Software Development for the LINGUIST Network

这笔赠款将用于为语言学家网络开发软件，这是一个由东密歇根大学和德克萨斯农工大学为学术语言学家创建的电子讨论论坛。在其5年的运营中，语言学家已经成为与语言学相关的信息的中心国际交换中心。它的最新一期和10,000期过刊代表了关于语言、语言方法论和该学科的社会学的丰富数据来源。然而，Languist需要更多的软件来支持其不断扩大的服务列表，并适应过去5年发生的互联网技术的戏剧性变化。这类软件将使语言学家能够开发其新的万维网网站，以提供不常见的功能，并实现其最终目标：为该学科提供一个中心位置，用于储存和检索网上迅速增长的语言信息。

This grant will be used in developing software for The LINGUIST Network, an electronic discussion forum for academic linguists produced at Eastern Michigan University and Texas A&M University. In its 5 years of operation, LINGUIST has become the central international clearinghouse for information relevant to linguistics. Its current issues and 10,000 back issues represent a rich source of data about languages, linguistic methodology, and the sociology of the discipline. However, LINGUIST has come to need additional software to support its expanding list of services and to accommodate the dramatic changes in Internet technologies that have occurred during the last 5 years. Such software will enable LINGUIST to develop its new World Wide Web site in such a way as to provide functionalities not commonly available and to accomplish its ultimate goal: offering the discipline a central location for storage and retrieval of the rapidly expanding amount of linguistic information on the Web.