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SUMMARY:The Digital Museum Project for the Languages and Cultures of Ryuky
 u: The Case of Ikema Ryukyuan - Professor Yukinori Takubo\, Kyoto Universi
 ty
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DTEND:20101004T161500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Ikema is an endangered dialect of Southern Ryukyuan spoken on 
 Miyakojima Island\, Japan. The community is deeply concerned that the youn
 ger generation is not acquiring Ikema and has imaginatively tackled this p
 roblem by\, among things\, creating a vernacular musical titled _Nishihara
  Muradate_ ‘The making of the Nishihara village’. The musical\, depict
 ing the migration to Nishihara from their ancestral island\, was filmed an
 d made into a DVD.\n\nUsing such recordings of Ikema as a springboard\, Pr
 ofessor Takubo will discuss the development of the Digital Museum Project\
 , a web-based three-layered digital storage space for endangered languages
 . The first layer provides open-access exhibit space\; the second provides
  password-protected access for specialist researchers while a third layer 
 contains raw data only accessible to the research group. This talk will co
 nclude with a demonstration of the resource.\n\nThis talk is sponsored by 
 the World Oral Litearture Project. Affiliated to the University of Cambrid
 ge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology\, the World Oral Literature Proj
 ect is a collaborative initiative to document and make accessible endanger
 ed oral literatures before they disappear without record. http://www.orall
 iterature.org/ \n
LOCATION:McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research\, Downing Street
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