20.1089, Supporting: the Discipline's Digital Infrastructure

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LINGUIST List: Vol-20-1089. Wed Mar 25 2009. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 20.1089, Supporting: the Discipline's Digital Infrastructure

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1)
Date: 25-Mar-2009
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: High Degree of Cooperation, Efficiency, and Professionalism at LINGUIST
2)
Date: 25-Mar-2009
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Creating a Digital Library of Scholarly Hypotheses About Language Relationships and Subgroupings

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:40:47
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: High Degree of Cooperation, Efficiency, and Professionalism at LINGUIST

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Dear Subscribers,

When I first began at LINGUIST in June of 2006, I didn't 
have much of an idea what the organization was really about. 
Like many people, I knew about the listserv that provides 
the discipline with information about academic and commercial 
jobs, conferences, books, and all of the rest, but I didn't 
know about any of the research projects the organization was 
involved in.

Over the years, my involvement on the various projects here 
has slowly helped me understand all of LINGUIST's seemingly 
varied endeavors as a unified whole.  Understanding that the 
EMELD project (http://emeld.org/index.cfm) project gave birth 
to MultiTree (http://multitree.linguistlist.org/) or that 
GOLD (General Ontology for Linguistic Description) is an 
integral part of our newest project, LEGO (Lexicon Enhancement 
via the Gold Ontology) is something that can easily be overlooked. 

In the hustle and bustle of accomplishing our goals and meeting 
both internal and external deadlines, it is easy for people on 
different teams (each GA is involved in at least 3 and sometimes 
as many as 6) to miss the "big picture" of what it is exactly 
that we do here. Furthermore, being involved in these projects 
and coordinating team efforts (as all of us learn to do) is 
possible because of the high degree of cooperation, efficiency, 
and professionalism that LINGUIST List graduate students learn 
to employ.  Although you will hear about all of the projects 
individually throughout the course of Fund Drive, it is important 
to note that each has been undertaken with the purpose of 
creating and supporting the discipline's digital infrastructure, 
trying to anticipate the needs of the linguistics community.  
LINGUIST continues to create and maintain all of these resources 
while trying to support a large number of linguistics students 
through their MAs.  

Now, in my 3rd and final year at LINGUIST, watching the office 
become populated with new faces, it's exciting to think of what 
improvements and ideas will arise from the next generation of 
LL GAs.  But the learning experiences this job provides that 
prepare us for our academic careers while simultaneously 
benefiting the discipline's infrastructure cannot continue 
without the support of our loyal subscribers.  I'd like to 
extend a sincere and warm thank you to all of you who've 
supported me and the rest of The LINGUIST List crew in years 
past and ask that those of you who have not donated this year 
to please take this opportunity to do so now.

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Sincerely,
Bethany Townsend
LINGUIST List Editor 

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:40:50
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Creating a Digital Library of Scholarly Hypotheses About Language Relationships and Subgroupings

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Dear Subscribers,

For the past few years, you have been hearing about the 
MultiTree Project.  The goal of the project is to create 
a digital library that contains all of the existing 
scholarly hypotheses about language relationships and 
subgroupings.  Besides displaying language and bibliographical 
information for each tree, the system will also be linked 
to the LL-Map project, a geolinguistic database which will 
provide users with a fully functional Geographical 
Information System through which linguistic data can be 
viewed in its geographical context.  Not only will MultiTree, 
once finished, constitute the largest database of language 
information in existence, both projects will also be connected 
to the LL database to provide additional information for 
researchers and students.

In the past year, we've made significant improvements to our 
beta interface: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/.  Our 
public search interface has been redesigned to allow 
inexperienced users to view all the language families in a 
particular geographic region. A more advanced search facility 
also exists that allows a knowledgeable user to search by 
name (language, dialect, subgroup, as well as any alternates), 
code, and/or scholar's name.  Once inside the hyperbolic 
viewer, trees are customizable for easy viewing with different 
fonts, backgrounds, sizes, color schemes, and orientations.  
Most importantly, we have developed the ability to view two 
trees in the same hyperbolic viewer window simultaneously, 
thereby allowing a researcher to compare the disparities in 
conflicting hypotheses.  Furthermore, the search algorithm 
within the viewer autocompletes and brings the search item 
to the foreground in each tree, making them more easily 
navigable.

Beyond these improvements to the interface, graduate students 
working on the project have, of course, been busily inputting 
hypotheses including the entire list of subgroupings proposed 
in WALS, The World Atlas of Language Structures.  We have also 
been slowly gathering information about what are the most 
current, widely-accepted hypotheses for each language family, 
so that we can display them in our system.  Deciphering the 
notation system that each scholar employs in creating his or 
her trees in order to digitize them is an incredibly time 
consuming task, but one that we think will greatly benefit the 
discipline in the long run. 

Unfortunately, the project has run out of funding, while there 
are still so many hypotheses remaining to be input and so many 
useful additions needed to our interface, such as a commenting 
facility.  Without your donations, we may not be able to continue 
inputting these hypotheses indefinitely.  Please take a moment 
to donate so that this and the many other projects supporting 
the discipline's digital infrastructure may continue beyond their 
periods of funding.

Support the Grad students by donating now!

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Sincerely,
Bethany Townsend
Team Leader, MultiTree Project 

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