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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
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The School of Best Practice How Standards can Matter Anthony Aristar, Wayne State University Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
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 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
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 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
Structure of the School • Entrance Hall • Case Studies • Exhibits • Classroom • Reading Room • Work Room • Tool Room • Search Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
Entrance Hall • What is Best Practice? • Why Best Practice? • Navigate this site • Glossary • Credits • Help Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
Navigate this Site • Navigation by case studies • From Notecards to the Web: Biao Min • Shoebox Legacy Data: Mocoví • Filemaker Legacy Data: Potawatomi Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
Exhibit Hall • Biao Min • Mocoví • Potawatomi • Each Language has: • About the language • Phonology • Grammar • Lexicon • Resources • Data Case Study Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
Classroom • Images • Software • Ethics • Archives • Annotation • Conversion • Metadata • Stylesheets • Unicode Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
Reading Room • Annotated Bibliography Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
Workroom • Metadata Creation • Terminology Mapping • Data Analysis • FIELD (Field Input Environment for Linguistic Data) • Language Profile • Language Keyboard • Customized Interface • Managing Data • Lexicon Creation Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
Toolroom • Software • Hardware Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
Comments & Help • Submit comment • View Comments • Help Facility Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
Searching • Search Languages • Feedback Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA
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) Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA