International Summer School on

Language Documentation: Methods and Technology

within the programme

Documentation of Endangered Languages (DoBeS)

of the Volkswagen Foundation

University of Frankfurt / Main

1st - 11th of September, 2004


Time schedule: 

 

 

 

 

Date

Lecture (9:15-10:45)

Fieldwork tutorial (11:15-12:45)

Lecture tutorial (14:15-15:45)

Seminar (16:15-17:45)

Sep. 1

Documentation: What for?

Nikolaus Himmelmann

Room: H

[Same groups of 4-6 every day; rooms]

Tutors: Sebastian Drude, Arienne Dwyer, Marcel Erdal, Sonja Fritz, Jost Gippert, Dagmar Jung, David Rood, Frank Seifart, Rainer Voßen

1. Communicating about your work on endangered languages (Peter Austin) Room: A

2. Documentation theory (Nikolaus Himmelmann, Frank Seifart) Room: F

3. Language endangerment (Sebastian Drude) Room: M

1. Phonetic essentials1 (Reinhold Greisbach) Room: C

2. Speech analysis with Praat1 (Paul Trilsbeek) Room: L

3. Technologies / tools for documentation (overview)1 (Peter Wittenburg) Room: H

Sep. 2

Cooperative fieldwork with speech communities and speakers: ethics and practicalities

Arienne Dwyer

Room: H

 

[same groups of 4-6 every day; rooms]

Field situations by region (Africa: Room: D, Asia: Room: A, Pacific: Room: J, Americas: Room: F) (Various DoBeS members)

1. Phonetic essentials2 (Reinhold Greisbach) Room: C

2. Speech analysis with Praat (Paul Trilsbeek) Room: L

3. Technologies / tools for documentation (overview)2 (Peter Wittenburg) Room: H

Sep. 3

Handling your data

Peter Austin

Room: H

[same groups of 4-6 every day; rooms]

Ethical issues concerning authorship, copyrights, etc. (4 groups by region: Africa: Room: D, Asia: Room: A, Pacific: Room: J, Americas: Room: F) (Various DoBeS members)

Round-table discussion: "Documentation and the Media" Room: Q

 

(Sep. 4-5

Conference "A World of Many Voices. Interfaces in Language Documentation: Linguistics, Anthropology, Speech Communities, and Technology") Rooms: R, P

   

Sep. 6

The ethnography of language

Jane Hill

Room: H

[same groups of 4-6 every day; rooms]

A. Annotation tools: ELAN  (Han Sloetjes) Room: K

B. Practicing video recording (Jochen Cholin) Room: L

C. Annotation tools: Shoebox (Irina Nevskaya) Room: G

D. Editing and digitizing videos [in German] (Romuald Skiba) Room: S

1. New trends in the study of oral traditions1 (Martin Gaenszle)  Room: F

2. Gestures in language documentations1 (Mandana Seyfeddinipur)  Room: E

3. Audio/video recording and editing: Conceptual preparation1 (Thomas Völker / Bernd Terstegge)  Room: M

Sep. 7

Lexical knowledge

John Haviland

Room: H

[same groups of 4-6 every day; rooms]

A. Metadata tools: IMDI editor and browser (Peter Wittenburg) Room: K

B. Annotation tools: Shoebox (Irina Nevskaya) Room: L

C. Practicing video recording (Jochen Cholin) Room: G

 D. Annotation tools: ELAN [in German] (Romuald Skiba) Room: S

1. New trends in the study of oral traditions2 (Martin Gaenszle) Room: F

2. Gestures in language documentations2 (Mandana Seyfeddinipur) Room: E

3. Audio/video recording and editing: Conceputal preparation2 (Thomas Völker / Bernd Terstegge) Room: M

Sep. 8

Ethnographic commentary

Bruna Franchetto

Room: H

[same groups of 4-6 every day; rooms]

A. Annotation tools: Shoebox (Irina Nevskaya) Room: K

B. Annotation tools: ELAN (Han Sloetjes) Room: L

C. Metadata tools: IMDI editor and browser (Peter Wittenburg) Room: G

D. Metadata tools: IMDI editor and browser [in German] (Romuald Skiba) Room: S

1. Orthography development1 (Frank Seifart)  Room: F

2. Prosody and intonation1 (Martine Grice) Room: C

3. Audio/video recording and editing: Optimal Handling1 (Jochen Cholin) Room: K

Sep. 9

Linguistic commentary

Eva Schulze-Berndt

Room: H

 

[same groups of 4-6 every day; rooms]

A. Editing and digitizing videos (Maarten Bisseling) Room: K

B. Metadata tools: IMDI editor and browser (Peter Wittenburg) Room: L

C. Annotation tools: ELAN (Han Sloetjes) Room: G

D. Annotation tools: Shoebox [in German] (Irina Nevskaya) Room: S

 





1. Orthography development2 (Frank Seifart) Room: F

2. Prosody and intonation2 (Martine Grice) Room: C

3. Audio/video recording and editing: Optimal handling2 (Jochen Cholin) Room: K

Sep. 10

Community language work

Ulrike Mosel

Room: H

[same groups of 4-6 every day; rooms]

Capacity building in indigenous communities: Examples by region (4 groups by region: Africa: Room: D, Asia: Room: A, Pacific: Room: J, Americas: Room: F) (Various DoBeS members)

1. Grammar writing1 (Ulrike Mosel) Room: F

2. Ethnomusicology1 (Gisa Jähnichen) Room: M

3. Development of teaching materials1 (Utta von Gleich) Room: A

Sep. 11

Archiving challenges

Peter Wittenburg / Jost Gippert

Room: H

[same groups of 4-6 every day; rooms]

1. Useful things to know about XML/HTML for website creation (Paul Trilsbeek) Room: K

2. Useful things to know about encoding (Jost Gippert) Room: M

3. Useful things to know about existing web archives (Peter Wittenburg) Room: L

1. Grammar writing2 (Ulrike Mosel) Room: F

2. Ethnomusicology2 (Gisa Jähnichen) Room: M

3. Development of teaching materials2 (Utta von Gleich) Room: A

Date

Lecture (9:15-10:45)

Fieldwork tutorial (11:15-12:45)

Lecture tutorial (14:15-15:45)

Seminar (16:15-17:45)

(N.B. The rooms indicated may be subject to last-minute changes.)

 

  Daily schedule: 

9:15

10:45

11:15

12:45

14:15

15:45

16:15

18:30

Lecture

Break

Fieldwork tutorial

Lunch

Lecture tutorial

Break

Seminar

Dinner

 

Orientation map

 

The summer school will take place in conjunction with the conference

A WORLD OF MANY VOICES

  at the same venue (Frankfurt, Sep. 4-5th, 2004).

For further questions, please contact  Jost Gippert.