Webresources (updated June 2010)

Language archives and archiving initiatives:

• AILLA: Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/welcome.html)
• DELAMAN: Digital Endangered Languages And Musics Archive Network (http://www.delaman.org)
• DoBeS Archive: Archive of the → DoBeS programme housed by the → MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (http://www.mpi.nl/dobes/)
• ELAR: Endangered Languages Archive (archive of → HRELP; http://www.hrelp.org/archive/)
• PARADISEC: Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (http://paradisec.org.au/)

see also:

• Language Archives Newsletter (2004-2007): http://www.mpi.nl/LAN

Endangered Languages (general information):

• E-MELD: Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data (http://emeld.org/)
• Endangered languages e-mail list (Coombs, Australian National University; http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/endangered-languages-l.html)
• Ethnologue: → SIL's encyclopedic reference work (http://www.ethnologue.com/)
• FEL: Foundation for Endangered Languages (http://www.ogmios.org/home.htm)
• GBS: Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen (http://www.uni-koeln.de/gbs/)
• Linguist list: e-mail list for linguistics (http://www.linguistlist.org/)

Sponsors and funding programmes for work on endangered languages:

• DoBeS: DOkumentation BEdrohter Sprachen (Documentation of endangered languages; funding programme of the Volkswagenstiftung; http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/index.php?id=172&L=1)
• ELF: Endangered Languages Fund (http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/)
• ELDP: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (documentation programme of → HRELP; http://www.hrelp.org/grants/)
• FEL: Foundation for Endangered Languages (http://www.ogmios.org/home.htm)
• GBS: Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen (http://www.uni-koeln.de/gbs/)
• HRELP: Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (Funding programme for endangered languages; http://www.hrelp.org/)

Software links:

Software supporting transcription, annotation, time-linking:

• CHILDES: CHIld Language Data Exchange System (Tools for studying conversational interactions including those for coding and analyzing transcripts; http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/)
• CLAN: Child Language Analysis (Tools for studying conversational interactions including those for coding and analyzing transcripts; http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/)
• ELAN: Eudico Linguistic Annotator (Tool for time-linking audio or video recordings and annotations; various search and export options; http://www.mpi.nl/tools/elan.html)
• LEXUS: (Lexicon tool; http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/lexus)
• SIL Shoebox (Tool for interlinearizing text and managing lexical data base - now replaced by → SIL Toolbox): http://www.sil.org/computing/shoebox/index.html
• SIL Toolbox (Tool for interlinearizing text and managing lexical data base; Unicode-compatible successor of Shoebox): http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/index.htm

see also:

• Leipzig Glossing Rules: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/pdf/LGR09_02_23.pdf
• Geoffrey Leech, 2004, Adding Linguistic Annotation: http://www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/linguistic-corpora/chapter2.htm (= Chapter 2 in Wynne 2004)

Metadata and corpus management:

• ANNEX: Annotation Exploration tool (http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/annex)
• CLARIN component metadata (http://www.clarin.eu/cmdi)
• ARBIL metadata editor with CMDI support (http://www.clarin.eu/cmdi)
• ARBIL metadata editor for arranging research material and associated metadata (http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/arbil)
• Dublin Core (http://dublincore.org/)
• EMELD: Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data (http://emeld.org/)
• IMDI: → ISLE (International Standard in Language Engineering ) Metadata Initiative (Metadata system and corpus management tool); http://www.mpi.nl/IMDI/, www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/browser
• OLAC: Open Language Archive Community (http://www.language-archives.org)

Fonts, encodings, keyboard assignments:

• Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (for MS Windows): http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx
• SIL fonts: http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font (Recommended Unicode font for phonetic transcriptions: Doulos SIL Unicode)
• Tavultesoft Keyman (Keyboard layout creator for MS Windows): http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
• TITUS Cyberbit Font: http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/unitest2.htm#TITUUT
• UNICODE: UNIversal CODE (World-wide 16-bit character encoding standard; http://www.unicode.org)
• UnicTITUS: → UNICODE keyboard layout for MS Word (http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituutk.asp)
• UniRed: Plain text editor that can handle Unicode and can be used to convert between different character encodings (http://www.esperanto.mv.ru/UniRed/ENG/)

Speech analysis software (freeware):

• EMU: Edinburgh / Macquarie University (Tools for speech analysis; http://emu.sourceforge.net/)
• Praat (Tool for speech analysis; http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/)
• Speech Analyzer (Tool for recording, transcribing and analyzing sound files; http://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools/)
• Wave Surfer (Freeware tool for sound visualization and manipulation; http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/)

Software for capturing video:

• Adobe Premiere (Professional tool for editing digital video recordings): http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/main.html
• VirtualDub (Freeware tool for capturing and editing digital video recordings:) http://www.virtualdub.org/

XML editors:

• Altova XML-Spy: http://www.altova.com/download_spy_enterprise.html ; fully Unicode-compatible; 30-day free trial
• Cooktop 2.5 (Victor Pavlov): http://www.pcwelt.de/downloads/webdesign/html-editoren/112962/cooktop/ ; not yet fully Unicode compatible
• ElfData XML editor (for Apple-Macintosh): http://www.elfdata.com/xmleditor/
• firstobject XML-editor: http://www.firstobject.com/dn_editor.htm ; Unicode compatible
• Stylus Studio XML editor: http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_editor.html ; fully Unicode-compatible; 30-day free trial
• XAmple XML editor (Felix Golubov): http://www.felixgolubov.com/XMLEditor/ ; not yet fully Unicode compatible; expects XSD schemas to be present before opening an XML document
• XML-Fox: http://www.xmlfox.com/download.htm ; Unicode-compatible.
• XMLWriter 2.5: http://xmlwriter.net/download/download.shtml ; no Unicode support yet
• XRay XML editor : http://download.cnet.com/XRay-XML-Editor/3000-7241_4-10166163.html; not Unicode compatible.

Elicitation tools (see also section 4 of Chapter 6):

• Space Games: de León 1991, Levinson 1992
• Pear Story: Chafe ed. 1980, see also http://www.pearstories.org/
• Frog Story: Mayer 1969, Berman and Slobin 1994
• Map Task: http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/maptask/

For these and other elicitation tools see also the Annual reports (http://www.mpi.nl/research/publications/AnnualReports/) of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen.