<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Announcement: Linguistics in the Pub Tuesday 25th September 2012<br><br>Note new-ish location: Naughton's Parkville hotel<br><br>Topic: Crowd-sourcing in Language Documentation, discussion led by Bruce Birch, ANU/Iwaidja Inyman.<br>
<br>This LIP will include a demonstration of some of the software developed by the Minjilang Endangered Languages Publication project (publishing as <a href="http://www.iwaidja.org/" target="_blank">Iwaidja Inyman</a>) for the collection and publication of data in Iwaidja, a highly endangered language of Northwestern Arnhem Land.<br>
<br>The discussion will look at the opportunities for language documentation presented by smartphone apps which allow people to record, annotate and upload language data as well as metadata in the form of audio, video, images or text. The process allows users of the apps to take advantage of the spontaneous opportunities for data collection which frequently arise, but which are often missed in the context of traditional fieldwork tools and methods. Crowd-sourcing facilitates the involvement of large numbers of native speakers of all ages in the documentation process without the need for high levels of literacy and computer literacy.<br>
<br>The iOS version of the Ma! Iwaidja app is now available for download from iTunes (android to follow):<br><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ma-iwaidja/id557824618?mt=8" target="_blank">http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ma-iwaidja/id557824618?mt=8</a><br>
<br>Date: Tuesday 25th September<br>Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm<br>Venue: Function room, Naughton’s Parkville Hotel<br> 43 Royal Parade, Parkville (opposite Melbourne Uni but on the West side)<br>Telephone (03) 9347 2255<br>
<br>Food and drink available at the venue<br><br>Contact Ruth Singer if you have any questions <a href="mailto:rsinger@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au</a><br><br>LIP is an occasional gathering of language activists and linguists in<br>
Melbourne. All are welcome. Those in other parts of Australia and the<br>world who can't make it to the Melbourne LIPs are encouraged to<br>organise a local gathering to discuss this topic and support language<br>activities in your area.<br>
<br>--<br>Ruth Singer<br>ARC Research Fellow<br>Linguistics Program<br>School of Languages and Linguistics<br>Faculty of Arts<br>University of Melbourne 3010<br>Tel. <a href="tel:%2B61%203%2090353774" value="+61390353774" target="_blank">+61 3 90353774</a><br>
<a href="http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/singer/" target="_blank">http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/singer/</a><br>
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