31.2454, FYI: Corpus of Hurricane Harvey Narratives

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Subject: 31.2454, FYI: Corpus of Hurricane Harvey Narratives

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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 05:55:50
From: Robert Englebretson [reng at rice.edu]
Subject: Corpus of Hurricane Harvey Narratives

 
The Department of Linguistics at Rice University is pleased to announce the
availability of HONOR (Harvey Oral Narratives on Record), a curated corpus of
100 conversational interviews, in which a total of 112 residents of the
greater Houston area discuss their experiences with Hurricane Harvey. The
corpus consists of 56 hours 17 minutes of audio recordings, associated
transcripts, metadata, and documentation. Funding was provided by a Rice HERE
(Houston Engagement and Recovery Effort) grant from the Office of the Provost,
and Rice Linguistics faculty members Robert Englebretson, Suzanne Kemmer, and
Nancy Niedzielski supervised the project. Interviews were conducted during the
year after Harvey, from January 27 through November 17, 2018, primarily by
Rice undergraduate linguistics students.

The corpus is free for download from Rice's Urban Data Platform at the Kinder
Institute for Urban Research. Audio files are downloadable in two formats,
depending on the needs of the researcher: as uncompressed, 16-bit, 44.1kHz,
.wav; or as highly-compressed MP3 (VBR audio V6). Transcripts use the
Discourse Transcription system outlined in Du Bois et al. (1993), and are
downloadable in plain-text ASCII format.

The following link takes you to the catalog page for the MP3 version, which is
a 2.24-GB zip file that takes about 2.27 GB of disk space once unzipped
(including 4 MB for the transcripts).
https://www.kinderudp.org/#/datasetCatalog/2ywjm75e35ag

Alternatively, the following link takes you to the catalog page for the
original uncompressed wav version, which is a 25-GB zip file that will take up
about 32 GB of disk space once unzipped
https://www.kinderudp.org/#/datasetCatalog/93n5rzy77xw0)

In order to download either version, you will need to register your email
address by signing up for a free account on Rice's Urban Data Platform, and
agree to cite the corpus appropriately.

These landing pages also include a PDF file of narrative summaries for the 100
interviews, so that potential users can get a sense of the corpus before
downloading.
In sum, the HONOR corpus seeks to honor Houstonians’ lived experiences with
Harvey and its aftermath, and to provide a rich source of qualitative
narrative data for scholars from a range of fields and research interests.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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