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Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas

Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas. Sheila Embleton, Dorin Uritescu and Eric S. Wheeler York University Toronto, Canada. Outline. Introduction to RODA Practical Lessons General Lessons. Introduction to RODA. Romanian. Romanian and Romance. Noul Atlas lingvistic român. Crisana.

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Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas

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  1. Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas Sheila Embleton, Dorin Uritescu andEric S. Wheeler York University Toronto, Canada

  2. Outline • Introduction to RODA • Practical Lessons • General Lessons

  3. Introduction to RODA

  4. Romanian

  5. Romanian and Romance

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. Digitizing the data

  9. RODA custom font

  10. Search, count, display, compare

  11. Multidimensional Scaling

  12. Lessons Learned

  13. 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

  14. Practical • Custom data entry • Flat files • Modular application • Flexible development process • Good editing team for quality control

  15. RODA virtual keyboard

  16. Data file

  17. RODA: Romanian Online Dialect Atlas (Crişana) http://www.yorku.ca/vpaweb/romanian/

  18. Contacts • Sheila Embleton embleton@yorku.ca • Dorin Uritescu dorinu@yorku.ca • Eric Wheeler wheeler@ericwheeler.ca Test sites: ericwheeler.ca/test

  19. General • More than maps: • Access to data • More than “isoglosses” • Multiple ways of seeing geographic variation • More than Dialectology • Across disciplines

  20. Interpretive map

  21. Data as editable list

  22. Selection

  23. General • More than maps: • Access to data • More than “isoglosses” • Multiple ways of seeing geographic variation • More than Dialectology • Across disciplines

  24. Hierarchy of dialect patterns

  25. General • More than maps: • Access to data • More than “isoglosses” • Multiple ways of seeing geographic variation • More than Dialectology • Across disciplines

  26. Online Dialect Atlas • Access to data • The power of Information Technology to: • Store • Search • Present • Rapid, repeatable, consistent processing of the data

  27. RODA: Romanian Online Dialect Atlas (Crişana) http://www.yorku.ca/vpaweb/romanian/

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