• 11 years, 8 months ago by Karin Wiecha

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  • 12 years, 4 months ago by Laura Welcher

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  • 12 years, 4 months ago by Austin Brown

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  • 12 years, 11 months ago by Austin Brown

    Dr. Laura Welcher at Berkeley Language Center, November 9th

  • 13 years ago by Austin Brown

    Dr. Laura Welcher speaking at the Internationalization and Unicode Conference

  • 13 years, 1 month ago by Laura Welcher

    A Record-a-thon for Human Language

  • 13 years, 3 months ago by

    RECORD-A-THON - This Saturday July 30!

    Join us for the Record-a-thon this Saturday July 30 at the Internet Archive and help document and promote the languages used in your own community! We need your help to meet our goal of recording 50 languages in a single day! How many languages can you help us document? Bring yourself and your multilingual friends and be the stars of your own grassroots language documentation project!

    Keynote Speaker: Dr. Elisabeth Lindsey, National Geographic

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    Updated Schedule of Events!

    Plan to attend in-person or remotely?

    RSVP here through EventBrite!

    (Tickets are free - your RSVP will allow us to prepare for numbers to expect and what equipment is going to be present, whether you intend to come in person or if you’re participating remotely.)
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  • 13 years, 4 months ago by Laura Welcher

    RECORD-A-THON

    RECORD-A-THON

    Help us record 50 languages in a single day!

    Save the date! Saturday July 30, 02011 from 9 am to 6 pm
    The Internet Archive
    at 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco

    Did you know...

    There is something you can do to help document and promote the languages used in your own community! We need your help to meet our goal of recording 50 languages in a single day! How many languages can you help us document? Bring yourself and your multilingual friends and be the stars of your own grassroots language documentation project!

    Professional linguists and videographers will be on site to document you and your friends speaking word lists, reading texts, and telling stories. You can also document your language using tools you probably have in your purse or back pocket — a mobile phone, digital camera, or laptop — just bring your device and our team will guide you through the documentation process.

    How do your words and stories make a difference? An important part of language documentation is building a corpus — creating collections of vocabulary words, as well as conversations and stories that demonstrate language in use. From a corpus, linguists and speech technologists can build grammars, dictionaries, and tools that enable a language to be used online. The bigger the corpus, the better the tools!

    The recordings you make during the event will be added to The Rosetta Project's open collection of all human language in The Internet Archive. And, you can compete for cool prizes, including an iPad 2 for the participant who records and uploads the most languages during the event!

    Please RSVP below and let us know if you plan to attend, and what language or languages you are thinking of recording. Can't make it to the Record-a-thon? Join us online the day of the event for the virtual Record-a-thon, where you'll be able to interact with event staff, monitor event progress, listen live to lectures and talks, and submit your own recordings remotely.

    We will be in touch soon with more information about the day's events, and how you can participate! For questions or more information please contact rosetta@longnow.org.

  • 13 years, 7 months ago by Austin Brown

    Dr. Laura Welcher - The Rosetta Project & The Language Commons

  • 14 years ago by Laura Welcher

    Rosetta Disk at the Hammer Museum for an "Enormous Microscopic Evening"

    Join Long Now's Rosetta Project on November 4 from 4 - 7 pm at UCLA's Hammer Museum where we team up with San Francisco-based CRITTER for an Enormous Microscopic Evening. We'll put a Rosetta Disk under the microscope, check out the fine (and finer) print, and maybe hunt for Easter eggs... More information on the evening's lineup from the Hammer Museum:

    Enormous Microscopic Evening examines the museum from a microscopic perspective with CRITTER, a San Francisco-based salon dedicated to expanding the relationships between culture and the environment. The evening will focus on demonstrations and workshops about building and manipulating microscopes. Materials and samples taken from around the museum will be examined. Continuing the theme of microscopy, there will be micro performances (short concerts with tiny instruments) and other related events throughout the museum.

    Critter
  • 14 years, 5 months ago by Laura Welcher

    The Rosetta Project at Maker Faire 02010

    Rosetta Project linguists and archivists traveled to Maker Faire this past weekend to demo the Rosetta Disk for a crowd of nearly 80,000 people. We brought the first and second prototypes of the Rosetta Disk, and set up a microscope with a camera to view Disk pages up close. We also had a "Digitization Station" where Maker Faire attendees could watch and participate in the collection of language documentation for the disk.

    Would you like to help translate the subtitles of this video? You can here at dotSUB.

  • 14 years, 7 months ago by Laura Welcher

    The Global Lives Project - World Premiere Opening Night

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