<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I am a Danish PhD student writing my dissertation at the University of
Bern, Switzerland, in the form of a grammar of Garifuna, an Arawakan
language spoken in most Central American countries. I am posting here
because I have so far been unable to accomplish the linkage of specific parts of recordings to
texts of language description such as a dissertation. I am thinking that someone in the linguistic community might have done this or have some suggestions.<br><br>I intend to follow the best practices in language documentation with all
that this entails in terms of data portability, metadata, archiving
etc. and I would also like to incorporate the underlying data in the
writing of my dissertation, and I figure it will much easier to
start linking examples to media files from the beginning rather than
having to go through the whole dissertation at the end and put those
links in. <br><br>However, to date I know of no program or tool that
will allow me to link directly between a document such as a
dissertation, and directly play a specific time interval in a media
file, that is, I would like to avoid cutting my audio files up into
little pieces but rather just link to the specific time code where the
relevant example is located. I am transcribing in ELAN which does allow
the user to search and go directly to a specific annotation and it is possible to do quite specific searches, but I have yet to figure out how one might access a specific annotation / sound interval
directly by a link inside the dissertation text itself. <br><br>Does anybody know of such a program or perhaps who might have done something similar? <br><br>The reason I would like to do this is the accessibility that this would add to the data - ultimately it should be possible to link both ways, from the descriptive work to the corpus and back, and preferably also with a link to a dictionary. <br>
<br></div>Best wishes,<br><br></div>Steffen Haurholm-Larsen<br></div>Universität Bern<br></div>