Hello,
This looks interesting. I might have liked to attend (or even contribute?) if I had had
sufficient advance notice.
Good luck,
Alan
Alan R. King
Email: alanrking(a)yahoo.com
Personal website alanrking.info
Nawat and Lenca language resources and indigenous language recovery:
http://tushik.org/
From: MCANDREW Ewan <Ewan.McAndrew(a)ed.ac.uk>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 3:30 PM
Subject: [Languages] Join us for the Celtic and Indigenous Languages Conference - Booking
closes 27 June
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{margin-bottom:0cm;}#yiv8523667628 ul {margin-bottom:0cm;}-->Dear colleagues, How can
technology support language communities? Join us at theCeltic Knot: Wikipedia Language
conference taking place Thursday 6 July 2017 at the University of Edinburgh Business
School to find out.Booking closes 27 June so don’t delay! The main objective for Celtic
Knot 2017 is the coming together of those working to support Celtic and Indigenous
Languages in the same room at same time; strengthening the bonds 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. New
satellite event:Introduction to Wikidata and the Wikidata Query Service – this event is
now scheduled 11am to 1pm on Tuesday 4 July presented byLéa Lacroix (Project Manager
Community Communication for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland).Léa will also be joining us
at the Celtic Knot as part of the Wikidata workshop on 6 July too. Just one of themany
great speakers andpresentations covering Catalan Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Scots Gaelic
Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia and more at the Celtic Knot:
Keynote speakers
- Professor Antonella Sorace -Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University
of Edinburgh and founding director ofBilingualism Matters will be speaking on‘Bilingualism
in minority languages: a resource and an opportunity’.
- Jason Evans -Wikimedian 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 at the National Library of Scotland.
- Dr. Sharon Arbuthnot - Research Fellow, Queen's University, Belfast. Presenting
on the AHRC-fundedeDIL project (Irish Language dictionary) on Wednesday 5 th 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 – Executive Director,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 ‘The Kefalonian Dialect in Wiktionary and how
Wikitherapy addresses social equality in open-source language projects’.
- Duncan Brown - Llên Natur, presenting on‘Y BYWIADUR: the dictionary of life’.
- Rémy Gerbet - Wikimedia France; presenting on the Lingua Libre project for massive
open audio recording.
- Käbi Suvi - Wikimedia Estonia on the ‘Miljon+’ project as part of Estonia’s 100 th
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.
- Wikipedia’s new Content Translation tool and how it has been successfully employed in
Higher Education to share knowledge between different language Wikipedias and give
students meaningful published practice – Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence.
It promises to be a great event – including a panel on thePolitics 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(a)ed.ac.uk. Very best regards, Ewan 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
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