32.624, FYI: ELAR Launches New Archiving Platform

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-624. Fri Feb 19 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.624, FYI: ELAR Launches New Archiving Platform

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 03:00:02
From: Leonore Lukschy [ll39 at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: ELAR Launches New Archiving Platform

 
The Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) is excited to announce the launch of
its new archiving platform powered by Preservica on February 21, 2021,
International Mother Language Day - celebrating humanity's cultural and
linguistic diversity. ELAR holds audiovisual collections of endangered
languages recorded with and by communities all over the world, preserving
their knowledge and languages, making them available for future generations.

Over 500 collections can be explored in ELAR, from languages spoken by
communities in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, South Africa and Botswana, over
languages signed in India and Iran, to languages whistled in the Brazilian
Amazon. You can find recordings of every-day conversations, instructions on
how to build fish traps or boats, explanations of kinship systems and the use
of medicinal plants, and learn about art forms like string figures and sand
drawings. ELAR's collections are unique records of local knowledge systems
encoded in their languages, described by the holders of the knowledge
themselves.

The Endangered Languages Archive was created in 2002 in response to the
dramatic decline of linguistic diversity with seed funding by the Arcadia
Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Arcadia serves
humanity by preserving endangered cultural heritage and ecosystems. ELAR was
created together with the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, a
grant-giving organisation which funds language documentation projects and
trains language documenters  globally.

In the week following International Mother Language Day, ELAR will hold a
virtual celebration of the launch of its new archiving platform, showcasing
the diversity of collections via the new ELAR Blog and ELAR's social media
channels. Follow @ELARarchive on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Website: http://elararchive.org
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation





 



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