Workshop: Sustaining the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat)

研讨会：维持濒危语言目录 (ELCat)

• 批准号: 1446383
• 负责人: Lyle Campbell
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1446383&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Sustaining; Catalogue; Endangered; Languages

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.

《濒危语言目录》(ELCat)是世界上最重要的濒危语言资源。它是一种独特的、多用途的濒危语言作品资源，对各种受众都很有价值。ELCat显示，目前有3230种语言濒临灭绝，占世界上7106种现存语言的43%。不仅要知道一种语言的危害性有多严重，而且要知道它对科学知识的贡献有多大，它已经被描述得有多好。ELCat自推出以来的两年里，不仅经常被学者、社区和与语言濒危作斗争的个人使用，而且还被寻求指导有限资源分配的资助机构、教育工作者、学生、媒体代表和普通公众使用，其应用范围从寻求科学知识的人到需要一般信息的人，到教育学，到语言政策和规划社区行动，到寻求语言文献和振兴项目的帮助。这次研讨会将使ELCat的区域主任聚集一堂，讨论项目的长期可持续维护计划。将讨论的议题包括：人员和技术需求的评估；继续管理的计划；ELCat董事会的创建；以及为网站用户增加的功能，包括众包、问题和讨论区以及基于活动的用户体验路径。研讨会的形式包括两个部分：(1)受邀与会者的演讲，介绍濒危语言目录项目的成果和成就，ELCat面临的和必须解决的未来挑战，可持续目录基础设施的期望数据，ELCat长期生存和维护的候选战略；以及(2)工作组会议。每个工作组将由四至五名成员组成，处理在为目录设计可持续未来方面的具体问题、挑战或需要。工作组的成员资格将由与会者根据他们的经验、专业知识和对特定主题的兴趣所作的选择来决定。将向工作组提供建议的讨论问题，这些问题具有足够的开放性，以便能够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。