Documentation and Archival Training Workshop

Archiving workshop in collaboration with Gauhati University, Assam, India, in order to train local linguists and students from North Eastern Universities, as well as representatives of the Folklore community from Madras about best practices and current methods of documenting languages and cultures.

The topics of the workshop are
-    Long-term archiving issues overview
-    Audio Recording, preservation of legacy recordings
-    Video Recording and Processing
-    Power management in the field
-    Creating Metadata
-    Multimedia Annotation using the ELAN annotation tool
-    Creating Multimedia Lexica using the LEXUS tool
-    Creating Conceptual Spaces using the VICOS tool

Where and when:

Feb 5-9, 2010

Assam, India

Organizers:

Stephen Morey, La Trobe University
Paul Trilsbeek, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Jürgen Schöpf, Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Sponsors:

Volkswagen Stiftung

Contact:

Paul Trilsbeek, Activate JavaScript to see this address.