January saw the ELAR team literally and metaphorically snowed under with loads of exciting collections coming in and has been working really hard with a view to a snow-covered Russell Square (and some very creative uses of trash bins) to make them available to our users.
Creative uses of a Camden Council trash bin!
Snowed under in Russell Square, SOAS, London (Jan 2013)
We are very excited to have received data for the following new collections:
- Kyitu (Siti) Language Archive (Jonathan BRINDLE, ELDP grant SG0120)
- Documentation of Kubeo (Thiago CHACON, ELDP grant SG0038)
- Koasati and Language Practices of the Coushatta Tribe (Stephanie HASSELBACHER, ELDP grant IGS0138)
- Documentation of Ayt Atta Tamazight (Simone MAURI, independent researcher)
- Malaccan Portuguese Creole: A Portuguese-based Creole (Stephanie PILLAI, ELDP grant SG0138)
- Culturally informed corpus of Dalabon (Maia PONSONNET, ELDP grant IGS0125)
- Documenting traditional agricultural songs and stories of the Sumi Nagas (Amos TEO, ELDP grant SG0119)
ELAR was also pleased to receive the following updates to collections we already hold:
- The painter’s eye, the painter’s voice: language, art and landscape in the Gija world (Frances KOFOD, ELDP grant MDP0190)
- Documentation of the moribund language Mmani, a Southern Atlantic language of Niger-Congo (Tucker CHILDS and Jedd SCHROCK, ELDP grant MDP0085)
- Ingrian narratives recorded in 2011 by Fedor Rozhanskiy and Elena Markus (Fedor ROZHANSKIY and Elena MARKUS, ELDP grant MDP 0211)
- Ingrian, Votic, and Ingrian Finnish elicitations and conversations recorded by Mehmet Muslimov (Fedor ROZHANSKIY and Elena MARKUS, ELDP grant MDP 0211)
- Ingrian narratives and elicitations recorded by Ilya Nikolaev in 1996-2002 (Fedor ROZHANSKIY and Elena MARKUS, ELDP grant MDP 0211)
The ELAR team will be working on data conditioning the collections in the next few weeks and we will be further in touch with depositors with comments or questions, before we proceed with adding the relevant metadata, making them easier to browse and search. As these collections are work-in-progress, you can expect these collection pages to change with more information about the data and the fieldwork conducted as ELAR staff and depositors update them.
Many thanks to all our depositors for their hard work!
