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African Cloth

A quick note about African cloth and patterns.

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.

Website License vs. Content License

Is the application of copyright on your website clear? Content can be independet from ‘the website’.

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.