[RNLD List] ELAR launches new archiving platform

[Elar Archive]

*ELAR launches new archiving platform*

The Endangered Language Archive <http://elararchive.org> (ELAR) is excited
to announce the launch of its new archiving platform powered by Preservica
<https://preservica.com/> on February 21st 2021, International Mother
Language Day <https://www.un.org/en/observances/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 <https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/>, 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 <http://eldp.net>, 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
<http://elararchive.org/blog> and ELAR's social media channels. Follow
@ELARarchive on Twitter <http://twitter.com/ELARarchive>, Instagram
<http://instagram.com/ELARarchive> and Facebook
<http://facebook.com/ELARarchive>.


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Endangered Languages Archive
SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG, UK

Website: https://elararchive.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elararchive/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elararchive/
Twitter: @ELARarchive <https://www.twitter.com/elararchive/>
Blog: https://elararchive.org/blog
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