Creating Grass-root Digital Language Resources Planning Workshop

据估计，在全球使用的6000 - 7000种语言中，90%将被占主导地位的语言所取代，大多数语言将在本世纪末灭绝。语言的丧失意味着文化、生态和无数其他类型知识的丧失。对于科学界来说，这就像失去了一个物种。政府机构、学者和社区成员投入了大量精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。由于这项工作，在开发长期网络语言资源的最佳做法和政策方面取得了进展，这些资源有可能遏制语言流失。为了应用和扩大过去几年在这一领域积累的知识，以记录和保护语言，提议举行为期两天的规划会议，将美国地理位置不同的语言社区成员和语言学家聚集在一起。该项目将回答两个问题：（A）学术界和语言社区如何共同努力，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，以保护语言损失并促进理解。规划会议的高潮将是：（1）确定社区基础设施需求，以支持在线和数字文献资源;（2）确定文献和存档最佳做法方面的教育需求;（3）确定语言资源，并为所需资源制定文献计划;（4）编制课程和资源（5）为进一步资助最佳做法的文件编制、存档和课程编制工作提出建议。

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.