[RNLD List] Invitation to complete a survey on software tools in language documentation

[Kavon Hooshiar]

Aloha,

I am writing to you in your capacity as a member of the Living Languages
community to request your help in distributing the following online survey
as part of my doctoral research project. The survey collects no personally
identifying information, and it takes 10-15 minutes to complete.

*The survey will be open September 13-30th*, and during that time I would
greatly appreciate it if you personally took the survey, if you distributed
it to members of the Living Languages community, and/or if you recommended
people or organizations to whom I might want to send the survey.


*The link to the survey is: bit.ly/softwaretoolssurvey
<http://bit.ly/softwaretoolssurvey>*

My doctoral research focuses on how software design can be a means to
elevate language archives' role in helping various stakeholders achieve
desirable outcomes in language documentation projects.

As part of my research, I am conducting an online survey that focuses on
software use, aimed at understanding what software people currently use for
their workflow and what is desired from these software tools. This survey
extends the work of Thieberger (2016) to software tools used in all stages
of language documentation. By completing this survey, you will be
contributing to a body of feedback that will be presented anonymously in my
dissertation, and will serve as a guide toward developing software that
meets the needs and preferences of various stakeholders.

The survey asks what role(s) the survey participant has in language
documentation, description and conservation, including: language community
member, language teacher, linguist, other researcher, and archivist. I hope
to receive responses from members of each group.

I am a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa,
and I identify as European/Persian/Armenian-American. Furthermore, I am not
a member of indigenous communities conducting language documentation, and I
have spent most of my life as a settler living on the occupied land of
Native Hawaiians and Ohlone Native Americans.

Given my personal identity and affiliations, I would be especially
appreciative of your help in sharing this survey with members of the
following stakeholder groups in language documentation: language community
members, language teachers, and academic researchers in fields other than
linguistics.

Thank you very much for your time and effort!
Kavon Hooshiar


Thieberger, Nicholas. 2016. Summary of the metadata survey. In Tools
Summit. Melbourne, Australia.
https://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2016/06/results-of-the-metadata-survey/
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