General

• If you want descriptions of computer programs relevant to field work, cost details and computer requirements, as well as a link to the URL where the program can be obtained, the following site is for you. If you've been wondering about the role of computers in linguistics or want to use computers to your advantage in managing you data, go here:

    Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide: http://www.routledge.com/linguistics/using-comp.html

Or, go directly to the chapter on software of relevance to field work: http://www.sil.org/computing/routledge/antworth-valentine/

• The following site has questionnaires that may assist both inexperienced and experience field linguistics, stimuli kits for data elicitation, links to programs of use to field linguists and much more:

  Software Tools and Other Useful Tidbits for Field Linguistics and Language Description: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/fieldtools/tools.htm

• Claire Bowern has compiled a list of links on linguistic field work also. To name but a few, there are links on elicitation guides and stimuli materials, links to pages on the subject of endangered languages (particularly of Australia ), and links to hardware and software pertaining to field work:

  http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling407/407links.htm

• Train your ear—learn to distinguish the sounds of the IPA:

  http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=16

ttp://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/contents.html

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Archiving

• AIATSIS—Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au
  
  
• AILLA—The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/welcome.html
  
  
• ANLC—Alaska Native Language Center : http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/  
  
  
  • Information for Depositors: http://www.ailla.utexas.org/site/dep_info.html
    
    
• Creolist Archives: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/creolist.html
  
  
• DCMI— Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: http://dublincore.org/
  
  
• DOBES — DOkumentation BEdrohter Sprachen: http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/
  
  
• E-MELD—Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data: http://emeld.org/index.cfm
  
  
• GOLD Community—to bring together those interested in the best-practice encoding of linguistic data: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/copar/bulletins.htm
  
  
• Guide to Preserving Anthropological Records: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/copar/bulletins.htm
  
  
• The International Standard for Language Engineering: http://www.mpi.nl/ISLE/
  
  
  • Their page on Related Projects-Metadata Overview: http://www.mpi.nl/ISLE/overview/overview_frame.html
    
    
• LACITO—Langues & Civilisations à Tradition orales: http://lacito.archivage.vjf.cnrs.fr/
  
  
• Max Planck Institute Language Archive: http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser/
  
  
• OLAC—Open Language Archives Community: http://www.language-archives.org/
  
  
• PARADISEC—Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures: http://www.paradisec.org.au/home.html
  
  
  • Form for depositing material in the PARADISEC archive: http://paradisec.org.au/PdsCdeposit.htm
    
    
• The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian issued on March 11, 2005 a "Native Languages Archives Repository Project Reference Guide. It has sections on:
  

  1. Why Preserve Native Heritage Language Materials?
  2. What to Preserve: A Practical Approach to Preservation
  3. What is a Language Repository?
  4. How to Build Infrastructure to Preserve Native Language Materials
  5. Where to Locate Resources in Selected Native Repositories and How to Find Selected Native Language Materials
  6. Where to Locate Resources in Selected Educational, Federal and Other Repositories
  7. What Does Preservation Cost?

   

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Computer Programs and Applications

• Audacity—software for recording and editing sound: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
  
  
• Audiamus—a tool for building corpora of linked transcripts and digitised media
  (MACINTOSH): http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/thieberger/audiamus.htm
  
  
• CHARwrite©—a web-based IPA keyboard for the input of phonetic transcription: http://emeld.org/tools/charwrite.cfm
  
  
• ELAN (a multimedia annotator) and ECON (a converter between Translator, Shoebox and ELAN) as well as other tools are available from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: http://www.mpi.nl/tools/index.html
  
  
• Field Input Environment for Linguistic Data: http://emeld.org/tools/fieldinput.cfm
  
  
• Praat: Doing phonetics by computer: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
  
  
• TableTrans in the Annotation Graph Tool Kit—formal framework for representing linguistics annotations of time series: http://agtk.sourceforge.net/
  
  
• Toolbox—data management, parsing and text analysis: http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
  
  
• Tools of the Lacito Archive: http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/archivage/outils.htm
  
  
  • Interlinear Text Editor—a text editor for XML documents that allows the glossing of a document showing sentences in an interlinear presentation: http://michel.jacobson.free.fr/ITE/
    
    
  • SoundIndex—synchronize text and sound: http://michel.jacobson.free.fr/soundIndex/
    
    
• Transana—qualitative analysis software for video and audio data: http://www.transana.org/
  
  
• Transcriber—a tool for segmenting, labeling and transcribing speech: http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php
  
  
  • Tips for using Transcriber: http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/LSA.301/transcriber-tips.htm
    
    
• SIL's software catalogue: http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/index.asp
  
  
• Shoebox—data management: http://www.sil.org/computing/shoebox/
  
  
  • (Peter Austin's paper Developing Interactive Knowledgebase for Australian Aborigianl Languages http://emeld.org/workshop/2003/Malyangapa.pdf gives an example of what an be achieved with the use of computer programs in corpus documentation and analysis)
    
    
• VoiceWalker—a discourse transcription utility: (details and description) http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/resources/computing/download/documentation.htm
  
  
  • (download for free from) http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/resources/computing/download/download.htm

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Fonts

• Doulos SIL Font: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=DoulosSILfont
  
  
• International Phonetic Association: http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html
  
  
• IPAScript— program for generating IPA symbols immediately from SAMPA: http://www.elgin.free-online.co.uk/is_intro.htm
  
  
• SAMPA & X-SAMPA—computer readable phonetic alphabet: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm
  
  
• Unicode Home Page: http://www.unicode.org/

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Microphones/Recorders

• Audio Technology: http://www.historicalvoices.org/oralhistory/audio-tech.html
  
  
• Linguist List entry about Field Recording Equipment:
  http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-720.html
  
  
• Learn about the different types of microphones: http://www.hrelp.org/archive/advice/microphones.html
  
  
• A comprehensive guide to microphones and audio recording equipment on the market: http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/res_audioequip.htm

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