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Database To Save Endangered Languages
Researchers at Eastern Michigan University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Arizona, led by Anthony Aristar (Wayne SU), are developing an endangered languages database and central information server to allow users to access digitized linguistic data remotely. Funded by NSF, the Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data (E-MELD) project will collect data on endangered languages and devise a web-based protocol to make new and existing data accessible by computer. The project will start with 10 endangered languages to design a system modeled on the Internet, where standard communications protocols allow users to access information housed on a variety of very different operating systems, including UNIX, Windows-NT, and VMS. The first version of E-MELD is expected to appear online this fall at: http://www.linguistlist.org.
National Endowment for the Humanities
The NEH 1999 Annual Report is now available at the NEH website: http://www.neh.gov. It contains brief descriptions of Endowment programs as well as a complete listing of all Endowment grants, entered by the division and program in which they were funded, for fiscal year 1999 (1 October 1998 - 30 September 1999). For hard copies (free while the supply lasts), contact: NEH 1999 Annual Report, Rm 401, 1100 Pennsylvania Av, NW, Washington, DC 20506; info@neh.gov.
Prospective NEH Panelists Alert
NEH recently announced Prism, a new online panelist database. Potential candidates for slots on NEH panels can now sign up online to become panelists in the future by filling out a form available at: http://www.neh.gov/prism. Those already in the panelist database should complete the form as well (the current database is not compatible with the new one). NEH will continue to use both databases for some time to ensure that they are drawing from the widest pool of experts available.
Summer Institutes
European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, 14th (ESSLLI-2002). 13-24 August 2002 in Trento, Italy. Contact: Claire Gardent, ESSLLI-2002, LORIA, BP 239 Campus Scientifique, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France; 33-3-83-59-2039; fax: 33-3-83-27-5652; claire.garden@loria.fr; http://www.esslli.org/2002/esslli-2002.html.
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