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Funding Language Documentation

Does the money we spend on ‘Language Documentation’ make a difference? I wonder if it wouldn’t be money better spent for language documentation and benefit to the academy, if organizations funding language documentation research for the academy would rather fund the collection of audio samples and video samples already appearning in grammars. In a way provide the support that modern grammars should have.

An Awesome List for Open Source Software

The need and vision for an Awesome List for Open Source Software related to minority languages.

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 …

Characters: Trying to get the Concepts Straight

Initial release of an infographic for explaining the Unicode model.

Are we upfront with the consumers of our services?

A visual example of a notice about legal applicability.

Language Archiving and Data Ecology

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

Some Thoughts on Environmental Print in Minority Language Contexts

Three notes on my interactions with theories related to Enviormental Print.

InField

Ponderings on linguistics fieldwork training.

The SIL Archive and its Two Sided Markets

I present a new diagram illustrating the players and motivations around language archives and the knowledge market place.

The Data Management Space for Linguists

Linguists and Language Documenters have a large variety of resources they engage with. They need to keep these all in an organized way and be able to work with related items.