2024
Developing Graduate Curriculum for Digital Language Archive Management
An overview of the content and modules for information professionals in language collection managment.
2023
Considering WEMI and the Digital Artifacts Around Language Documentation Transcripts
How should we describe transcripts within the OLAC framework?
Bridging Corpora: Creating Learner Pathways Across Texts
The Bridge, a linked data application supporting curriculum development is presented. It was developed with Latin in mind, but has been extended to Greek as well. It quickly helps instructors and students find new vocabulary words in newly assigned texts, based on texts they have already encountered in their curriculum.
LexR: a Preliminary Readability Metric for Latin
Looking for comprehensibility measures for latin texts.
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: Some Phonetic Evidence for *l
I challenge the status quo reconstruction for Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, given evidence from nine Philippine Languages.
Dublin Core's DCMIType ‘PhysicalObject’ and its use across the Open Language Archives Community
This paper presents an analysis of research involving the use and validity of the DCMIType value ‘PhysicalObject’ in the OLAC network of data providers.
Towards Making Shared Metadata Interoperable across the Open Language Archives Community
Two ways to reference the source metadata schema used by OLAC providers.
Diversity and Identity: Categories for OAI data-providers in the Open Language Archives Network
This paper proposal presents an analysis of research involving a network of Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) data-providers who engage in ethnolinguistic information-resource stewardship.
Regulating the US Consumer Data Market: Comparing the Material Scope of US Consumer Data Privacy Laws and the GDPR
Privacy laws in the USA, are they different from GDPR?
Arrangement and Relationships Between Audio and Transcripts
Cataloging audio and its transcripts in a WEMI model within a Dublin Core framework.
Collection Use and Copyright Considerations
Copyright issues for collectors and stewards of collections.
On the Boundaries of Reported Speech in Western Subanon
We analysed several texts of Western Subanon and presented their results.
A Step Beyond Copyright: Considering Thailand’s Privacy Law as it Applies to Scholarly Video Resources
Archvies are increasingly aware of the need to record copyright, but do archives also track privacy right releases?
A Comparison of Thai and United States’ Copyright Laws as they Apply to Scholarly Video Resources
Archvies are increasingly aware of the need to record copyright, but does also recording the jurisdiction matter?
Enriching Library and Archival Records with Ethnolinguistics Minority Language Identification
A short discussion of the kinds of problems I am looking to solve in though my PhD program.
2022
Comparing Relative Typing Difficulties Across Languages Using Corpora
A presentation of a methodology for using parallel corpora to compare typing experiences.
Language, Script, Orthography, and Text-input: Rating Text-input Difficulty Across Languages
A presentation of a looking at various factors for establishing a meaningful cross-language evaluation of text input tools.
A Vision for New Participation in OLAC: Beyond an Agenda for Open Language Archiving
The OLAC community has several componnets which make it successful. This talk looks at several critical areas which make that succes more valuable.
The Role of the Language Community in Peer-Review process for Collections
When and where does community review and peer-review create mutal benefit?
Peer-Review and Complex Language Resources
How should peer-review be different for different kinds of resources? What constitutes a complex language resource?
Metadata for Language Learning Resources: Advancing OLAC for Language Development
The mash-up of LRMI and OLAC metadata for the benefit of language revitilization.
2021
Audio Artifacts in Language Archives: From Cataloguing to Referencing and Citation
A review of the arrangement of audio artifacts in three different collections, each at a different language archive.
XLingPaper’s use of TeX Technologies
A Presentation of the TeX technoliges supporting PDF export in XLingPaper
Reported Speech in Western Subanon
We analysed several texts of Western Subanon and presented their results.
Resource Discovery at the Linguistic Lab Level
By participating in OLAC, Linguistic Labs can advertise their services and their products. This can raise the profile of the entire lab.
Introduction to the JOHD special collection “Language Documentation: Assessment and Recognition”
Introduction to the JOHD special collection “Language Documentation: Assessment and Recognition”
Language Archive Records: Interoperability of Referencing Practices and Metadata Models
SIL-UND M.A. Thesis Defense where I discuss some sailent related to the ability to easily re-use archival metadata records to produce references in scholarly publications.
From CV to OLAC
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.
2019
2015
Phonetic Transcription of Tone in the IPA
Is the IPA really a phonetic transcription system when it comes to tone? Or must it force a user to make a phonological evaluation?
