Category: ELAR Tech Blog
On the ELAR Tech Blog we share tips and tricks for language documenters, best practices for archiving and fieldwork, aswell as useful tools for metadata creation etc.
Editing Masterclass by Chouette Films
This week on the ELAR blog, we’d like to share a great resource to help you edit videos for your ELAR collection. The use of video in language documentation has become standard practice. Several of our depositors have written about the advantages of using video for language documentation and the positive reactions of community members […]
6 Tips for getting the most out of ELAR’s new platform
1. First thing’s first: Register with us! If you’re new to ELAR, registering (i.e. creating an account) will allow you to be able to access/download any materials with the O ‘open’ or U ‘user’ access settings. This accounts for the vast majority of the materials found in the archive (click HERE for more information about […]
New Alpha version of lameta released
A few months ago we introduced the new metadata tool lameta on the ELAR blog. Since then the tool has been improved and new features have been added. The lastest release is lameta 0.9.2 Alpha, a preview release. Before upgrading to this version, you should make a backup of your lameta project. We’d love to […]
Fieldwork Session Planner
This week on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee Kristian Roncero introduces a Fieldwork Session Planner, which he developed while working on his PhD. Kristian’s ELAR Collection is titled An audio-visual documentation of Chamalal, a language of Dagestan (Russia). By Kristian Roncero Fieldwork is messy, otherwise “armchair linguists” wouldn’t call us “dirty feet linguists”. However, we should think […]
Working with an ELAR collection for your dissertation
This week on the ELAR blog, SOAS graduate Rebekah Hayes tells us about her experience using an ELAR collection for her MA dissertation. Rebekah completed her MA in Language Documentation and Description at SOAS in 2019, and is now a Research Fellow on the True Echos research project at the British Library. Why did you […]
Remote Linguistic Elicitation Methods
This week on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee Richard T. Griscom gives us some insights on his experiences conducting fieldwork remotely – something he also recently discussed on ELAR depositor Martha Tsutsui Billins’ podcast Fieldnotes. Richard’s ELAR collection ‘Documentation of Isimjeeg Datooga’ can be accessed here. By Richard T. Griscom The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a […]
‘Frog, where are you?’ – looking for a frog in ELAR
This week on the ELAR blog, ELAR’s Senior Archive Assistant and Communications Officer Leonore Lukschy writes about her search for frog story data in ELAR, and the importance of metadata in endangered languages archives. By Leonore Lukschy Endangered languages archives provide large amounts of materials on underdescribed languages around the world. In times when linguistic […]
Introducing lameta
lameta is a new tool for preparing data for archiving. It allows you to enter and edit metadata, link metadata records to resource files, keep track of your data management work, and export data sets for upload to an archive. lameta is available for Windows and Mac and can be downloaded via this link. lameta greatly […]
Harvesting an archival deposit for your linguistics dissertation
By Jonas Lau This week on the ELAR Blog, ELAR depositor Jonas Lau tells us about his experience working with somebody else’s ELAR deposit for his MA dissertation. After finishing his MA in Language Documentation and Description at SOAS, Jonas went on to study a PhD in Linguistics at the Universität zu Köln, receiving an […]
Wireless Mics in language documentation
Today on the ELAR Blog, ELDP Grantee Bill Parker tells us about the usefulness of wireless mics in language documentation. By Bill Parker The use of wireless mics is an industry standard in film and television, however in language documentation we largely rely on wired mics. For most of us, this is likely due to […]