Fieldwork Friends
This focus group is an initiative led by RTG students to foster a network for sharing knowledge and practices related to linguistic fieldwork. The group’s primary aim is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences regarding modern methodologies in data collection, processing, annotation, and field data archiving.
Key areas
Field data collection
Technical prerequisites for data recordings and empirical designs for field experiments and building field corpora, basic issues like ethics in the field and organizing field metadata
Materials
Linguistics of Field data
Methodological reflections on linguistic data gathering procedures, guidelines for linguistic fieldwork, reflections on working with rural populations in different cultures.
Materials
Matthewson, Lisa 2015. On the methodology of semantic fieldwork. IJAL 70.4, 369-415
Bochnak, M. Ryan, and Lisa Matthewson 2015 (eds), Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork. New York: Oxford University Press
Thieberger, Nicholas 2011 (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork. New York: Oxford University Press
Field data processing
Tools such as ELAN for transcription and FLEx for data glossing
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Field data annotation
Methods like Universal Dependencies (UD) for syntax and adhering to FAIR standards for creating annotations.
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Field data archiving
Making corpora accessible through platforms hosting multilayer annotations, and sustainable archiving for long-term accessibility (Zenodo and GRO.data).
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Activities
Group meetings
Discussion on best practices, tools, and standards in Linguistic Fieldwork
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Tutorials
By invited experts on specialized topics
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Workshops
Exchanging on field approaches and outcomes of field trips
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Networks
Reaching out relevant communities, integrating expertise
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Friends
Rebecca ArkellMarta Hegret
Madeline Ladore
Stavros Skopeteas