*Might be all that's known of a great many languages in a few centuries.
Dear Members,
Laura Welcher, Director of The Rosetta Project, will be giving a talk about The Rosetta Project and The Language Commons for Long Now Members and their guests on Thursday March 3, 02011 at the Long Now Museum. Below is a note from Laura about the presentation.
The Rosetta Project and The Language Commons
Behind The Rosetta Disk lies the largest open collection of information on the world's languages available on the Web. At this talk, you'll get a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of our digital collection, and a new distributed archive model we've devised to make the digital collection more open, flexible and resilient over time.
The Rosetta Project distributed archive model was recently adopted by The Language Commons, a new international consortium that seeks to provide open access to data sets (corpora) for all the world's languages. I'll discuss the role of The Rosetta Project in this new initiative, and our strategy to enable any language of the world to be used in the digital domain.
Doors open at 6:30, talk begins at 7:00.
Conversation and refreshments to follow.
We have limited space so RSVP here, use the password Rosetta.
Members can tune into the live audio stream and submit questions using the live chat.
We look forward to seeing you on March 3rd!
best,
Danielle
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Danielle Engelman
Director of Programs
The Long Now Foundation
www.longnow.org
[email protected]
ph. 415.561.6582 x1
fx. 415.561.6297
