Creating Grass-root Digital Language Resources Planning Workshop

创建草根数字语言资源规划工作坊

• 批准号: 1126997
• 负责人: Stacey Oberly
• 金额: $ 0.49万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-15 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1126997&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Grass; root; Digital; Language

Of the 6,000-7,000 languages now spoken globally, it is estimated that 90% will be replaced by dominant languages, and that the majority will be extinct by the end of this century. The loss of language entails the loss of cultural, ecological, and a myriad of other types of knowledge. For the scientific community, it is akin to losing a species. One area in which government agencies, scholars, and community members have placed great effort is developing long term digital language resources grounded in documentation, preservation and maintenance. As a result of this work, progress has been made in terms of best practices and policies for developing long term web-based language resources that have the potential to stifle language loss. In order to apply and expand the knowledge garnered over these last few years in this area for the purpose of documenting and preserving languages, a two-day planning session is proposed that brings together members of geographically diverse language communities in the United States and linguists. The project will answer two questions: (A) In what ways can the academic community and language communities work together to document and archive endangered languages using digital and online resources; (B) How best are language data storage and retrieval, community needs, and scientific inquiry integrated to preserve language loss and advance understanding. The culmination of the planning session will be: (1) identification of community infrastructure needs to support online and digital documentary resources; (2) identification of educational needs in terms of best practice for documentation and archiving; (3) identification of language resource and development of documentation plans for needed resources; (4) development of curriculum and resources (5) development of proposals for further funding for the implementation of documentation, archiving and curriculum for best practices.

据估计，在目前全球使用的6,000-7,000种语言中，90%将被主要语言取代，到本世纪末，大多数语言将灭绝。语言的丧失导致了文化、生态和无数其他类型的知识的丧失。对于科学界来说，这类似于失去一个物种。政府机构、学者和社区成员付出巨大努力的一个领域是开发基于文档、保存和维护的长期数字语言资源。这项工作的结果是，在开发有可能遏制语言损失的长期网上语言资源的最佳做法和政策方面取得了进展。为了应用和扩展过去几年在这一领域获得的知识，以便记录和保存语言，建议举行为期两天的规划会议，让美国不同地理位置的语言社区的成员和语言学家汇聚一堂。该项目将回答两个问题：(A)学术界和语言界如何共同努力，利用数字和在线资源记录和存档濒危语言；(B)如何最好地将语言数据存储和检索、社区需求和科学研究结合起来，以保护语言损失和增进理解。规划会议的最终成果将是：(1)确定支持在线和数字文献资源的社区基础设施需求；(2)确定文件和档案最佳做法方面的教育需求；(3)确定语言资源和为所需资源制定文件计划；(4)开发课程和资源(5)为实施文件、档案和最佳做法课程提出进一步供资的建议。