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I demonstrate how a researcher can use their personal website to advertise their publications and presentations in OLAC. I use open source technologies to take markdown files and convert them into a compliant XML feed. The result is greater exposure of one’s academic experience to those looking for language resources.

I present an overview of the kinds of challenges that authors have when they try to import metadata from archives into Zotero, where they will later use the data to craft references and citations.

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.

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

Is the IPA really a phonetic transcription system when it comes to tone? Or must it force a user to make a phonological evaluation?

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 …

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

They make the case that minority languages can be used in social media.

Successful writing systems today depend on electronic input methods which can be easily used for producing printed or electronic material. This paper explores keyboard design issues involved in designing two keyboards for two different established …

SIL Americas Area project to digitize analogue audio mediums.