data sharing

A linguist’s perspective on Creative Commons’ data sharing whitepaper

Submitted by Cornelius Puschmann on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 15:33

Edit: this post on (legal aspects of) data sharing by Creative Commons' Kaitlin Thaney is also highly recommended.

Conference on Electronic Grammaticography

Submitted by Jeff Good on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 12:56

Dates: 11-Feb-2011 - 12-Feb-2011
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Contact Person: Sebastian Nordhoff
Meeting Email: sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de
General Web Site: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/11-grammaticography2011
Call for Papers: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/11-grammaticography2011/files/ca...
Abstract deadline: 1-Oct-2010

This meeting will bring together field linguists, computer scientists, and publishers with the aim of exploring production and dissemination of grammatical descriptions in electronic/hypertextual format.

Language Description Heritage (LDH) open access digital library

Submitted by Michael Cysouw on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 01:10

it is my pleasure to announce the Language Description Heritage (LDH) open access digital library, available online at

http://ldh.livingsources.org

The LDH is being compiled at the Max Planck Society in Germany, specifically at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig in cooperation with the Max Planck Digital Library in Munich.

Language Description Heritage (LDH) open access digital library

Submitted by Michael Cysouw on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 01:09

Dear colleagues,

it is my pleasure to announce the Language Description Heritage (LDH) open access digital library, available online at

http://ldh.livingsources.org

The LDH is being compiled at the Max Planck Society in Germany, specifically at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig in cooperation with the Max Planck Digital Library in Munich.

NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI**2)

Submitted by D Terence Langendoen on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 13:05

On March 16, the National Science Foundation announced the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI**2) Program Solicitation 10-551 at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10551/nsf10551.pdf. This is an NSF-wide solicitation, led by the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI).

The World Loanword Database goes online: interview with Robert Forkel

Submitted by Cornelius Puschmann on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 04:23

The World Loanword Database (WOLD, http://wold.livingsources.org/), edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor and published by the Max Planck Digital Library (http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/) is a new digital resource for linguists that allows tracing the origin of loan words.

We had the oportunity to interview WOLD web developer Robert Forkel and ask him about the design philosophy and technology behind the platform. Soon (in about 1-2 weeks) we will also post an interview with Martin Haspelmath on the potential of WOLD for data-driven linguistic research.

Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (STCI) solicitation from NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure

Submitted by D Terence Langendoen on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 12:22

On January 26, the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) announced its latest Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (STCI) program solicitation, with target dates for full proposal submission of April 21 and August 5, 2010. The goal of the STCI program "is to support activities that lead to innovative cyberinfrastructure but are not currently funded by other programs or solicitations".

A "data problem"

Submitted by Emily M. Bender on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 18:24

On Jan 8, Fritz Newmeyer gave a very interesting talk at the University of Washington about the lack of evidence for a particular parameter from Principles and Parameters theory.

LSA Data Sharing Resolution

Submitted by Jeff Good on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 08:21

At the recently concluded Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in Baltimore, the following resolution on Data Sharing was passed by those at the Business Meeting. It will soon be sent along to the whole membership of the Society for their vote. The resolution was put forth by the LSA's Technology Advisory Committee.

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Language Description Heritage (LDH) Digital Library

Submitted by Michael Cysouw on Wed, 12/23/2009 - 04:41

At the Max Planck Society in Germany we currently are building up the Language Description Heritage (LDH), a digital library to share extant linguistic description and analysis. We plan to officially announce this initiative around February 2010. Currently, we are busy finishing the practical workflow and the communication with the authors who want to submit their work to this digital library.