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Bibliographies are compliations of resources I have found on a specific topic.
Jots are simple comments, thoughts, and observations.
Research Notes are reports on scholarly investigations.
Language Data Notes are discussions and displays of language use.
Professional Notes are an opinion on a particular issue or topic.
Professional Development Notes are tutorial-like notes which explain how to do something.

Writing System Versions

An outline of some of the things to track when making a writing system history database.

Converting FLExText Files to XLingPaper Interlinear Texts

A short note with commandline instructions for converting FLExText for inclusion into XLingPaper.

Roles for Learning Resources

A stab at some roles for learning resources.

Describing Serials in Dublin Core

A short bibliography of works to consult when looking at how to describe serials in Dublin Core.

Tolkien-Studies

Some pointers in academic Tolkien studies.

Presenting Oral Texts with Transcriptions Online

A short list of different methods people have presented on putting time-aligned texts online.

OLAC Extenstion for Zotero Types

This OLAC extenstion adds the ability to add a Zotero item type and validate that files have a valid item type.

Scholarship as Social Work

A musing about the role of scholarship, diplomacy, and social work

Corpora, Collections, and Datasets

There has been some discussion of what constitutes a collection among language documentation practitioners. Johnson (Citation: Johnson, 2004, p. 142) Johnson, H. (2004). Language documentation and archiving, or how to build a better corpus.

PDFs from Webpages

A workflow for creating SVG images from PDFs