[RNLD] Linguistics Data Interest Group (LDIG) - Call for members and request for comment on draft Charter Statement

[Lauren Gawne]

Dear RNLD list,

I just wanted to let you know about a new initiative a group of us are
working on to improve how we manage the language materials we work with -
the Linguistics Data Interest Group
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Db1QBvSYYqJ7sW?domain=rd-alliance.org>, under
the Research Data Alliance.

The idea is to bring together the great work that lots of people are doing
in specific places, and allow that to be shared, while developing standards
for data management and training. the general announcement is included
below, but I wanted to make it clear that the group is for anyone who works
with linguistic data, and we especially welcome both feedback and
participation from early career researchers and people who work with
language in community contexts.

If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch!

Lauren



*Linguistics Data Interest Group (LDIG) - Call for members and request for
comment on draft Charter Statement*

Data are fundamental to the field of linguistics. Yet, while linguists have
always relied on language data, we have not always had the means or
incentive to facilitated access to those data. This disconnect between
linguistics publications and their supporting data results in much
linguistic research being unreproducible, either in principle or in
practice. Without reproducibility, linguistic claims cannot be readily
validated or tested, rendering their scientific value moot.

The Linguistics Data Interest Group
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Db1QBvSYYqJ7sW?domain=rd-alliance.org> (LDIG)
has been established through the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and aims to
develop the discipline-wide adoption of common standards for data citation
and attribution. In our parlance citation refers to the practice of
identifying the source of linguistic data, and attribution refers to
mechanisms for assessing the intellectual and academic value of data
citations. The LDIG aims to encourage an international discussion of these
topics, bolstering discussions that are already happening in specific
sub-disciplines of linguistics in different countries.

The LDIG is for people who work with linguistic and language data. This
work includes, but is not limited to, the collection, management and
analysis of linguistic data. We encourage participation from academic and
speaker communities.

The LDIG objective is to provide tangible guidelines, software and other
tools for improving the culture of data citation and attribution within
linguistics. More information on the aims and structure of the LDIG is
given in the Charter Statement.

A draft of the Charter Statement
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/87WEBvSGGxW1ha?domain=rd-alliance.org>
 is available on the RDA website. Comments are being sought until the 8th
of May. All comments from the community and the RDA Technical Advisory
Board will be integrated into the final Charter Statement. To comment you
need to sign up as a member of the RDA. To do so is free, and does not
obligate you to participate in the LDIG, however we welcome as members
anyone who is interested in shaping the future of how data is managed in
our field.
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