Category: ELAR News
This is where we share announcements that are relevant to our users and depositors, such as calls for papers, upcoming events, and news about ELDP grant rounds.
ELDP Job Opportunity
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme is looking for a Capacity Development Officer for modern language documentation to join the team at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences of Humanities. The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) is a learned society based in Berlin. Basic research in the humanities, the interdisciplinary treatment of scientific and societal […]
Opening ceremony at BBAW
In July 2021 ELDP and ELAR moved to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. On 8 September 2021 an official opening ceremony will take place to mark the occasion. In the wake of globalisation and urbanisation, minoritised languages will not survive in many parts of the world. Fewer and fewer children are learning the […]
Book about the Archive of Languages and Cultures of Ethnic Groups of Thailand (LangArchive-TH)
In 2019 the Archive of Languages and Cultures of Ethnic Groups of Thailand was launched. The project was supported by the Newton Fund. ELAR and Mahidol University collaborated on the creation of the archive. Now a book about creating and managing a digital archive is available from the project. The book titled The ethnic group […]
ELDP drop-in sessions
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) opened its 2022 grant round in July. For those interested in applying, ELDP is offering several drop-in sessions before the application deadline on 15 October 2021. The application system for ELDP grants opened on the 15th of July 2021, and is accessible through the ELDP website. ELDP provides grants for language […]
Joint call for applications: ELDP & DLCE
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) and the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DLCE) are collaborating to document linguistic diversity. The initiative focuses on contributing data from languages of Latin America and Oceania to the Glottobank project. The DLCE is providing 20 grants at 5,000 Euro […]
ELDP 2022 Grant Round now open
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) is delighted to announce a call for applications for the 2022 grant round. After two years of hiatus due to the global pandemic, ELDP will resume to provide funds for documentation of endangered languages. In response to the global pandemic funding is available for projects exploring remote fieldwork as […]
KUSUNDA wins Grand Jury Award at Tribeca 2021
Congratulations to Felix Gaedtke and Gayatri Parameswaran, whose VR experience KUSUNDA has won the Grand Jury Award at the Tribeca 2021 festival! ELAR is happy to have collaborated with Felix Gaedtke and Gayatri Parameswaran from NowHere Media on the KUSUNDA project. In the documentary VR experience KUSUNDA, the audience meets Hima as she reminds her […]
Arcadia renews ELDP funding for ten years with 21 million Euro
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) has been renewed for ten years with a 21 million Euro grant from Arcadia. With this generous renewal, ELDP together with the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) will continue supporting the documentation and preservation of endangered languages around the globe. This new chapter in ELDP and ELAR’s now almost 20 […]
Workshop at Wikimedia’s Arctic Knot conference
On the 25 June 2021, ELAR, together with ELPD grantee Joshua Wilbur, will host a workshop at Wikimedia’s Arctic Knot conference, titled ‘Unlocking the potential of digital language archives‘. During the workshop, participants will get hands-on experience navigating ELAR, and explore ways of making language archives more accessible and user friendly for communities. Participants will […]
QUEST questionnaire – making archival resources accessible to language communities
This week on the ELAR blog, we want to share a questionnaire with you that was developed by members of the QUEST research project. The goal of the questionnaire is to assess how best to make language materials accessible to speakers of those languages or their descendants. The questionnaire was devised by Ilya Khait and […]