<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Aloha,</div><div><br></div><div>I am writing
to you in your capacity as a member of the Living Languages community to request your help in distributing the following online survey
as part of my doctoral research project. The survey collects no
personally identifying information, and it takes 10-15 minutes to
complete.</div><div><div><br></div><div><b>The survey will be open September 13-30th</b>,
and during that time I would greatly appreciate it if you personally
took the survey, if you distributed it to members of the Living Languages community, and/or if you recommended people
or organizations to whom I might want to send the survey.</div><div><br></div><div><b>The link to the survey is: <a href="http://bit.ly/softwaretoolssurvey" target="_blank">bit.ly/softwaretoolssurvey</a><br></b></div><div><br></div></div><div>My
doctoral research focuses on how software design can be a means to
elevate language archives' role in helping various stakeholders achieve
desirable outcomes in language documentation projects.</div><div><br></div><div>As
part of my research, I am conducting an online survey that focuses on
software use, aimed at understanding what software people currently use
for their workflow and what is desired from these software tools. This
survey extends the work of Thieberger (2016) to software tools used in
all stages of language documentation. By completing this survey, you
will be contributing to a body of feedback that will be presented
anonymously in my dissertation, and will serve as a guide toward
developing software that meets the needs and preferences of various
stakeholders.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The
survey asks what role(s) the survey participant has in language
documentation, description and conservation, including: language
community member, language teacher, linguist, other researcher, and
archivist. I hope to receive responses from members of each group.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I
am a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and I identify as European/Persian/Armenian-American. Furthermore, I am not a member of indigenous communities
conducting language documentation, and I have spent most of my life as a
settler living on the occupied land of Native Hawaiians and Ohlone
Native Americans.</div><div><br></div><div>Given my personal identity
and affiliations, I would be especially appreciative of your help in
sharing this survey with members of the following stakeholder groups in
language documentation: language community members, language teachers,
and academic researchers in fields other than linguistics.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for your time and effort!</div><div>Kavon Hooshiar<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="1">Thieberger, Nicholas. 2016. Summary of the metadata survey. In Tools Summit. Melbourne, Australia. <a href="https://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2016/06/results-of-the-metadata-survey/" target="_blank">https://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2016/06/results-of-the-metadata-survey/</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>