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.org.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/>r/>,
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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My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday.
Wikipedia Project Page for the residency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street,
Edinburgh, EH3 9DR.
www.ed.ac.uk
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