1. Language-Sites: Accessing Language Resources via Geographic Information Systems Dieter van Uytvanck, Alex Dukers, Paul Trilsbeek Jacquelijn Ringersma (Peter Wittenburg) MPI for Psycholinguistics DOBES Endangered Languages Project

2. Little Background Information In the MPI Archive we have data for professionals in Computer Linguistics and Phonetics such as the Dutch Spoken Corpus, the Second Learner Corpus, Gesture corpora, etc. but also data about small languages, anthropological data etc the users of the latter are mainly linguists, ethnologists, musicologists, ethnobiologists etc. and speech community members overview of the “small languages” in the archive 

3. DOBES Languages 40 language teams from the DOBES program documenting about 60 languages and working independently

4. MPI Languages about 100 researchers at the MPI also increasing amount of deposits from external people

5. User Interests researchers have completely different interests compared to HLT non-linguistic influences on language development language contact effects (cognate sets) music systems and relevance of patterns cultural differences in parent-child relation kinship and other relations between persons cultural differences in relation between “language and thought” etc speech community interests revitalize the language find identity and bring it over to their children document cultural knowledge encoded in language + music get acquainted with modern technology etc

6. Standard way of Access in LAT standard way of accessing a large archive is to browse and/or search in a catalogue MPI archive offers the IMDI infrastructure such a canonical catalogue needs to be based on predefined classifications by the researcher and organization principles defined by the archivist some professionals like it since it is neutral and offers atomic access most users find it boring and not-functional certainly for the speech community this presentation is completely meaningless metadata browsing & searching LAT

7. Offering new Views in LAT 1. allow everyone to build his/her own virtual collection, i.e. step away from canonical pre-defined hierarchy 2. allow people to create community portals where metadata queries are used to present the resources in a web-site style 3. allow everyone to access complex objects such as annotated multimedia recordings 4. allow people to start from a semantic conceptual space 5. allow people to start from geographic information LAT

8. Create own virtual Collections recombining and linking metadata descriptions result is a new linked structure of nodes still the same “boring” style LAT

9. Create Community Portals creating “nice” web-sites with categories according to some criteria such as genre take care: our genres are not the same as community genres basis is a dynamic REST-based query on the metadata registry and properly filled in metadata communities like this and it is maintainable for archivist LAT

10. Complex Access to Resources navigate from resource to resource by using content links resources can be annotated media resources, lexicons with multimedia extensions, metadata descriptions etc. nice, but very specific and time consuming (work in progress) LAT

11. Navigation in Conceptual Spaces creating conceptual spaces with semantically meaningful relations allow people to navigate in such spaces and jump to detail information in media, lexicons, photos, etc turns out to be very attractive to researchers and community members (work in progress) LAT

12. Geographic Views for many users GIS view is very attractive like to relate languages and cultures with regions combining with other resources (geographical, historical, political, etc) are creating GoogleEarth overlays (XML -> no dependency of big brother) on the following slides some examples LAT

13. GIS Link to Catalogue Node as appetizer and entry point to the appropriate catalogue node then continuation in IMDI tree automatic generation if coordinates are filled in (from Gunter Senft) LAT

14. GIS Link to Complex Resources LAT as appetizer and entry point to complex resources such as annotated media or lexicons (from Stephen Levinson)

15. GIS as organization Mechanism LAT some researchers have organized their material according to field trips and visited places GIS overlay gives easy links to all steps from there link to the IMDI nodes (from Niklas Burenholt)

16. GIS for anthropological Marks LAT anthropologists like to set marks about mythical places, historical events and sociologically relevant material combination with material from archeology for example zooming in and out to see geographic relations (from G. Boden)

17. GIS as entry points for Communities LAT here an example from the DOBES Beaver team (Canada) use to point to toponyms and their ethymology with direct links to resources, web-sites etc. (from J. Miller)

18. GIS as entry point to LR Archives could be used to find regional archives with interesting language material here the archive at CONICET in Buenos Aires LAT

19. Other known Usages Jamieson: sounds of the world with Apple Hypercard CNRS/Quai Branly: explanation of aspects of languages in the world WALS (Haspelmath): relating language typology features to regions trends to combine geological and time information de Vriend: adding coordinates to lexemes for microvariation studies LAT

20. Pros and Cons make GIS view one view on data amongst others but maintain a proper repository structure GIS is excellent for geographically oriented overviews almost everyone is used to understand maps equipment tuned to allow automatically adding coordinates GIS methods allow easy visual correlations geographic parameters influencing language contact very easy to see that big swamps hampered influences GIS optimal for bringing data from various disciplines together take care that you are not dependent from big brother LAT

21. Thanks for your attention. LAT

22. Language Archiving Technology Shoebox/CHAT Transcriber XML ELAN/LEXUS/SYNPATHY Annotation + Lexicon IMDI Data Organization, Metadata LAMUS Data Uploading and Management Access Management Data Archiving and Copying IMDI / GIS Metadata Browsing & Searching ANNEX/LEXUS/IMEX/ TROVA Complex Access via Web ODIT/ISOcat Ontology management framework preparation integration utilization ADDIT/VICOS/MEL Enrichments/Views LAT LAT to support operations during resource life-time Archive Grid Federation