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SUMMARY:Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endange
 red Oral Cultures - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20120629T180000Z
DTEND:20120629T160000Z
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CONTACT:Claire Wheeler
DESCRIPTION:Please register here for this event: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.
 uk/events/1685/\n\nA two-day collaborative workshop bringing together scho
 lars\, digital archivists and international organisations to share experie
 nces of mapping ethno-linguistic diversity using interactive digital techn
 ologies.\n\nThere is a growing sense of public and scholarly concern about
  the future of orally transmitted knowledge in the face of rapid socio-eco
 nomic change. Linguists have responded decisively to the threatened disapp
 earance of many endangered speech forms by embarking on urgent documentati
 on projects\, training a new generation of field linguists\, and partnerin
 g with members of speech communities invested in the preservation and revi
 talisation of their threatened tongues. Many such collaborations result in
  visually-rich digital outputs with geospatial components\, and represent 
 research findings through web interfaces that use sophisticated protocols 
 to ensure that online access is granted at the appropriate level. Similarl
 y\, anthropologists are working with technologists and communities of orig
 in to develop platforms for curating and disseminating cultural heritage i
 n ways that reflect and respond to local needs.\n\nThis practical workshop
  brings university-based researchers in anthropology\, geography and lingu
 istics into conversation with representatives from international agencies 
 and organisations that aggregate and disseminate large holdings of ethnogr
 aphic and linguistic data. Through brief presentations and extended discus
 sions\, participants will explore innovative ways of visualising cultural 
 and linguistic diversity and share appropriate techniques and tools for re
 presenting endangerment\, both cartographically and geospatially.\n\nPrese
 ntations will be clustered into thematic panels that address representatio
 ns of traditional knowledge in digital domains\; online anthropology and d
 igital collections\; geospatial tools and community activism\; speech atla
 ses and language maps from institutional and community perspectives\, and 
 a session focussed on visualisation tools used by language archives. Along
 side scholars representing leading research programmes in these fields\, w
 e will be joined by colleagues from UNESCO\, Ethnologue\, Google Foundatio
 n and Alexander Street Press. The workshop will open with a lecture and ex
 hibition by Tim Brookes of the Endangered Alphabets Project.
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
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