Colloquium - Nick Thieberger (U. of Hawai'i) "21st Century Linguistic Fieldwork, Analysis And Data Curation – Current Methods And Future Promise”

New technologies give access to linguistic field-recordings that facilitates analysis and allows new ways of visualizing the data, including providing searchable textual indices of dynamic media and linking translations of texts to lexical databases. Besides helping us to do our own work better, these technologies allow us to fulfill our responsibility to the people we record by developing this unique data into archival versions so they can be safely curated and located in the future. In this talk I will discuss how our work has changed as a result of new technologies, and how much more could be done if there were greater uptake and a concomitant set of accepted standards for creation of linguistic resources.

Nick Thieberger is an Australian Research Council QEII Fellow at the University of Melbourne and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/thieberger/