Conference
Recent advances in
language documentation and archiving
Conference venue and format
The conference will take place in Berlin, Germany at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and on Zoom September 4-6, 2024
The conference will be preceded by a day of online training (September 2nd) and a workshop (September 3rd). Please see the pre-conference events page for more information.
Plenary speakers
Valentina Vapnarsky
CNRS, EPHE & Université Paris Ouest, France
The challenges of giving access to digital archives for Indigenous communities : a collaborative experience with the Wayana in French Guiana
Digitalized and born-digital collections about endangered languages are often hidden behind or inside digital platforms that are cryptic to non-initiated communities, and hence to the source communities directly concerned by the collections. This talk will open discussion on this issue and the dilemma between large powerful platforms and more native ones, based on a particular collaborative experience of creating with a group of Wayana and Apalai people from French Guyana, a digital platform that attempts to meet their demand for access to linguistic, ethnographic, and ethno-musical collections about them, in a linguistically and culturally appropriate way. A platform that would also allow for the requalification, correction and enrichment of old collections, and the addition of new digital material. Yet some intrinsic difficulties appeared along the way.
Takurua Parent
Université de la Polynésie française, Tahiti.
Anareo, an interoperable database for the languages of French Polynesia, The case of the Rapa language
Nearly 10 years ago, the Anareo database began to be designed. It is a digital infrastructure dedicated to the languages of French Polynesia, created to support language documentation while keeping in mind the needs of speaking communities. This presentation gives the opportunity, through the particular example of the language of Rapa, to explore the various functionalities of Anareo which permits the storage and analysis of textual and lexical data.
Conference Schedule
Abstracts
Talks
Posters
Scientific committee
- Pius Akumbu
(CNRS Paris) - Felix Ameka
(Leiden University) - Aleksandre Arkhipov
(Hamburg University) - Linda Barwick
(PARADISEC / University of Sydney, Australia) - Steven Bird
(Charles Darwin University) - Alexis Michaud
(CNRS) - Katherine Bolaños
(PDEL Foundation)
- Ana Paula Brandão
(Federal University of Pará) - Gabriela Caballero
(University of California, San Diego) - Onno Crasborn
(Radboud University, Nijmegen) - Gabriela Perez Baez
(University of Oregon) - Patience Epps
(University of Texas at Austin) - James Essegby
(University of Florida – Gainesville) - Victoria Nyst (Leiden University)
- Jeff Good
(University of Buffalo) - Birgit Hellwig
(University of Cologne) - Gary Holton
(University of Hawai’i Manoa) - Jacques Vernaudon
(University of French Polynesia) - Ana Vilacy Galucio
(Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi) - Roberto Zariquiey
(Pontifical Catholic University of Peru) - Zachary O’Hagan
(University of California, Berkeley)
Contact
For further information, please email the organizers at langdocinfo@gmail.com.