Thanks Ewan for the message!
Please note that a minor mistake has been made in the participants' info
list regarding my presentation: the topic mentioned is the title of a paper
I co-authored with a fellow Wikipedian two years ago, and which I had
shared with the Celtic Knot committee to offer a "gist" of what I wanted to
present. The caption of my photo on the Celtic Knot website much better
reflects what I will be presenting in Edinburgh, i.e. the Kefalonian
Dialect in Wiktionary
<https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1:%CE%9A%CE%B5%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF_%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%AF%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1>
and how Wikitherapy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikitherapy>
addresses social equality in open-source language projects
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/June_2016/Argostoli_Evening_School_students_and_a_Wikitherapy_participant_turn_Wiktionary_project_into_Android_app>
.
Will do my best to disseminate to my network, looking forward to an
exciting event!
All the best,
Mina Theofilatou (User:Saintfevrier)
Kefalonia, Greece
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:04 PM, MCANDREW Ewan <Ewan.McAndrew(a)ed.ac.uk>
wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Please disseminate this open invitation to a University of Edinburgh and
Wikimedia UK conference to interested colleagues as appropriate.
How can technology support language communities?
Join us at the Celtic Knot conference<https://wikimedia.
org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> taking place Thursday 6 July
2017 at the University of Edinburgh Business School to find out. Our
programme is now live!
Keynote speakers
* Professor Antonella
Sorace<https://wikimedia.orgorg.
uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Professor of
Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh<
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/%7Eantonell/> and founding director of
Bilingualism Matters<http://www.bilingualism-matters.org.uk/> will be
speaking on ‘Bilingualism in minority languages: a resource and an
opportunity’.
* Jason Evans<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_
Conference_2017#Keynotes> - Wikimedian in Residence at the National
Library of Wales<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/
Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_the_National_Library_of_Wales> will discuss
his strategy for working with Wikimedia UK and the Welsh Government to
develop the Welsh Wicipedia using a combination of community engagement,
data manipulation and the implementation of Open Access policies.
Confirmed speakers also include:
* Susan Ross – Gaelic Wikipedian in Residence<https://blog.
wikimedia.org.uk/2017/01/wikimedia-uk-and-national-
library-of-scotland-announce-new-gaelic-post/> at the National Library of
Scotland.<http://www.nls.uk/news/archive/2017/01/gaelic-wikipedian-begins>
* Dr. Sharon Arbuthnot<http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/sharon-
arbuthnot%28519b4b40-d075-4b6d-9199-15a05d214165%29.html> - Research
Fellow, Queen's University, Belfast. Presenting on the AHRC-funded eDIL
project<http://www.dil.ie/> (Irish Language dictionary) on Wednesday 5th
July.
* Gareth Morlais – the Welsh Language Unit, Welsh Government. Gareth
will speak about how mapping how much importance major companies (Google,
Twitter, Apple) attach to creative activity on Wikipedia led to the Welsh
Government helping to fund two Welsh-language Wikipedia initiatives.
* Delyth Prys – Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor
University, will speak on Welsh/Celtic speech technology and why
text-to-speech and speech recognition are becoming increasingly important
in our digital world.
* Àlex Hinojo<http://www.alexhinojo.cat/en/bio/> – Executive
Director, Amical
Wikimedia<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_
Wikimedia> on the Catalan language project.
* Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga – Developing the Basque Wikipedia: From
corpus expansion to outreach.
* Astrid Carlsen – Executive Director, Wikimedia Norge speaking on
Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and building a project to revitalize
the Northern Sami Wikipedia.
* Robin Owain – Wales Manager, Wikimedia UK, speaking on recent
developments supporting the Welsh language community.
* Mina Theofilatou presenting on ‘Adult Learners from the Ionian
Islands of Corfu and Kefalonia sharing Cultural Heritage on Wikimedia
Commons and Wiktionary’.
* Duncan Brown - Llên Natur<http://www.llennatur.
com/Drupal7/llennatur/>, presenting on ‘Y BYWIADUR: the dictionary of
life’.
* Rémy Gerbet - Wikimedia France; presenting on the Lingua Libre
project<https://www.lingualibre.fr/> for massive open audio recording.
* Käbi Suvi - Wikimedia Estonia on the ‘Miljon+’ project as part of
Estonia’s 100th anniversary.
* Ilario Valdelli - Wikimedia Switzerland, speaking on the Digital
Library in Romansch and the new initiatives to map the archeological sites
connected with Celtic culture in the Alps.
The main objective for Celtic Knot 2017 is the coming together of
practitioners in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds of
those working to support language communities into a 'knot' and leading
into action. We welcome diverse attendees ranging from Wikimedians,
linguists, educators, researchers, information professionals, media
professionals, translators, learning technologists and more coming together
to share good practice and find fruitful new collaborations to support
language communities as a result of the event.
To find out more about the conference themes and how to book your place to
join us then please visit the Celtic Knot<https://wikimedia.org.uk/
wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017> page. To assist with seeing areas of
commonality and links between your work and the Wikimedia projects<
http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the-links-at-the-
celtic-knot-wikipedia-language-conference/> you can click here<
http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/2017/03/10/seeing-the-
links-at-the-celtic-knot-wikipedia-language-conference/>.
It promises to be a great event – including a panel on the Politics of
Language Online, excellent papers, workshops and discussion spaces. Please
feel free to forward this event to interested colleagues in your network.
If you would like to learn more then please contact me direct at
ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk>.
Very best regards,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk
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