Workshop: Sustaining the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat)

《濒危语言目录》（ELCat）是世界上濒危语言最重要的资源。它是濒危语言工作的一个独特的、多用途的资源，对各种受众都很有价值。ELCat的数据显示，目前有3230种语言濒临灭绝；这代表了世界上7106种现存语言的43%。不仅要知道一种语言的濒危程度有多严重，还要知道它对科学知识的贡献有多大，以及它已经被描述得有多好。自启动以来的两年里，ELCat不仅经常被学者、社区和与语言濒危作斗争的个人使用，而且还经常被寻求有限资源分配指导的资助机构、教育工作者、学生、媒体代表和公众使用，其应用范围从寻求科学知识的人到需要一般信息的人，从教育学、语言政策和规划到社区行动。在语言文档和复兴项目上寻求帮助。该讲习班将汇集ELCat的区域主任，讨论该项目长期可持续维护的计划。讨论的主题包括评估人员和技术需求；继续策展的计划；成立ELCat董事会；增加了网站用户的功能，包括众包、问题讨论区和基于活动的用户体验路径。研讨会由两部分组成：(1)邀请与会者进行演讲，概述《濒危语言目录》项目的成果和成就，《濒危语言目录》面临的挑战和未来必须解决的问题，对可持续目录基础设施的需求，为《濒危语言目录》的长期生存和维护提供候选策略；(2)工作组会议。每个工作组将由四到五名成员组成，在为《目录》设计一个可持续的未来时，解决一个具体的问题、挑战或需求。工作组的成员将由参与者根据他们的经验、专业知识和对特定主题的兴趣来选择。工作组将提供建议的讨论问题，这些问题足够开放，允许讨论小组成员可能想要增加的其他主题和想法。对这些问题的讨论应导致制定具体目标，并就如何实现这些目标提出建议。

The Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) is the most significant resource on the endangered languages of the world. It is a unique, multipurpose resource for endangered language work, valuable to a range of audiences. ELCat has shown that 3230 languages are endangered today; this represents 43% of the world's 7106 living languages. It is imperative to know not only how critically endangered a language is, but also how much it can contribute to scientific knowledge and how well it has already been described. In the two years since its launch, ELCat has been regularly used not only by scholars, communities and individuals struggling with language endangerment, but also by funding agencies seeking guidance in the allocation of limited resources, by educators, students, and media representatives, and by the general public, with applications ranging from those seeking scientific knowledge to those wanting general information, to pedagogy, to language policy and planning to community action, to seeking help with language documentation and revitalization projects. This workshop will bring together the Regional Directors of ELCat to discuss plans for the long-term sustainable maintenance of the project. Topics to be discussed include assessment of personnel and technology needs; plans for continued curation; the creation of an ELCat Board of Directors; and increased functionality for site users including crowdsourcing, a question-and-discussion area, and activity-based user experience paths. The workshop format has two components: (1) Presentations by invited participants, to present overviews of the outcomes and achievements of the Catalogue of Endangered Languages project, challenges ELCat faces and must address for its future, desiderata for infrastructure for a sustainable Catalogue, candidate strategies for providing for ELCat's long-term survival and maintenance; and (2) Working group sessions. Each working group will be composed of four to five members, addressing a specific question, challenge, or need in designing a sustainable future for the Catalogue. Membership in the working groups will be determined by participants' choices based on their experience, expertise, and interest in a specific topic. Working groups will be provided with suggested discussion questions, open-ended enough to allow discussion of other themes and ideas that group members may want to add. Discussion of these questions should lead to formulating specific goals and to recommendations about how to achieve those goals.