Credits

Page Index

• Web Development Team
• Data Providers
• Working Groups 2004
• Working Groups 2003
• Consultants

Web Development Team

The web development team consists of students and former students of Eastern Michigan University and Wayne State University. These individuals are, or have been, supported by these institutions and The LINGUIST List.

• Michael Appleby, Eastern Michigan University
• Andrea Berez, Wayne State University
• Jessica Boynton, Eastern Michigan University
• Zhenwei Chen, Eastern Michigan University
• Anne Clarke, Eastern Michigan University
• Himanshu Dalal, Eastern Michigan University
• Marisa Ferrara, Eastern Michigan University
• Naomi Fox, Wayne State University
• Richard John Harvey, Eastern Michigan University
• Susan Hooyenga, Eastern Michigan University
• Madhavi Jammalamdaka, Eastern Michigan University
• Shamayal Jawed, Eastern Michigan University
• Dina Kapetangianni, University of Michigan
• Takako Matsui, Eastern Michigan University
• Karen Milligan, Wayne State University
• Steven Moran, Eastern Michigan University
• Sarah Murray, Wayne State University
• Prashant Nagaraja, Eastern Michigan University
• Tomoko Okuno, Eastern Michigan University
• Neil Salmond, Eastern Michigan University
• Ann Sawyer, Wayne State University
• Tetyana Sydorenko, Eastern Michigan University
• Gayathri Sriram, Eastern Michigan University
• Heather Taylor, University of Maryland
• Sadie Williams, Eastern Michigan University
• Amy Wronkowicz, Wayne State University
• Megan Zdrojkowski, Eastern Michigan University

Data Providers

• The Biao Min data was graciously provided by Dr. David Solnit.Dr. Martha Ratliff, Wayne State University, acted as a language consultant in matters relating to Biao Min.
• The Mocoví data was graciously provided by Dr. Verónica Grondona, Eastern Michigan University.
• The Potawatomi data was graciously provided by Dr. Laura Buszard-Welcher, then at Wayne State University, and now of the Longnow Foundation.
• The Monguor data was graciously provided by Dr. Arienne Dwyer, University of Kansas, Dr. Wang Xianzhen, Dr. Limusishiden (Li Dechen), and Ms. Lu Wanfang.
• The Ega data was graciously provided by Dafydd Gibbon, Universität Bielefeld, Bruce Connell, Oxford University, and Firmin Ahoua, Université de Cocody.
• The Sáliba data was graciously provided by Dr. Gary Simons, Dr. Paul Frank, and Ms. Nancy Morse of SIL International.
• The Tofa data was graciously provided by Dr. K. David Harrison of Swarthmore College.
• The Kayardild data was graciously provided by Dr. Nicholas Evans, Dr. Baden Hughes, Ms. Cathy Bow and Dr. Steven Bird.
• The Dena'ina data was graciously provided by Dr. James Kari.
• The Sisaala data was graciously provided by Steven Moran.
• The Navajo data was graciously provided by Dr. Douglas Whalen.

Working Groups 2004

The following working groups contributed to the information in the School of Best Practice, and made invaluable suggestions for site usability and accessibility. These working groups convened at the E-MELD Language Digitization Project Conference 2004: Linguistic Databases and Best Practice held in Detroit, Michigan, July 15-18, 2004.

• 1. The Entrance Hall / Reading Room

  • Jeff Good, University of Pittsburgh, Chair
  • Steven Moran, Eastern Michigan University, Liaison
  • Emily Bender, University of Washington
  • Shauna Eggers, University of Arizona
  • Jonathan Evans, Academica Sinica
  • Verónica Grondona, Eastern Michigan University
  • Ada Kovaci, Indiana University
  • Paul Kroeber, Indiana University
  • Ron Zacharski, New Mexico State University

• 2. The Exhibit Hall / Case Studies

  • Arienne Dwyer, University of Kansas, Chair
  • Stephanie Stoll, Eastern Michigan University, Liaison
  • Laura Buszard-Welcher, Eastern Michigan University
  • Lyle Campbell, University of Utah
  • Östen Dahl, Stockholm University
  • Naomi Fox, Wayne State University
  • John Lesko, Saginaw State
  • Johanna Nichols, University of California at Berkeley
  • Wallace Hooper, Indiana University

• 3. The Classroom: Annotation, Unicode, Work Room

  • Dafydd Gibbon, Universität Bielefeld, Chair
  • Megan Zdrojkowski, Eastern Michigan University, Liaison
  • Anthony Aristar, Wayne State University
  • Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
  • Zhenwei Chen, Linguist List
  • Chin-Chuan Cheng, Academica Sinica
  • Artem Chebotko, Wayne State University
  • David Harrison, Yale
  • Will Lewis, CSU Fresno
  • Donald Salting, North Dakota University
  • Jozsef Szakos, Providence University
  • Dietmar Zaefferer, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München

• 4. The Classroom: Images, Audio, Video, Conversion

  • Peter Wittenberg, Max Planck Institute, Chair
  • Susan Hooyenga, Eastern Michigan University, Liaison
  • Michael Appleby, Eastern Michigan University
  • Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan University
  • Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Max Planck Institute
  • Yu Deng, Wayne State University
  • John Lowe, UC Berkeley
  • Hans Nelson, Brigham Young University
  • Barbara Need, University of Chicago
  • Laurie Poulson, University of Washington
  • Gary Simons, SIL

• 5. The Classroom: Archiving, Ethics, Metadata

  • Heidi Johnson, Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, Chair
  • Sadie Williams, Eastern Michigan University, Liaison
  • Steve Conley, Ohio State University
  • Ferdinand de Haan, University of Arizona
  • Brian Fitzsimmons, University of Arizona
  • Ulrike Glavitsch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
  • Joseph Grimes, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Douglas Parks, Indiana University
  • Kevin Roddy, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Doug Whalen, Haskins Laboratories

• 6. The Classroom: Software, Stylesheets

  • Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne, Chair
  • Neil Salmond, Eastern Michigan University, Liaison
  • Ed Garrett, Eastern Michigan University
  • D. Terence Langendoen, University of Arizona
  • Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon
  • Mike Maxwell, Linguistic Data Consortium
  • Manuela Nosky, Microsoft
  • Lameen Souag, The Rosetta Project
  • Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm University

Working Groups 2003

The following working groups contributed to the information presented in the School of Best Practice. These working groups convened at the E-MELD Language Digitization Project Conference 2003: Digitizing and Annotating Texts and Field Recordings held in East Lansing, Michigan, July 11-13, 2003.

• Resource Creation

  • Verónica Grondona, Eastern Michigan University, Co-Chair
  • Doug Whalen, Haskins Laboratories, Co-Chair
  • Patrice Beddor, University of Michigan
  • Robert Vann, Western Michigan University
  • Randy LaPolla, City University of Hong Kong
  • Martha Ratliff, Wayne State University

• Resource Conversion

  • Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne, Co-Chair
  • Chilin Shih, Montclair State University, Co-Chair
  • Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan University
  • Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
  • Reinhard Hiss, Orientinstitut der DMG / VW-Foundation-DOBES
  • Will Lewis, University of California at Fresno
  • Barbara Need, University of Chicago
  • Steven Weinberger, George Mason University

• Resource Archiving

  • Gary Holton, Alaska Native Language Center, Co-Chair
  • Heidi Johnson, The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, Co-Chair
  • Nick Thieberger, PARADISEC
  • Gary Simons, SIL International
  • Wallace Hooper, Indiana University
  • Susan Hooyenga, University of Michigan

• Resource Discovery

  • Jeff Good, University of Pittsburgh, Co-Chair
  • Ulrike Kiefer, Förderverein für Jiddische Sprache und Kultur e.V., Co-Chair
  • Robert Neumann, Förderverein für Jiddische Sprache und Kultur e.V., Co-Chair
  • Anthony Aristar, Wayne State University
  • Hennie Brugman, Max Planck Institute - Nijmegen
  • Scott Farrar, University of Bremen
  • William Lewis, California State University - Fresno

• Resource Transcription and Annotation

  • Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute - Leipzig, Co-Chair
  • Edward Garrett, Eastern Michigan University, Co-Chair
  • Arienne Dwyer, University of Kansas, Co-Chair
  • Sebastian Drude, Freie Universität Berlin & Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
  • Brenda Farnell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • D. Terence Langendoen, University of Arizona
  • Philippe Martin, Université de Paris 7
  • Rob Vann, Western Michigan University
  • Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm University
  • Dietmar Zäfferer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

• Resource Presentation

  • Laura Buszard-Welcher, E-MELD post-doctoral fellow at Wayne State University
  • Dafydd Gibbon, University of Bielefeld, Co-Chair
  • Debbie Anderson, University of California, Berkeley, Co-Chair
  • Jean Andruski, Wayne State University
  • Philippe Martin, Université de Paris
  • Paul Kroeber, Indiana University
  • Shauna Sagmoen, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Consultants

• Gary Simons, SIL
• Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona
• Bartek Plichta, Michigan State University
• Debbie Anderson, University of California, Berkeley