International Summer School on "Documenting and Archiving Language and Culture in the Digital Age"
Digital documentation and archiving of language and culture is a necessary prerequisite for cultural heritage research in the 21st century. Today, it is estimated that almost half of the 7,000 extant languages will disappear by 2150. According to The Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, languages are disappearing faster than animal or plant species. It is significant that the languages of Indigenous peoples are in danger of disappearing, most of which are still undocumented, which means that not only the language as a system but also the Intangible cultural heritageof the indigenous population will disappear along with these languages.
Due to the relevance of the topic, the Academy of Digital Humanities is holding an international summer school – "Documenting and Archiving Language and Culture in the Digital Age".
Summer school announcement time: 1 July 2023
Deadline for submission of applications: 30 July
Confirmation of participation: 10 August
Duration of summer school: 10 days
Number of participants in the summer school: 20
Participation in summer school is free
The project was supported by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG)[Grant number: MG-ISE-23-1017)
Summer School Program
August 30
10:00-11:00 - Opening of the international summer school
I. Theoretical block
30 August
11:00-11:45 - "Linguistic Research of Language Resources – a Change of Paradigm " (Manana Tandashvili)
11:45-12:00 - Coffee break
12:00-13:00 - "Georgian and International Digital Resources in Kartvelology" (ARMAZI, ECLinG, SSGG, GDC, GNC, TLA, DigiArchive) (Manana Tandashvili)
13:00-14:00 - Lunch
14:00-15:00 - "Documenting of Language and Culture in the Digital Age – Problems, Challenges, Perspectives" (Jost Gippert)
15:00-16:00 - "Technologies and Tools for Digital Decoding of Georgian Manuscripts" (Mariam Kamarauli)
1 September
10:00-11:30 - "Phonetic System of the Adjarian Dialect", "Adjarian in the Context of Southern Dialects of the Georgian Language" (Mamia Paghava)
11:30-11:45 - Coffee break
11:45-13:15 - "Georgian Mythology and Folklore", "Legends in Tao-Klarjeti, Samtskhe and Adjara" (Tina Shioshvili)
13:15-14:00 - Lunch
14:00-15:30 - "The Historical Past of Adjara in Georgian Literature", "Planning of Expedition" (Malkhaz Chokharadze)
15:30-16:00 - Coffee break
16:00-17:30 - "Ethnographic Mosaic of Adjara", "Methodology of Fieldwork" (Ruslan Baramidze)
II. Practical Block
2 September
10:00-11:30 - "Main Principles of Linguistic Processing of Linguistic Resources in the Digital Age" (Nana Tsetskhladze)
11:30-12:30 - "Modern Methods and Tools of Archiving Fieldwork Materials" (ELAN, EAF) (Rusudan Papiashvili)
12:30-13:00 - Coffee break
13:00-14:30 - "Batumi Linguocultural Digital Archive" (Mzia Khakhutaishvili)
14:30-15:30 - Lunch
15:30-17:00 - "Software Tools for Linguistic Processing of Language Resources" (Flex) (Mzia Khakhutaishvili)
3 September
10:00-11:30 - "Problems of Annotating Dialectological Material and English Translation in the Digital Archive“ (Khatuna Beridze)
11:30-12:00 - Coffee break
12:00-13:30 - "Annotation System in The Georgian National Corpus (GNC)“ (Mariam Kamarauli)
13:30-14:30 - Lunch
14:30-16:00 - Conceptualization of the Field Expedition in the Villages of Skhalta-Khikhani Valley
16:00-17:00 - Selection of Research Topics and Formation of Field Groups
III. Expedition (recording and laboratory processing of resources)
4-7 September
September 4-5 - Field Expedition to the Villages of Skhalta-Khikhani Valley
September 6 - Laboratory Processing of the Fieldwork Materials
September 7 - Team work - Preparation of Presentations
8 September
10:00-12:30 - Presenting and Reviewing Presentation Reports
