ELAN language archiving technology

[Iren Hartmann]

Mark,

if you decide to use ELAN, you might also want to look at this nice little free tool:

http://sweet.artsrn.ualberta.ca/cdcox/cuped/

With CuPED you can create Webpages of your ELAN and media files. It's very easy to use and the presentation format might be useful for your project.

Best,
Iren

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:28:34 -0600
From: mawakuni-swetland2 at unlnotes.unl.edu
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: ELAN language archiving technology

http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/



Aloha all,



Are any of y'all familiar with ELAN,
a language archiving program?



The UNL Center for Digital Research
in the Humanities (CDRH) folks are suggesting I look at it for possible
applications to the Omaha database work in progress.



My CDRH guy give me an initial demo
today..



The program requires an operator to
insert transcription directly linked to audio video files.



It is XML based, so supposedly is UNICODE
compliant.



It looks like the straight text transcription
can have a second line with parts of speech, and a third line that renders
everything in IPA.



I just sent over a short wav file with
Omaha elicitation to see how we can deal with an Omaha orthography.



It is possible to search on text words
(presumably Omaha, too, if that works).



The visual ability with the wav files
does make me think that prosody studies could be done.



Dumping the wav files into Audacity
or other software could give you pitch contours and such, like what Rory
Larson has been playing with recently.



Bottom line, It looks really labor intensive
up front... but might have some uses down the road



Ideas?



Thanks

Mark



Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

and Ethnic Studies (Native American Studies)

University of Nebraska

Lincoln, NE 68588-0368



http://omahalanguage.unl.edu

http://omahaponca.unl.edu

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