Download - Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas
![Page 1: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas
Sheila Embleton, Dorin Uritescu and
Eric S. Wheeler
York University Toronto, Canada
![Page 2: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Outline Introduction to RODA
Practical Lessons
General Lessons
![Page 3: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Introduction to RODA
![Page 4: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Romanian
![Page 5: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Romanian and Romance
![Page 6: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Noul Atlas lingvistic român. Crisana Crisana region in
north-west Romania
Hard copy atlas by Stan and Uritescu (1996, 2003, etc)
Digitize to make it more accessible
![Page 7: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Objective Use Information Technology to
permit a broad range of scholars to access the data, select the data appropriately, and present the data clearly;
and so gain greater understanding of its significance.
![Page 8: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Digitizing the data
![Page 9: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
RODA custom font
![Page 10: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
![Page 11: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Search, count, display, compare
![Page 12: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Multidimensional Scaling
![Page 13: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Lessons Learned
![Page 14: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Previous projects Finnish (Kettunen 1940)
Digitized a large, out-of-print atlas English (Computerized Linguistic
Atlas of English -- CLAE) Used someone else’s digital data
![Page 15: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Practical Custom data entry Flat files Modular application Flexible development process Good editing team for quality control
![Page 16: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
RODA virtual keyboard
![Page 17: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Data file
![Page 18: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
RODA: Romanian Online Dialect Atlas (Crişana)
http://www.yorku.ca/vpaweb/romanian/
![Page 19: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Contacts Sheila [email protected] Dorin [email protected] Eric [email protected]
Test sites: ericwheeler.ca/test
![Page 20: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
General More than maps:
Access to data More than “isoglosses”
Multiple ways of seeing geographic variation
More than Dialectology Across disciplines
![Page 21: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Interpretive map
![Page 22: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Data as editable list
![Page 23: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Selection
![Page 24: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
General More than maps:
Access to data More than “isoglosses”
Multiple ways of seeing geographic variation
More than Dialectology Across disciplines
![Page 25: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Hierarchy of dialect patterns
![Page 26: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
General More than maps:
Access to data More than “isoglosses”
Multiple ways of seeing geographic variation
More than Dialectology Across disciplines
![Page 27: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Online Dialect Atlas Access to data
The power of Information Technology to:• Store• Search• Present
Rapid, repeatable, consistent processing of the data
![Page 28: Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022062322/5681488b550346895db5a18a/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
RODA: Romanian Online Dialect Atlas (Crişana)
http://www.yorku.ca/vpaweb/romanian/