Technical Documentation

Modeling Contested Categorization in Linguistic Databases by Jeff Good and Calvin Hendryx-Parker. Presents the Rosetta database architecture, including a discussion of an RDF implementation to represent non-stable, contested categories (currently in development). (Paper presented at the 2006 E-MELD Workshop in Lansing, Michigan.)

Digital Conversion of Sound Recordings A description of Rosetta practices for converting analog audio recordings to digital files for archiving and presentation on the web.

The Rosetta Disk

Fifty to ninety percent of the world's languages are predicted to disappear in the next century, many with little or no significant documentation.