Linguistics

Several publications have claimed that all Open Language Archives Community data providers are archives. However is this true?

A software oriented collaboration improving the ease of scholarly publication in linguistics.

Are academic publishing practices actually attributing the right copyright holder?

A quick estimate of how large the growth rate is in the Linguistic Literature.

A short initial research stab at discovering what has been discussed about ethics and informed consent.

What legal framworks need to be considered when working with language data from a given community?

A collaboration with Becky Paterson to organize the various layers of U̠t-Ma’in linguistic data into a shareable resource.

Rethinking language survey by looking at where audiences are headed, rather than where they are from.

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.

Working in services design and web-data handeling, I see a lot of different policies and data handling practices. However should there some special set of practices related to language data? I am exploring this question in a github repository.