lessons from digitizing a linguistic atlas sheila embleton, dorin uritescu and eric s. wheeler york...
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Lessons from Digitizing a Linguistic Atlas
Sheila Embleton, Dorin Uritescu and
Eric S. Wheeler
York University Toronto, Canada
Outline Introduction to RODA
Practical Lessons
General Lessons
Introduction to RODA
Romanian
Romanian and Romance
Noul Atlas lingvistic român. Crisana Crisana region in
north-west Romania
Hard copy atlas by Stan and Uritescu (1996, 2003, etc)
Digitize to make it more accessible
Objective Use Information Technology to
permit a broad range of scholars to access the data, select the data appropriately, and present the data clearly;
and so gain greater understanding of its significance.
Digitizing the data
RODA custom font
Search, count, display, compare
Multidimensional Scaling
Lessons Learned
Previous projects Finnish (Kettunen 1940)
Digitized a large, out-of-print atlas English (Computerized Linguistic
Atlas of English -- CLAE) Used someone else’s digital data
Practical Custom data entry Flat files Modular application Flexible development process Good editing team for quality control
RODA virtual keyboard
Data file
RODA: Romanian Online Dialect Atlas (Crişana)
http://www.yorku.ca/vpaweb/romanian/
Contacts Sheila [email protected] Dorin [email protected] Eric [email protected]
Test sites: ericwheeler.ca/test
General More than maps:
Access to data More than “isoglosses”
Multiple ways of seeing geographic variation
More than Dialectology Across disciplines
Interpretive map
Data as editable list
Selection
General More than maps:
Access to data More than “isoglosses”
Multiple ways of seeing geographic variation
More than Dialectology Across disciplines
Hierarchy of dialect patterns
General More than maps:
Access to data More than “isoglosses”
Multiple ways of seeing geographic variation
More than Dialectology Across disciplines
Online Dialect Atlas Access to data
The power of Information Technology to:• Store• Search• Present
Rapid, repeatable, consistent processing of the data
RODA: Romanian Online Dialect Atlas (Crişana)
http://www.yorku.ca/vpaweb/romanian/