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BCS Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences |
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Initial Amendment Date: | July 3, 2001 |
Latest Amendment Date: | May 4, 2005 |
Award Number: | 0094934 |
Award Instrument: | Continuing Grant |
Program Manager: |
Joan Maling
BCS Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences |
Start Date: | July 1, 2001 |
End Date: | April 30, 2007 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: | $2,142,913.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $2,142,913.00 |
Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2002 = $528,258.00 FY 2003 = $507,725.00 FY 2004 = $348,985.00 FY 2005 = $91,814.00 |
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Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
5700 CASS AVE STE 4900 DETROIT MI US 48202-3692 (313)577-2424 |
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5700 CASS AVE STE 4900 DETROIT MI US 48202-3692 |
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NSF Program(s): | Linguistics |
Primary Program Source: |
app-0102 app-0103 app-0104 app-0105 |
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Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.075 |
ABSTRACT
Language data is central to the research of a large social sciences community - not only linguists, but also anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and sociologists interested in the culture of indigenous peoples. Members of this research community are currently faced with two urgent situations: the number of languages in the world is rapidly diminishing while the number of initiatives to create digital archives of language data is rapidly multiplying. The latter might seem to be an unalloyed good in the face of the former, but there are two ways things may go wrong without adequate collaboration among archivists, linguists, and language engineers. First, a common standard for the digitization of linguistic data may never be agreed upon. And the resulting variation in archiving practices and language representation would seriously inhibit data access, searching, and cross-linguistic comparison. Second, standards may be implemented without guidance from the people who best know the range of structural possibilities in human language-descriptive linguists who have done fieldwork on poorly described languages.
If digital archives of language data and documentation are to offer the widest possible access and to provide information in a maximally useful form, consensus must be reached about certain aspects of archive infrastructure. As the largest linguistic organization in the world and the central electronic publication of the discipline, The LINGUIST List
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