archiving

Focus on applications

Submitted by rmalouf on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 18:41

A lot of digital ink has been spilled in recent years laying out standards and best practices for language documentation and archiving, and rightly so. Coherent standards greatly improve the usefulness and longevity of archived data, and getting standards right is a difficult process. And, measures like the recent LSA resolution and the requirements of funding agencies are an important step towards getting researchers to use these standards.

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

Submitted by terry 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".

LSA Data Sharing Resolution

Submitted by jcgood 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 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.

New NSF-OCI Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) solicitation

Submitted by terry on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 13:49

On Thursday, November 19, the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) announced a new Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) solicitation, with a full proposal deadline of February 28, 2010. It expects to make 25 to 30 awards totaling $15,000,000 over three years. The program synopsis reads as follows.