Documenting and Archiving the Oneida (WI) Language

奥奈达的威斯康辛方言只剩下5个母语使用者。所有这些老人都超过了80岁，只有三个人的身体状况足以协助语言文档。在美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）的支持下，威斯康星州奥奈达印第安人部落的卡罗·a·科尼利厄斯（Carol A. Cornelius）博士将制作奥奈达人会话风格的视频和音频文档，这在以前的研究中没有得到充分的记录。该材料将与先前因存档不足而受到威胁的文件一起存档。将采用一种协作的方式，结合著名的语言专业知识、机构支持、商业和人事管理专业知识、数据库专业知识，以及母语人士和学徒培训。因此，这个项目的目标是双重的：开展实地工作，与最后三位以奥奈达语为母语并能够协助这个项目的人一起记录奥奈达语的对话风格；并研究和构建一个数据库，在该数据库上保存和归档来自当前、以前和任何未来文档工作的信息。这里开展的工作将为不同项目（威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的数字收藏中心、威斯康星大学绿湾分校的第一民族研究项目，以及奥奈达族内部的几个项目）和不同专业知识（数字收藏中心的档案专业知识、有实地考察经验的熟练的奥奈达语母语人士、学术和当地的文献专业知识）之间的伙伴关系和合作提供一种模式。这项工作还提供了促进对Oneida社区成员在语言文档（实地考察、转录和分析）和存档（包括改进保存和访问）方面的培训，以便一个坚实的结构可以为多个用户服务。希望这样的整合可以为其他拥有类似濒危语言的类似规模的社区提供一个模式。特别是，记录的对话对未来的语言复兴工作具有特别的价值，因为这是文化的一个重要方面，但在收集文本时很容易被忽视。

Only five native speakers of the Wisconsin dialect of Oneida remain. All of these elders are over 80 years old, and only three are physically well enough to assist in language documentation. With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Carol A. Cornelius of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin will produce video and audio documentation of Oneida conversational styles, something under-documented in previous studies. The material will be archived along with previous documentation that is threatened because of inadequate archiving. A collaborative approach will be used which combines notable linguistic expertise, institutional support, business and personnel management expertise, database expertise, along with native speaker and apprentice training. The goals of this project are thus twofold: to conduct field work to document conversational Oneida styles with the last three speakers who learned Oneida as their first language and are able to assist in this project; and to research and construct a database on which to preserve and archive the information from current, previous, and any future documentation efforts. The work performed here will provide a model of partnership and collaboration among programs (the University of Wisconsin's Digital Collection Center in Madison, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's First Nations Studies program, and several programs within the Oneida Nation) and among different kinds of expertise (archiving expertise at the Digital Collection Center, skilled native speakers of Oneida experienced with fieldwork, documentation expertise both academic and local). The work also provides for advancing the training of Oneida community members in both language documentation (fieldwork, transcription, and analysis) and archiving (including improved preservation and access) so that a solid structure can serve multiple users. It is hoped that such integration can provide a model for other communities of similar size with similarly endangered languages. In particular, the conversations recorded are of particular value to future language revitalization efforts, since this is an aspect of culture that is crucial and yet easy to ignore when collecting texts.