OLAC Record oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/24685

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Title:		Chirila: Contemporary and Historical Resources for the Indigenous Languages of Australia
Bibliographic Citation:		Bowern, Claire; 2016-03; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24685.
Creator:		Bowern, Claire
Date (W3CDTF):		2016-03
Description:		Here I present the background to, and a description of, a newly developed database of historical and contemporary lexical data for Australian languages (Chirila), concentrating on the Pama-Nyungan family (the largest family in the country). While the database was initially developed in order to facilitate research on cognate words and reconstructions, it has had many uses beyond its original purpose, in synchronic theoretical linguistics, language documentation, and language reclamation. Creating a multi-audience database of this type has been challenging, however. Some of the challenges stemmed from success: as the size of the database grew, the original data structure became unwieldy. Other challenges grew from the difficulties in anticipating future needs, in keeping track of materials, and in coping with diverse input formats for so many highly endangered languages. In this paper I document the structure of the database, provide an overview of its uses (both in diachronic and synchronic research), and discuss some of the issues that have arisen during the project and choices that needed to be made as the database was created, compiled, curated, and shared. I address here the major problems that arise with linguistic data, particularly databases created for diverse audiences, from diverse data, with little infrastructure support.
		National Foreign Language Resource Center
Format:		44
Identifier:		Bowern, Claire. 2016. Chirila: Contemporary and Historical Resources for the Indigenous Languages of Australia. Language Documentation & Conservation 10. 1-44.
		1934-5275
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24685
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Publisher:		University of Hawaii Press
Rights:		Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Subject:		Chirila
		Australian languages
		Pama-Nyungan language family
		Databases
		language documentation
Table Of Contents:		bowern.pdf
Type:		Article
Type (DCMI):		Text
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Citation:		Bowern, Claire. 2016. University of Hawaii Press.
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