LD&A'24

Recent advances in language documentation and archiving

Conference and training sessions Berlin & Online, 4-6 September 2024
Many lessons have been learned in the last 20 years of documentation and archiving, and all over the world activists, communities, researchers, and artists have developed documentation projects, apps, art installations, archival collections, films, and multimedia projects telling the many stories and histories of Indigenous languages and their creators and keepers.
This conference brought together people working in this area to present papers, posters, and conduct training sessions aiming to develop capacity, present new approaches to documentation and preservation, and access to primary records. It offered models of how we can create, strengthen, enhance, and amplify language records. The conference aimed to bring new ideas and views together, share knowledge and support the communities who are working to record and revitalise Indigenous languages.

Conference Timeline

April 15, 2024

Paper submission deadline

May 15, 2024

Notification of acceptance

September 2, 3 2024

Trainings

on Zoom

September 3, 2024

Workshop on historical language texts

Berlin, Germany BBAW (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

September 4-6, 2024

Conference dates

on Zoom

and in Berlin, Germany BBAW (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

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.

LD&A 2024 Talks

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The abstracts are available here.

Conference Schedule

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Pre-Conference Trainings and Events

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Scientific Committee

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