Resources for Language Documenters and ELAR Depositors
The Depositors’ Resource Collection contains many useful resources for language documenters, whether you are planning to deposit your project’s collection with ELAR or somewhere else.
DATA MANAGEMENT AND TOOL SUPPORT
The Data Preparation bundle and the Metadata Creation bundle contain resources that are likely to be of interest to language documenters in general.
These bundles contain materials on the following topics of general interest for language documenters:
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| Data Management | ELAN Fundamentals | ELAN Intermediate |
| The available guides and video tutorials cover topics related to file names, file types and how to organise your files in bundles. | In this module you will learn how to create your transcriptions and translations based on an predefined ELAN template. It includes PDF guides, video tutorials and a teaching set with sample files. | ELAN Intermediate shows you how to customise the ELAN template available in ELAN Fundamentals for your own project needs. |
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| ELAN-FLEx-ELAN workflow | FLEx Project Creation and Settings | FLEx Lexicon Basics |
| The video tutorials and PDF documents in this module will guide you through the process of exchanging your transcriptions and translations between ELAN and FLEx. | With the guides available in this module you will learn how to install and create your FLEx database. It will also show you how to set up the languages and writing systems that FLEx will be using. | How to create a lexicon in FLEx, how to add multimedia elements to your lexicon entries and how to export your lexicon are the topics covered in this module. |
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| FFmpeg Basics | SayMore for BOLD | IPA Input Methods |
| With FFmpeg Basics you learn how to install and use FFmpeg for video conversion, concatenation and audio extraction. | With these guides, you will learn how to use SayMore to make recordings of oral translations and careful speech repetitions as a part of a Basic Oral Language Documentation (BOLD) workflow. You will also learn how to edit the resulting .eaf files to link the correct media files and have consistent tier structure. | In this guide, you will learn best practices for inputting special characters, how to choose a Unicode font, and how to use Keyman to input IPA characters. |
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| Metadata Creation with Lameta | Topics, Keywords & Genres | |
| The video tutorials and PDF documents in this module guide you through the process of creating metadata for all your files using Lameta. | Full PDF guide to picking good topics, keywords, and genres. |
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| Depositing Overview | Uploading using Preservica Starter | Adding files to existing bundles |
| A4 quick guide to ELAR depositing workflows. | Full guide describing how to upload to ELAR using Preservica’s Starter tool. | Full guide describing how to add files (for example, transcriptions) to bundles that have already been deposited with ELAR. |
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| Editing metadata for existing bundles | ||
| Full guide describing how to edit metadata in bundles that have already been deposited with ELAR. |
This collection is always growing and being updated, so check back soon for more resources!
DEPOSITING WITH ELAR
For ELAR Depositors, we provide comprehensive documentation on the uploading process in the bundle called Depositing with ELAR (available here). If you have not already been in touch with ELAR, please email us to tell us more about your collection and to learn more about the whole archiving process.
For more information about archiving with ELAR, check out these blog posts:
How materials are preserved at ELAR
6 Tips for getting the most out of ELAR’s new platform
