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Archives: Features without a business plan

We argue that language archives need to revise their business plans to stay relevant with the academic market and data ecology practices of their data consumers.

Copyright and the Distributed Lexicon

I present on the risks associated with large community projects with regard to the implications of Copyright. I also present some risk mitigating strategies.

SIL Communication Strategy Consulting

Strategy and technology consultation with SIL staff to develop interdepartmental communications strategy.

African Languages: Assessing the text input difficulty

Communication with electronic text based devices is prolific in this era of globalization. In many socio-cultural contexts the ability to input digital text undergirds sustainable social practice of literacy. Simons and Lewis (2010) describe the …

User Experience Consulting on SIL.org

Worked with a team to bring modern features via Drupal 7 to the flagship website of SIL International.

Are we upfront with the consumers of our services?

A visual example of a notice about legal applicability.

The OWL and the Rice Farmer

Terminology and analogies used reveal our prejudices. A response to: “Is ELAN easy enough to use, so that an Indonesian rice farmer can use it?”

Language Archiving and Data Ecology

A look at the archival of lexicons and what scholars think is an “archive”.

Learning Resource Metadata for Linguistic & Language Resources

This project creates DCMI application profile using LRMI, DC, OLAC, and proprietary SIL metadata schemas.

Audio Digitization

SIL Americas Area project to digitize analogue audio mediums.