J. P. Harrington Database Project: Transcription, Coding, and Indices

J. P. Harrington 数据库项目：转录、编码和索引

• 批准号: 0642463
• 负责人: Martha Macri
• 金额: $ 27.6万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0642463&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: J.; P.; Harrington; Database; Project

The J. P. Harrington Database Project, funded by NSF since 2001, consists principally in transcribing and coding the linguistic and ethnographic notes on American Indian languages collected by J. P. Harrington during the first half of the twentieth century. During the 1980s, Harrington's original handwritten field notes, currently housed in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, were microfilmed, resulting in 504 reels from which the J. P. Harrington Database has been created. The current phase of this project expands the original focus of transcribing the notes, to include the compilation of a biographical study, and several indices essential to accessing Harrington's work. Harrington's data constitute a wealth of information on one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the earth. Although his focus was specifically on language, the information is invaluable not only to linguists, but to a much larger scholarly and scientific community including biologists, geographers, historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists. This project also directly impacts two unique and often underserved groups: the native people of California and the West, and students of these communities. The men and women Harrington interviewed were often among the last remaining speakers of their languages, and most of the California languages he recorded are now either no longer spoken, or have only a few elderly speakers. Harrington's notes have proven to be a treasure of indigenous knowledge that otherwise would be lost.

J. P. Harrington 数据库项目自 2001 年起由 NSF 资助，主要包括抄写和编码 J. P. Harrington 在 20 世纪上半叶收集的美洲印第安语言的语言和民族志注释。 20 世纪 80 年代，哈灵顿的原始手写田野笔记（目前保存在史密森学会国家人类学档案馆）被制作成 504 卷缩微胶片，并由此创建了 J. P. 哈灵顿数据库。该项目的当前阶段扩展了抄写笔记的最初重点，包括汇编传记研究以及访问哈灵顿作品所必需的几个索引。哈林顿的数据构成了地球上语言最多样化的地区之一的丰富信息。尽管他的重点是语言，但这些信息不仅对语言学家，而且对包括生物学家、地理学家、历史学家、人类学家和考古学家在内的更大的学术和科学界来说都是无价的。该项目还直接影响两个独特且经常得不到充分服务的群体：加利福尼亚州和西部地区的原住民以及这些社区的学生。哈灵顿采访的男性和女性往往是仅存的使用他们语言的人，而他录制的大多数加州语言现在要么不再使用，要么只有少数老年人使用。事实证明，哈灵顿的笔记是土著知识的宝藏，否则这些知识就会丢失。