2004

Annotating Multi-media / Multi-modal resources with ELAN

This paper shows the actual state of development of the manual annotation tool ELAN. It presents usage requirements from three different groups of users and how one annotation model and a number of generic design principles guided the choices made during the development process of ELAN.

Collaborative Annotation of Sign Language Data with Peer-to-Peer Technology

Collaboration on annotation projects is in practice mostly done by people sharing the same room. However, several models for online cooperative annotation over the internet are possible. This paper explores and evaluates these, and reports on the use of peer-to-peer technology to extend a multimedia annotation tool (ELAN) with functions that support collaborative annotation.

Erwartungen der “Linguistik”Community anD-GRID

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Towards Metadata Interoperability -from a data driven perspective -

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Architecture for Distributed Language Resource Management and Archiving

An architecture is presented that provides an integrated framework for managing, archiving and accessing language resources. This architecture was discussed in the DELAMAN network – a world-wide network of archives holding material about endangered languages. Such a framework will be built upon a metadata infrastructure, a mechanism to resolve unique resource identifiers, user and access rights management components. These components are closely related and have to be based on redundant and distributed services. For all these components existing middleware seems to be available, however, it has to be checked how they can interact with each other.

The DOBES Programme and its Contribution to Documentation and Revitalization

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Databases for Linguistic Purposes

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Language Documentation, for whom and how?

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Cross-Disciplinary Integration of Metadata Descriptions

Within the ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online) project an integrated domain of metadata repositories was created covering data from 5 different humanities disciplines. The integration required intensive work on encoding, syntactical and especially the semantic level, since interoperability is still difficult to be achieved. An ontology was created and a search engine that makes use of the knowledge components. This work within ECHO is seen as one of the practical contributions on the way towards the Semantic Web.

ISO / Elsnet Stuff

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A Large Metadata Domain of Language Resources

The INTERA and ECHO projects were partly intended to create a critical mass of open and linked metadata descriptions of language resources, helping researchers to understand the benefits of an increased visibility of language resources in the Internet and motivating them to participate. The work was based on the new IMDI version 3.0.3 which is a result of experiences with the earlier versions and new requirements coming from the involved partners. While in INTERA major data centers in Europe are participating, the ECHO project focuses on resources that can be seen as part of cultural heritage. Currently, 27 institutions and projects are active with the goal of having a large browsable and searchable domain by the summer of 2004. Experience shows that the creation of high quality metadata is not trivial and asks for a considerable amount of effort and skills, since manual work alone is too time consuming.

Sprachenvielfalt, ein Opfer der Globalisierung?

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Technology – Broad View

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DOBES/MPI Archive -architecture -

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XML-Based Language Archiving

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XML-Based Language Archiving

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