The Cyberling 2009 Workshop workshop report is now available online for download thanks to the LSA:
http://www.linguisticsociety.org/files/Cyberling2009Workshop_FinalReport.pdf

We are pleased to announce the release of PHOIBLE Online, a repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data:

http://phoible.org/

Between 11th and 15th of August the Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social will organize another summer school in Minde (Portugal), dedicated to the topic "Coding for Language Communities" (CLC 2014).

The NSF Directorates for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) and for Education and Human Resources (EHR) recently issued the third and final in a series of joint solicitations for Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research.

Back in February of 2012, Sebastian Nordhoff (MPI-EVA) announced on Cyberling the launch of Glottolog/Langdoc, a comprehensive database of bibliographic data about the world’s languages.[1] Unfortunately, given the ephemeral nature of Web resources, links in this announcement, such as "Give me all works about Zulu" now return 404 error messages. However, these broken links are due to the release of the new Glottolog 2.0 and they are sure to be fixed, if they haven’t been already.[2]

Members of the Cyberling community might be interested in the Free Science Blog, for discussion of open access publishing.

The World Atlas of Language Structures project (http://wals.info) is one of the landmarks of digital linguistics. It contains 192 features in 2678 languages. However, the resulting data matrix is very sparse, and instead of the possible 514176 datapoints, there are only about 68000, or 13%.

An interview with Sean Wallis, author of http://corplingstats.wordpress.com/:

What led you to set up the blog?

The blog comes from several sources. My research background is in cognitive science and AI, and in particular machine learning applied to scientific research, and statistics is a key component of that. I have been involved in regular debates about the role of statistical evidence in corpus linguistics over the years, so (for example) you will find some of the same experimental design themes about choice in our 2002 book, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/ice-gb/book.htm. I am not a linguist "by trade" but a methodologist, so I can only work by collaborating with and learning from others.

The National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure has announced a new solicitation, Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs), which among other things is a successor to its 2007-08 INTEROP solicitation. It has three tracks: Conceptualization, Implementation, and Interoperability (the first with a 26 July 2012 deadline, the second and third with a 30 August 2012 deadline).

We are happy to announce Glottolog/Langdoc, a comprehensive knowledge base of 104k languoids and 175k references for the Semantic Web.

In linguistics as well as in the Semantic Web world, it is important to clearly identify the concepts one is talking about. Glottolog/Langdoc takes this insight as a starting point and provides 104k Unique Resource Identifiers (URIs) for languoids and 175k for references to descriptive literature focusing on underdescribed languages.