The School of Best Practice

How Standards can Matter

Anthony Aristar, Wayne State University

Diverse Data, diverse formats?

Diverse data is a good thing; diverse formats are not

Recommendations about Best Practice need to be made about formats and practices

They need to be set in conjunction with field linguists

They need to be based upon consensus

How to Reach Consensus

E-MELD Workshops: three held so far (Santa Barbara 2001, Ypsilanti 2002, East Lansing 2003)

Field Linguists and Language Engineers brought together

Recommendations made by working-groups in each area

Recommendations made available to the discipline for comment

Structure of the School

Entrance Hall Case Studies Exhibits Classroom Reading Room Work Room Tool Room Search

Entrance Hall

What is Best Practice? Why Best Practice? Navigate this site Glossary Credits Help

Navigate this Site

Navigation by case studies

From Notecards to the Web: Biao Min Shoebox Legacy Data: Mocoví Filemaker Legacy Data: Potawatomi

Exhibit Hall

Biao Min Mocoví Potawatomi Each Language has:

About the language Phonology Grammar Lexicon Resources Data Case Study

Classroom

Images Software Ethics Archives Annotation Conversion Metadata Stylesheets Unicode

Reading Room

Annotated Bibliography

Workroom

Metadata Creation Terminology Mapping Data Analysis

FIELD (Field Input Environment for Linguistic Data)

Language Profile Language Keyboard Customized Interface Managing Data Lexicon Creation

Toolroom

Software Hardware

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Office Hours

Friday, 9 January 2:00 - 3:00 PM

Saturday, 10 January 2:00 - 3:00 PM

Two field linguists will explain their data: Verónica Grondona (Mocoví) Laura Buszard Welcher (Potawatomi)