[ADS-M] An eloquent appeal for assistance for DARE

[Grant Barrett]

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From: Joan H. Hall <jdhall at wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:20 AM
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To: Grant Barrett <grantbarrett at gmail.com>


Allan Metcalf has just published an eloquent appeal for assistance for DARE:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/04/06/requiem-for-a-dictionary-or-life-support/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

It's our hope that we can not only continue adding new entries to DARE
and improving existing ones, but that we can also complete some
ongoing projects:

1) Creating the API for DARE so that developers can make apps
utilizing its wide-ranging materials (imagine an app for doctors,
defining the thousands of regional and folk names for ailments and
diseases; an app for regional foods; one for travelers in each region
of the country; one for bird-watchers, with all of our regional and
folk names for birds; one for writers who want their characters to use
appropriate regional words and phrases; one for makers of word games,
etc.).


2) "Bleeping" the personal or confidential information in our
collection of 1,843 audio recordings made between 1965 and 1970 so
that they can all be posted on the UW-Madison's Digital Collections
Center website. (We are more than halfway through the project, which
is being done by graduate Project Assistants and undergraduate
interns.)

3) Posting short segments of audio recordings from each state in the
"English Dialects" segment of this site:

http://csumc.wisc.edu/AmericanLanguages/index.htm

4) Posting results of our Online Survey of Wisconsin English here:

http://dare.wisc.edu/surveys/OSWE-maps

The audio recordings have been (and are being) used in many studies of
regional pronunciation and analyses of sound change over the last half
century. If you are interested in using any of them before they are
all freely available, please let me know and I can give you access.

Joan