From edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu Mon May 21 22:43:46 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 22 May 2001 05:43:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 99996 invoked from network); 22 May 2001 05:43:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 May 2001 05:43:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta5.snfc21.pbi.net) (206.13.28.241) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 May 2001 05:43:45 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([216.103.90.93]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GDQ0010K2K667@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 21 May 2001 22:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 22:43:16 -0700 Subject: Fwd: Fw: Call for contributions to new 1,000 Language Online Archive X-Sender: cherlin@postoffice.pacbell.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" From: Edward Cherlin I believe we have all of the information requested but the Genesis translation and the Swadesh word list (glosses for 100 common words). Whether they accept conlangs is a separate question. >Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:21:21 +0100 >From: James Partridge >Subject: Fw: Call for contributions to new 1,000 Language Online Archive >To: Unicode List > >I thought unicoders might be interested in the following announcement >James Likewise Lojbaners. co'o mi'e ed. >---------------------------------- >James Partridge >St Edmund Hall >Oxford University >---------------------------------- > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Wladimir Fischer" >To: >Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:37 AM >Subject: Fwd: ST-L: Fw: Call for contributions to new 1,000 Language Online >Archive > > >> Forwarded from LINGUIST list (http://www.linguistlist.org) >> ------------------------------------------------- >> >> Announcing the launch of The Rosetta Project 1,000 Language Online > > Archive at http://www.RosettaProject.org >> >> Call for text contribution and review comments. >> >> The Rosetta Project is an attempt to create a broad corpus of language > > descriptions, vernacular texts, analytic materials and audio >files for 1,000 >> languages in a publicly accessible, online archive as well as on various >> extreme term storage media. The intention is to create a meaningful >> survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages as well as a >> unique platform for contemporary comparative linguistic research and >> education. For each language, we are collecting seven >> descriptive/analytic components. >> >> - Detailed descriptions >> - Glossed vernacular texts >> - Orthographies >> - Swadesh 100 word vocabulary lists >> - Inventories of phonemes >> - Morphology and Syntax sketches >> - Translations of Genesis Ch 1-3 >> - Audio files with transcriptions >> >> We are creating this broad language archive through an open >> contribution, open review process, similar to the strategy that created >> the Oxford English Dictionary. Though in this case, we hope the >> Internet speeds the process a little bit. . . ;-) And to help the process >> along, we are initiating collection efforts at Stanford Berkeley, Yale and >> SIL, as well as collaborations with various scholars of comparative and >> historical linguistics. >> >> As this is an open source project (a Linux of Linguistics), we need your >> help. We call on all language specialists, whether linguist, >> anthropologist, translator or interested native speaker, to contribute >> texts or provide review comments in their languages of expertise. To >> enable this collaboration, we have created an elaborate online working >> environment at www.rosettaproject.org, offering access to all the texts in >> our database, as well as providing various tools for text review, >> annotation and discussion. >> >> To clarify, this project is not an attempt to orchestrate massive new >> research on lesser documented languages. Rather, our intention is to >> develop a powerful, well tended platform to collect, preserve and make >> available the many riches of already completed descriptive linguistic >> work- work that is often difficult to access or rotting away in >> underfunded archives or in the file cabinets of our aging colleagues. >> We are starting with the above descriptive frame for each language, but >> hope to expand the list as new datasets or texts appear that need an >> online home. We have created the navigation and search environment. >> It is now yours to fill what that which interests you. >> >> In the end, we hope this worldwide collaboration to create a new global >> "Rosetta Stone" will help draw attention to the tragedy of language >> extinction as well as speed the work to preserve what we have left of this >> critical manifestation of the human intellect. >> >> Please visit us at http://www.rosettaproject.org. We expect you will be > > pleased with what you find and hope you will join us for this very >> ambitious new initiative. >> >> Jim Mason >> Director, The Rosetta Project >> Long Now Foundation >> http://www.longnow.org >> >> -- >> >> Wladimir Fischer >> >> Spengergasse 52/12 >> A-1050 Wien >> >> ++43-1-5968567 (phone) >> ++43-699-11332058 (mob) >> ++49-89-1488-219546 (fax) >> >> wlado@gmx.at > > >> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a8902625 > > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription >> options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: >> http://members.home.net/lists/seelangs/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- co'o mi'e ed. .i e'osai la lojban pluka ko