11.2072, Qs: Data Archival, Fonts/Dialectological Maps

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Subject: 11.2072, Qs: Data Archival, Fonts/Dialectological Maps

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Date:  Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:23:55 +0000
From:  Neal Audenaert <mna7079 at acs.tamu.edu>
Subject:  Data Archival and Retrieval

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Date:  Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:43:28 -0500
From:  "Rand Valentine" <jrvalent at facstaff.wisc.edu>
Subject:  Fonts for Dialectological Maps

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Date:  Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:23:55 +0000
From:  Neal Audenaert <mna7079 at acs.tamu.edu>
Subject:  Data Archival and Retrieval

I am working at to develop a software architecture to
support the archival and analysis of primary and secondary
linguistic data.  This is intended to be a distributed
system that would allow linguists to access multiple data
repositories through a single client machine.  The system is
primarily intended for the support of data gathered from
field research but has many potential applications. I have
been having a hard time finding information in my literature
search and was wondering if anyone knew of other similar
projects that are being conducted or papers written on the
subject?  I am familiar with the University of Pennsylvania
project Linguistic Exploration, but so far that has been the
only one that I have seen of potential interest.

I will summarize for the list.

Thanks

Neal Audenaert
Texas A&M University
neal_audenaert at acm.org


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Date:  Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:43:28 -0500
From:  "Rand Valentine" <jrvalent at facstaff.wisc.edu>
Subject:  Fonts for Dialectological Maps

  Can anyone point me to fonts designed to display dialectological variants
and sub-variants on maps? Such fonts might include different basic shapes
(such as circles, triangles, boxes) for displaying major variants, as well
as systematic modifications to the basic shapes (say 4 circles varying in
the position of a small bar), for displaying the sub-variants of a major
variant. Here's an example of what I mean. In Ojibwe, there are two main
lexical variants for 'man,' one which is anini, inini, and ininii, and one
which is naabe. I would like to have a font that would allow me to display
on a map say a triangle for all of the sites having naabe, but a circle
(with three sub-variant modifications) for anini, inini, and ininii. This
would seem such a very useful resource for dialectologists, I'd be surprised
if such fonts weren't available somewhere. Preferably Mac, but Windows too.
Thank you.

R Valentine

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