NSF Org:	BCS Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Recipient:	EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date:	March 16, 2007
Latest Amendment Date:	March 16, 2007
Award Number:	0709680
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Joan Maling BCS  Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences SBE  Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Start Date:	April 1, 2007
End Date:	March 31, 2008 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$13,334.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$13,334.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2007 = $13,334.00
History of Investigator:	Helen Aristar-Dry (Principal Investigator) hdry@linguistlist.org Anthony Aristar (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	Eastern Michigan University 203 PIERCE HALL YPSILANTI MI  US  48197-2264 (734)487-3090
Sponsor Congressional District:	06
Primary Place of Performance:	Eastern Michigan University 203 PIERCE HALL YPSILANTI MI  US  48197-2264
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	06
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	STFNT4KCCDU3
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	Linguistics
Primary Program Source:	app-0107
Program Reference Code(s):	0000, OTHR
Program Element Code(s):	131100
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.075

ABSTRACT

This workshop, to be held July 13-15 at Stanford University in conjunction with the 2007 LSA Summer Institute, will bring linguists, language engineers, and archivists together to collaborate in the development of digital tools and services for linguistics. In focusing on interoperability, the workshop will build on the momentum of two previous broad collaborations to assess and develop the state of the art in computer-assisted linguistic analysis (the E-MELD (Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data) and DTSL (Digital Tools Summit in Linguistics) initiatives. Interoperable archives and other digital services are essential to realizing the vision of sustainable, accessible digital language resources. To ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of digital language resources, a coordinated infrastructure is required. This workshop will encourage developers to coordinate outputs of existing tools and to plan new tools that are extensible, modular, and renewable. The workshop will facilitate the growing cooperation between language engineers, field linguists, and native communities and foster the development of tools to aid in language analysis, revitalization, and documentation. In so doing, we address a critical bottleneck in the development of cyberinfrastructure for linguistics.

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