Conference: Digitization of HL Symposium -- NYC, 2/25/05

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The Digitization of Heritage Languages Symposium
Friday, February 25, 2005, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 141, Carman Hall, Lehman College
Speakers: Barbara Buckner Higginbotham, Brooklyn College, CUNY
          Patrick Stevens, Cornell University
          Ed Galloway, University of Pittsburgh
          Peter Flynn, University College, Cork
Registration: $15 (CUNY students $4) - Register by 2/18 at 718-960-6722
                                          to receive lunch

http://www.lehman.edu/lehman/irishamericanstudies/symposium.pdf

9:30-10:00    Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00-11:00   Introduction: Barbara Buckner Higginbotham, Brooklyn College,
                CUNY
11:00-12:00   Icelandic Saga Literature - Patrick Stevens, Cornell University
12:00-1:00    Lunch
1:00-2:00     Chinese Digitization - Ed Galloway, University of Pittsburgh
2:00-3:00     Gaelic Script Digitization - Peter Flynn, University College,
                Cork
3:00-3:30     Closing remarks

Each of the presenters have directed major grant-funded digitization
projects to preserve and increase access to materials in languages other
than English. They have been asked to focus on the following four questions:

1. How was your digitization project related to the curriculum needs at
   your campus?
2. How was the project related to the faculty reserach needs?
3. What difficulties did you experience as a result of working with a language
   other than English?
4. What motivational forces existed beyond the campus to make the
   preservation of the identified language material important?