"Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources"

[Nicholas Thieberger]

"Toward the Interoperability of Language Resources" is the topic of a 
workshop to be held July 13-15 at Stanford University in conjunction 
with the 2007 LSA Summer Institute. It will capitalize on the 
momentum of two workshops held in conjunction with the 2006 LSA 
Summer Meeting at Michigan State University: the Digital Tools Summit 
in Linguistics (DTSL), and the E-MELD (Electronic Metastructure for 
Endangered Languages Data) workshop on digital language 
documentation, which focused on "Tools and Standards: The State of 
the Art."

A major aim of both E-MELD and DTSL has been to involve an 
interdisciplinary group of researchers in the resolution of pressing 
issues in linguistic data management. E-MELD has primarily stimulated 
the development, evaluation and amelioration of guidelines and 
standards for annotation, computer-assisted lexicography, ontologies, 
and extant tools; DTSL focused on catalyzing the development of the 
next generation of tools for linguistic inquiry. In focusing on 
interoperability, the TILR workshop will exploit the momentum of 
E-MELD and DTSL to involve an even more diverse group of researchers 
in addressing a critical issue in the development of 
cyberinfrastructure for linguistics.

This meeting is intended to encourage tool developers to coordinate 
outputs of existing tools and to plan new tools that are extensible, 
modular, and renewable. If tools developed by one project can be 
readily adapted for other similar projects, this will not only 
conserve development time and effort, but also constitute major 
progress towards the ultimate goal of creating sustainable and 
accessible digital resources.

Deadline for papers is February 15th

http://linguistlist.org/tilr/