, no probs at all.

http://www.aboriginalhunter.com/acra/language%20database.pdf

Thanks

Daryn

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Thieberger [mailto:thien at unimelb.edu.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:24 PM
To: Daryn McKenny; Resource-Network-Linguistic-Diversity at unimelb.edu.au
Subject: RE: Easy-access language software development

Daryn,

Best might be to put the .pdf file on a website and send the list the
URL

ta

Nick

At 11:50 AM +1000 5/5/05, Daryn McKenny wrote:
>Hi Andrea,
>
>I am from an Aboriginal Organisation in Newcastle NSW and we have
>designed our own Language tools, they are still in development, but we
>have been using them with our language work for over 12 months now.
>
>The best way that I could let you know about what we do is send you
some
>information.  It is a 1.7mb pdf file, so I am not sure whether the List
>is okay with that.  If someone could let me know I will attach it so
>everyone can have access to it.
>
>I am sure that the path that we have taken will go close to answering a
>lot of your points.
>
>Regards
>
>Daryn McKenny
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrea Berez [mailto:andrea at linguistlist.org]
>Sent: Thursday, 5 May 2005 3:07 AM
>To: Resource-Network-Linguistic-Diversity at unimelb.edu.au
>Subject: Easy-access language software development
>
>Dear List,
>
>As a graduate researcher working at LINGUIST List and on the E-MELD
>(Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Language Data) project, I am
>looking for
>resources on easy-access software. By "easy-access" I mean language
>products for communities that are developed in simple, sustainable,
>open-access formats, with an eye toward:
>
>-ease of modification for training speakers to make new software (to
>avoid
>having to hire a professional programmer)
>
>-either the use of previously-available archival materials, or the
>development of new archival materials concurrently
>
>-NOT requiring special hardware, software, or high-speed internet
>connection to use the materials.
>
>Thanks in advance for your input. I'd like to use the information on
the
>
>E-MELD School of Best Practices website.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Andrea Berez
>
>
>
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>Andrea Berez
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>Wayne State University
>andrea at linguistlist.org
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