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SIL 

Summer Institute of Linguistics (http://www.sil.org) 

SMIL Synchronized

 

Multimedia

 

Integration

 

Language (Markup

 

language 

for interactive audiovisual presentations;

 

http://www.w3c.org/TR/ 

2001/REC-smil2020010807) 

SPEAKING 

Setting/Scene, Participants, Ends, Act Sequence, Key, Instrument-

alities, Norms, Genre (mnemonic abbreviation for major compo-

nents of the speech situation; see Chapter 5) 

TEI 

Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org) 

TIFF 

Tagged Image File Format (Digital graphics file format; 

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/tiff/index.html) 

ToBI 

TOnes and Breaks Index (System for transcribing features of 

prosody, including intonation patterns; http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/ 

facilities/help/xwaves/tobi.shtml) 

UNICODE 

UNIversal CODE (World-wide 16-bit character encoding 

standard; http://www.unicode.org) 

UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32  

Unicode Transformation Format (Format used to store 

 UNI-

CODE encoded data in different bit structures: 7-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 

32-bit; http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#UTF) 

VCD 

Video Compact Disc 

W3C 

World Wide Web Consortium (organization that develops and 

standardizes digital formats) 

WAV 

WAVeform audio (Digital audio format;  

 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316992 

 

#XSLTH3123121122120121120120) 

WIPO 

World Intellectual Property Organization (http://www.wipo.int) 

WMA 

Windows Media Audio (Digital audio format;  

 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316992 

#XSLTH3123121122120121120120) 

WMV 

Windows Media Video (Digital video format; 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316992 

#XSLTH3123121122120121120120) 

WWW 

World Wide Web (Internet) 

WYSIWYG 

What You See Is What You Get 

XLS 

eXceL Spreadsheet (Spreadsheet format of MS Excel; 

http://www.microsoft.com/Office/Excel/prodinfo/default.mspx) 

XML 

eXtensible Markup Language (Text markup language; 

http://xml.coverpages.org/xml.html) 

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XSL 

eXtensible Stylesheet Language (Stylesheet language for 

 

XML; http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl) 

XSLT 

 XSL Transformation (Language for transforming 

 XML 

documents into other 

 XML documents; www.w3.org/TR/xslt) 

 

Webresources 

Resources on ethics and rights are listed at the end of Chapter 2. 

Language archives and archiving initiatives 

AILLA 

Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America 

(http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/welcome.html)  

DELAMAN 

Digital Endangered Languages And Music Archives Network 

(http://www.delaman.org) 

DoBeS Archive  Archive of the 

 DoBeS programme housed by the 

 MPI for 

Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (http://www.mpi.nl/dobes) 

ELAR 

Endangered Languages Archive (archive of 

 HRELP; 

http://www.hrelp.org/archive) 

PARADISEC 

Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered 

Cultures (http://paradisec.org.au) 

 

see also: 

Language Archives Newsletter (http://www.mpi.nl/LAN) 

 

Endangered Languages (general information) 

E-MELD 

Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data 

(http://emeld.org)  

Endangered languages e-mail list  

(Coombs, Australian National University; http://www.bris.ac.uk/ 

Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/endangered-languages-l.html) 

Ethnologue 

 SIL’s encyclopedic reference work  

(http://www.ethnologue.com) 

FEL 

Foundation for Endangered Languages 

(http://www.ogmios.org/home.htm) 

GBS 

Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen (http://www.uni-koeln.de/gbs) 

Linguist list 

e-Mail list for linguistics (http://www.linguistlist.org) 

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Sponsors and funding programmes for work on endangered languages 

DoBeS 

DOkumentation BEdrohter Sprachen (Documentation of endangered  

languages; funding programme of the Volkswagenstiftung; 

  

http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/foerderung/foerderinitiativen/ 

merkblaetter/merkdoku_e.html) 

ELF 

Endangered Languages Fund (http://sapir.ling.yale.edu/%7Eelf ) 

ELDP 

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (documentation 

programme of 

 HRELP; http://www.hrelp.org/grants) 

FEL 

Foundation for Endangered Languages (www.ogmios.org/home.htm) 

GBS 

Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen (http://www.uni-koeln.de/gbs) 

HRELP 

Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (Funding programme 

for endangered languages; http://www.hrelp.org) 

NSF/NEH 

National Science Foundation / National Endowment for the Human-

ities / Smithsonian Institute Documenting Endangered Languages 

programme (www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05590/nsf05590.htm) 

NWO 

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Endangered 

Languages programme (http://www.nwo.nl/subsidiewijzer.nsf/pages/ 

NWOP_55AD9Y?Opendocument) 

 

Software links 

  

Software supporting transcription, annotation, time-linking 

CHILDES 

CHIld Language Data Exchange System (Tools for studying con-

versational interactions including those for coding and analyzing 

transcripts; http://childes.psy.cmu.edu) 

CLAN 

Child Language Analysis (Tools for studying conversational inter-

actions including those for coding and analyzing transcripts;  

http://childes.psy.cmu.edu) 

ELAN E

UDICO

 Linguistic Annotator (Tool for time-linking audio or video 

recordings and annotations; various search and export options; 

http://www.mpi.nl/tools/elan.html) 

LEXUS 

(Lexicon tool; http://www.mpi.nl/LEXUS) 

SIL Shoebox   Tool for interlinearizing text and managing lexical data base – now 

replaced by 

 SIL Toolbox (http://www.sil.org/computing/ 

shoebox/index.html) 

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