[RNLD] What's missing?

[Claire Bowern]

endangeredlanguages.com is world-wide but also covers all of Australia.
Claire

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Adriano Truscott
<adrianotruscott at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Piers and all,
>
> I'd put Nick T's Handbook of WA languages on there, too.
>
> From a different academic angle, I'd love something interactive for schools
> (primary esp) that I could build in to our learning across the curriculum
> and that encourages critical thinking etc - see studyladder.com.au for a
> free online resource for general school subjects for an (but not the best)
> example.   Of course, it would have to be totally local and there are all
> the matters that need to be considered with respect to control/access etc,
> but if I had a wish, it'd be that.
>
> Please make it true :)
>
> Adriano
>
> ________________________________
> From: aidan.wilson at unimelb.edu.au
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:29:13 +1000
> To: r-n-l-d at unimelb.edu.au
>
> Subject: Re: [RNLD] What's missing?
>
> Regarding ibooks author, I remember reading that the ELUA is quite strict,
> to the point where ebooks produced cannot be distributed outside of iTunes.
> I can't remember all the details but I would look into it before using it to
> write stuff. I think exporting the content (which you always control) isn't
> made terribly simple either.
>
> I've been looking into scrivener lately, and it looks promising.
> --
> Aidan Wilson
> School of Languages and Linguistics
> The University of Melbourne
>
> +61428 458 969
> aidan.wilson at unimelb.edu.au
> @aidanbwilson
>
> Doug Marmion <doug.marmion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jasmin,
>
> Have you looked at iBooks Author? I'm not sure it's possible to repurpose
> iBooks for print, but the application is free so worth trying out.
>
> http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
>
> Apparently the file format is based on epub3 but with a few proprietary
> extensions--there's some debate over whether this is good or bad (Amazon's
> Kindle file format is also proprietary).
>
>
> regards,
> doug
>
>
> On 19/09/2012, at 5:44 PM, Jasmin Morley <jasmin.morley at adelaide.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> If I had a web-based wish it would be an online publishing site. People I
>> work with want to make ebooks (readers, song books, etc...) that they can
>> sell on itunes. Wouldn't it be great if there was somewhere they could set
>> up a private or group account, and upload texts, images and other media
>  to
> create a book (the way some websites let you make your own photo books).
> Then they could either publish it as an ebook or order print copies from a
> cheap printer or publisher.
>> Jasmin
>> From: Daryn McKenny [daryn at acra.org.au]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2012 1:34 PM
>> To: Piers Kelly; r-n-l-d
>> Subject: Re: [RNLD] What's missing?
>>
>> Also www.ourlanguages.net.au
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Daryn
>>
>> From: Piers Kelly <piers.kelly at gmail.com>
>> To: RNLD <r-n-l-d at unimelb.edu.au>
>> Subject: [RNLD] What's missing?
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Apologies for cross-posting.
>>
>>
>> Below is a quick-and-dirty audit of existing web resources for Australian
>> languages.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Please tell me! Is there a general or
> particular demand out there for a web-based resource that is not already
> being met by these sites?
>>
>> If Tinkerbell granted you one web-based wish what would it be?  Eg, Do we
>> need a broad public discussion forum for languages? More email lists?
>> Something else?
>>
>>
>>
>> Site
>>
>> Service
>>
>> Main audience
>>
>> RNLD
>>
>> Archived email list for issues in language endangerment and technical
>> questions about language documentation; links, news etc
>>
>> Linguists, language activists
>>
>> AIATSIS
>>
>> Austlang, Aseda, Ozbib, Language and People Thesaurus, etc.
>>
>> Speakers, linguists
>>
>> Language centre websites (various)
>>
>> Information about Australian languages at a regional level. Some have
>> online dictionaries and other resources.
>>
>> Speakers,
> public
>>
>> Facebook
>>
>> Language-specific social networking groups
>>
>> Speakers
>>
>> David Nathan’s site
>>
>> Links to web resources for Australian languages including newspaper
>> articles
>>
>> Public, linguists, speakers
>>
>> Wikipedia
>>
>> Numerous detailed entries on Australian languages
>>
>> Public, linguists, speakers
>>
>> (NB. Obviously linguists and speakers can be one and the same, and
>> everyone is a member of the public!)
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Piers
>>
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