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Help us build an open public collection of the world's nearly 7,000 human languages.

Volunteer Opportunities

The Rosetta Project has a volunteer internship program, which helps train researchers in the practice of archiving linguistic documentation as well as providing some exposure to the activities and operation of a nonprofit foundation. Internships are mentored, take place on site, and involve both archive management as well as a special project worked out between the intern and mentor to be completed during the period of the internship. Internships are typically from 2-3 months, and can take place at any time of the year (summer internship slots are popular with students, and tend to be more competitive). If you are interested in becoming a Rosetta Project intern, please send email describing your background and interest along with your résumé (included as text in the body of the message, no attachments please) to rosetta@longnow.org.

Contributing to The Rosetta Project Collection

The Rosetta Project accepts a wide variety of materials that help document the languages of the world. If you would like to help build this open public collection through materials you have assembled or created, please contact rosetta@longnow.org and tell us more about them.

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The Rosetta Project relies on private gifts and grants to fund all of its programs and activities. Every gift is important to us and makes our continued work on the project possible.

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Merchandise and Gifts that Give Back

Proceeds from these purchases help support The Rosetta Project

Rosetta Disk DVD 1.0
$15

This DVD is a fully browsable digital version of the Rosetta Disk Language Archive, Version 1, powered by the OpenLayers 2.5 map visualization framework. Zoom in to read the microscopic text on both sides of the disk, including the language archive that contains over 13,000 pages of documentation on 1,500 human languages - a collection of information that attests to the richness of our human cultural and linguistic diversity in the 21st century.

Rosetta Rubber Stamp
$10

An image of the human-eye readable side of the Rosetta Disk, made into a rubber stamp. Hardwood mount, approximately 3 inches square. To select this design in The Long Now Foundation store, click the link above and choose "Rosetta" in the pull down menu.

Universal Principles of Design.
$27

Author William Lidwell holds a First Edition Rosetta Disk, which he presents in this book as an example of "communicating novel information using elements of common understanding." When you click the link above and purchase through Amazon, The Rosetta Project gets a contribution.