Trip Report: Wikifying Resarch

The following notes have been taken by Robert during a visit the the EVA Leipzig.

Workshop Wikifying Research[edit]

Brian Fuchs: "Service sharing: a service composition toolkit for collaborative online research"[edit]

Only got in for the last minutes of the presentation. The one interesting quote i remember: The problem with long projects (> 3 years?) is that once they are finished the technology is already obsolete.

Martin Haspelmath: "Long-distance collaboration in the creation of cross-linguistic databases"[edit]

Martin presented several projects:

Glottopedia
WALS

Laurent Romary: "Linking open spaces and standards: the case of language codes and language description"[edit]

wiki vs. standard? no. standards should be minimal principles about data representation.

omega wiki -> check out

639.4 - no prejudice towards what a language is - standardisation of metadata about languages

"wals should have 639.4 compatible data" - whatever this means.

read wittenburg's paper on "citation of electronic resources".

Sebastian Nordhoff: "Tracing building blocks of typological hypotheses through the grammar authoring system GALOES"[edit]

link analysis back to source data (e.g. sound files).

calces -> check out (potential/interest to link from wals) wiki for langauge data ... (moinmoin, apache, debian) a grammar authoring tool for descriptive linguists.

automatic typological harvesting (extracting info from grammars) deemed impossible. so the next best thing is computer assisted harvesting.

ontologies deemed hard for humans.

once again question of offline work mentioned (field work is important).

-> wals questions/features have numbers/ids? wals b.2 ... -> check -> annodex -> check out

-> check out possibilities for collaboration (e.g. offline functionality maybe using subversion - cause moinmoin data lives in the file system).

-> check out how relation to corpus is established (elan?).

Workshop Towards a Comprehensive Language Catalogue[edit]

June 28, 2007