The Citation Problem
This post is a open draft! It might be updated at any time… But was last updated on October 22, 2012 at 5:43 pm. In a team framework where there are several members of a research team and the job …...
View ArticleUseful or Not?
An expository on the usefulness of the User Experience on the SIL Bibliography. Continue reading →
View ArticlePermanently accesable? to whom?
This post is a open draft! It might be updated at any time... But was last updated on October 22, 2012 at 9:23 pm. There has recently been some discussion on the about the BBC selling its production...
View ArticleLeave Typology to the Typologists: I am a Linguist
A discussion of User Experience in the Researcher - Archive interaction, with a special consideration SIL's tool RAMP. Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Look of Language Archive Websites
This post is a open draft! It might be updated at any time… But was last updated on March 7, 2013 at 8:21 pm. This the start of a cross-language archive look at the current state of UX design...
View ArticleAudio Dominant Texts and Text Dominant Audio
As linguistics and language documentation interface with digital humanities there has been a lot of effort to time-align texts and audio/video materials. At one level this is rather trivial to do and...
View ArticleReviewing Webonary
This post is a open draft! It might be updated at any time… But was last updated on March 7, 2013 at 8:26 pm. In this review1 I will be looking at the WordPress plugin, Webonary and several associated...
View ArticleRDF Ontologies for the Bible
I have been looking for RDF ontologies for describing Bible portions. Particularly so that I can reference sections of scripture like chapter and verses of the bible (in addition to sections of books...
View ArticleLinking Data and SIL’s goal of Sharing what they know…
I have recently been introduced to Linked Data and to RDF. In my investigation, I have noticed that some have said that Linked Data and RDF is much like a solution without a problem (Defense against...
View ArticleFrom Folksonomies to Taxonomies with Linguistic Metadata
How can we push metadata provided by the public into structured knowledge for providing archive content to users? Continue reading →
View ArticlePresenting Audio and Video on the Web
I have been trying to find out what is the best way to present audio on the web. This led me to look at how to present video too. I do not have any conclusions on the matter. But I … Continue reading →
View ArticleDOIs and URLs same or different?
A document’s DOI (http://www.doi.org/ or on Wikipedia under Digital Object Identifier) is an important part of the citation of a document. Many style sheets allow for just the DOI of a paper as the...
View ArticleDigital Literacy vs. Literacy in a Digital Medium
An exploration at the impact of digital mediums on literacy, with a special look at visual relevance. Continue reading →
View ArticleThe role of relationships in an data centric industry
I once listend to a Creative Commons Salon titled: What Does it Mean to Be Open in a Data-Driven World? and in that discussion there was a great discussion on what it means to have data which flows and...
View ArticleThe Look of Language Development Websites
I have been thinking through some of the presentation issues for presenting SIL International’s work on the web. As part of this I have also been looking at other organizations which are part of the...
View ArticleLinking Minority Language Dictionaries to Open Data
Some thoughts on Linking Minority language Dictionaries to Globally available LinkedData knowledge stores. Continue reading →
View ArticleClient-Side Content Restrictions for Archives and Content Providers
Two times since the launch of the new SIL.org website colleagues of mine have contacted me about the new requirement on SIL.org to log-in before downloading content from the SIL Language and Culture...
View ArticleCombination of Tips
Some days I am more clever than others. Today, I was working on digitizing about 50 older (30 years old) cassettes for a linguist. To organize the data I have need of creating a folder for each tape....
View ArticleAdding white space to PDF after cropping
I have a PDF that I would like to crop to text and then add consistent white space (margin). The PDF was generated by a Bookeye 4 scanner. Which exported the content straight to PDF. So, I am trying to...
View ArticleFrom iPhoto to Lightroom
Moving a 30,000 image iPhoto collection to Lightroom. Continue reading →
View ArticleLexical Database Archiving Questionnaire
It is true, I am asking about Lexical Databases and the archiving habits of linguists. Continue reading →
View ArticleGraph Search
I found this article interesting about graph search. I wonder what it would take to make a game like this for ut-Ma'in (or minority language speakers in general)....
View ArticleTutorials for ExifTool
This looks awesome. I'll have to remember this for those situations where I am looking to embed metadata. http://www.avpreserve.com/exiftool-tutorial-series/ Related Images: [See image gallery at...
View ArticleExcel, XML, and CSV
I never thought the day would come when I would say that I wished that I had a Windows version of MS Excel. I am simply aghast. But never-the-less I have been looking for an XML parsing solution for OS...
View ArticleImages in the Free Culture Movement
I have been really encouraged by the availability of images which have been released under Creative Commons licenses. While there are a lot of icon sets out there, here are some of my "go to" places....
View ArticleQR codes and business cards…
So I am looking to redo my business card. I thought I might put a QR code on it. So I stopped by this site: http://goqr.me/. Lets see how it works out. I am a little concerned with claims made …...
View ArticleResources for Digitizing Audio as part of Archiving
I have been looking into some http://www.indiana.edu/~medpres/documents/iub_media_preservation_survey_FINALwww.pdf http://www.indiana.edu/~medpres/documents/iu_mpi_report_public.pdf...
View ArticleLinked Data and SIL a two way street
Raimond talks about pulling data in from the semantic web. What if SIL were to do the same? http://raimond.me.uk/pubs/List of ethnic record lables
View Article“Biblical terms”
There are phrases in some bible translations which are sometimes referred by American Christians as "biblical terms". I "wonder" should our perspective be to hold these terms as "biblical terms" or...
View ArticleFinding your inner Zachman
The last couple of weeks I have been working on applying the Zachman's framework for enterprise architecture to two projects. I have been struggling through the first row and then skipped around a bit....
View ArticleDigitization Services
Over the last several months I have been looking for and comparing digitization services for audio, film, and for images (slides and more). I have been doing this as part of the ongoing work at the...
View ArticleNavigating Organizational Structure in SIL for the purpose of Archiving
A write up of some organizational challenges in archiving in the Americas Area of SIL International. Continue reading →Zotero Pains... The "pre-print"Chepang BibliographyOLAC Validator Custom...
View ArticleThe Job
Today several people are getting together to have a meeting about my job(s)… So I thought I would post a few diagrams to try and explain my job(s). The core Area of my Job Some of the outside things I...
View ArticleEthnologue: the linguistic straw-man
Some rough thoughts on how the Ethnologue is perceived and used socially. Continue reading →ELDPZotero ResearchSome recent keyboard workHTML Metadata tags and Dublin CoreXML formats for publishing
View ArticleSome current challenges in using GIS Information in the SIL International...
A brief discussion on the GIS data gathering processes of SIL International. Continue reading →ELDPHTML Metadata tags and Dublin CoreChepang BibliographyData sources for OLAC extractionWhat are the...
View ArticlePresenting Research on the Web
I have been Looking at different ways to make SIL’s digital research content more interactive, findable, and usable. Today I found http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/. It is interesting how they...
View ArticleOAI-PMH for WordPress
Umm frankly, I am not sure anything out there right now is going to work to bring OAI-PMH services to WordPressConsider these three resources for more info on OAI: Main Technical Ideas of OAI-PMH...
View ArticleWorld Map Navigation
For one of the web projects I am working in we have been throwing around the idea of having a world map as a navigation element. Each country would then be clickable. This kind of navigation has been...
View ArticleGIAL Web structure
I was looking at the wikipedia article for Language Documentation. The only reference cited was a thesis by Debbie Chang. I happen to know Debbie. So I thought I would take a look at her thesis and see...
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