Workshop: Sustaining the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat)

濒危语言目录（ELCat）是世界上最重要的濒危语言资源。它是濒危语言工作的独特的多用途资源，对一系列受众有价值。ELCat的数据显示，目前有3230种语言濒临灭绝，占全球7106种现存语言的43%。不仅要知道一种语言的濒危程度，还要知道它对科学知识的贡献程度以及它的描述程度。自推出以来的两年中，ELCat不仅被学者、社区和与语言濒危作斗争的个人定期使用，而且被寻求有限资源分配指导的资助机构、教育工作者、学生和媒体代表以及普通公众使用，其应用范围从寻求科学知识的人到想要一般信息的人，再到教育学、从语言政策和规划到社区行动，再到寻求语言文献和振兴项目方面的帮助。该研讨会将汇集ELCat的区域主任，讨论项目长期可持续维护的计划。讨论的主题包括人员和技术需求评估;持续策展计划;创建ELCat董事会;以及为网站用户增加功能，包括众包，问题和讨论区以及基于活动的用户体验路径。研讨会的形式有两个组成部分：（1）应邀与会者的发言，概述濒危语言目录项目的成果和成就，ELCat面临的挑战和未来必须解决的问题，可持续目录基础设施的必要条件，为ELCat的长期生存和维护提供的候选战略;（2）工作组会议。每个工作组将由4至5名成员组成，负责处理为《目录》设计可持续未来的具体问题、挑战或需要。工作组的成员将由与会者根据其经验、专门知识和对特定专题的兴趣作出选择。将向工作组提供建议的讨论问题，这些问题的开放性足以允许讨论小组成员可能想补充的其他主题和想法。对这些问题的讨论应导致制定具体目标和关于如何实现这些目标的建议。

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.