Satellite Workshop for Archival Preparation

该奖项将支持将于2016年1月与美国语言学会（LSA）年度会议一起举行的关于档案准备的卫星研讨会。根据国家科学基金会的政策，研究人员应该向其他研究人员提供在国家科学基金会资助下创建或收集的原始数据和实物收藏。然而，与存档数据有关的元数据往往不足以使来自相关研究的数据（例如声音文件）得以比较；没有统一的编码协议，语料库之间就无法进行共享和比较。受邀的参与者将被要求根据社会经济和教育背景等因素，以及语言选择、立场和立足点，提出具体的编码惯例。为这些因素使用适当的元数据将促进语料库的共享和研究，以确定每个因素如何影响语言使用。美国国家科学基金会先前的一笔拨款支持了一个研讨会，在这个研讨会上，主要学者讨论了数据协议，获得了伦理委员会对人类受试者研究的批准，并确保收集到的关于人类受试者的人口统计、态度和记录情况的信息提供了足够的范围和细节，以便进行有意义的研究比较，从而鼓励数据共享。按照这一模式，本次研讨会将扩展所涵盖的主题，并提供一个培训论坛，以开发符合NSF政策的共享数据协议。该奖项还将支持学生参与培训和讨论。

This award will support a satellite workshop on Archival Preparation to be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in January, 2016. Under NSF Policy, investigators are expected to make available to other researchers the primary data and physical collections created or gathered under NSF grants. However, the metadata associated with archived data are often inadequate to permit data, e.g. sound files, from related studies to be compared; without an agreed-upon coding protocol, there can be no sharing and comparison across speech corpora. Invited participants will be asked to suggest specific coding conventions for such factors as socioeconomic and educational speaker demographics, and for language choice, stance and footing. Using appropriate metadata for these factors will facilitate sharing of corpora and research to determine how each factor impacts on language use. A previous NSF grant enabled a workshop in which leading scholars discussed data protocols, obtaining ethics board approval for human subject research, and ensuring that the information gathered about human subject demographics, attitudes and the situations in which they were recorded provide enough scope and detail to permit meaningful comparison across studies, and thus encourage data sharing. Following that model, this workshop will extend the topics covered, and provide a training forum in which to develop protocols for sharable data that conform to NSF policy. This award will also support the participation of students in the training and discussions.