BCS: DELAMAN 3: The Third Annual Meeting of the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archive Network

BCS：DELAMAN 3：数字濒危语言和音乐档案网络第三届年会

• 批准号: 0446830
• 负责人: Joel Sherzer
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0446830&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BCS; DELAMAN; Third; Annual; Meeting

Imagine if no one had thought to preserve copies of the Iliad and the Odyssey, or Beowulf, or the Bhaghavad Gita, before the languages they were composed in became extinct. The world would have lost some of its greatest works of literature forever. There are great works of oral literature in the world today that are in danger of being lost, because the languages that they are composed in are dying, as their last speakers grow old and die and their children adopt other languages. Out of some 5,000 languages currently spoken, only half are expected to survive into the next century. Linguists and anthropologists are working with speakers of these endangered languages to record as much as possible of their oral literatures, histories, myths, traditional musics and other forms of knowledge before it is too late. They are producing prodigious amounts of recorded information on a wide range of media. These recordings must all be converted into standard digital formats and preserved in digital archives, where they can be securely maintained for future generations and also be used today by speakers, scholars, and students for a variety of research and educational activities.The Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archive Network is a global organization dedicated to pooling methods and technologies for creating and managing the archives that are tasked with preserving this priceless linguistic heritage. Members of the Network meet annually to coordinate efforts and determine strategies for improving the security and accessibility of endangered language archives around the world. With support from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Joel Sherzer will host the third annual meeting of the Network at the University of Texas at Austin in November, 2005. The Network is currently working on developing improved methods of managing access to sensitive materials, like sacred chants or personal histories, so that the creators of these resources can feel secure about archiving them. The Network is also working on designs and strategies that will make it easier to establish digital endangered language archives and thus add members to the Network. The Network is also working on designs for "archivelets": smaller archive outlets that offer localized sets of resources to specific communities, like a minority language community, with localized interfaces but without the expensive burden of preserving the resources over the long term.

想象一下，如果没有人想过要保存《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》、《贝奥武夫》或《巴格哈瓦德·吉塔》的复制品，在它们所用的语言灭绝之前。世界将永远失去一些最伟大的文学作品。当今世界上有许多伟大的口头文学作品面临消失的危险，因为它们所用的语言正在消亡，因为它们的最后一位使用者随着年龄的增长和死亡以及他们的孩子采用其他语言而死亡。在目前使用的大约5000种语言中，只有一半预计会延续到下个世纪。语言学家和人类学家正在与说这些濒危语言的人合作，尽可能多地记录他们的口头文学、历史、神话、传统音乐和其他形式的知识，以免为时过晚。他们在各种各样的媒体上制作了数量惊人的记录信息。这些录音都必须转换成标准的数字格式并保存在数字档案馆中，在那里它们可以安全地保存给后代，今天也可以由演讲者、学者和学生用于各种研究和教育活动。数字濒危语言和音乐档案网络是一个致力于汇集创建和管理档案的方法和技术的全球组织，其任务是保护这一无价的语言遗产。该网络成员每年举行会议，以协调努力并确定战略，以改善世界各地濒危语言档案的安全性和可获取性。在国家科学基金会的支持下，Joel Sherzer博士将于2005年11月在得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校主持该网络的第三次年会。该网络目前正在努力制定改进的方法来管理对圣歌或个人历史等敏感材料的获取，以便这些资源的创建者可以放心地将其存档。该网络还在制定设计和战略，以便更容易地建立数字濒危语言档案，从而增加该网络的成员。该网络还致力于设计“档案资料集”：较小的档案网点，向特定社区，如少数族裔语言社区，提供本地化的资源集，具有本地化的界面，但没有长期保存资源的昂贵负担。