Dear colleagues,
We need to talk about how minority languages are supported right now.
The Celtic Knot Conference 2017 is the first Wikipedia Language conference focusing on how
technology supports Celtic & Indigenous Languages.
It takes place at the University of Edinburgh Business School on Thursday 6th July 2017.
Booking closes 27 June 2017 so don't delay. All welcome.
Watch this 3 minute video<https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_nr4uufq9> if you’d like to
know more.
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.
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 on making the Uicipeid a hub for online Gaelic
knowledge<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>
- 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 The Kefalonian Dialect in Wiktionary and how
Wikitherapy addresses social equality in open-source language
projects<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017/Programme/CK125>.
* Duncan Brown - Llên
Natur<http://www.llennatur.com/Drupal7/llennatur/>r/>,
presenting on ‘Y BYWIADUR: the dictionary of life’.
* 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.
* Subhashish Panigrahi presenting on
Kathabhidhana<https://github.com/OdiaWikimedia/Kathabhidhana>na>, an open toolkit for
anyone to record their language in a human and machine readable form.
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.
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.
Very best regards,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk>
Subscribe to the mailing list:
wikimedia@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk<mailto:wikimedia@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk>
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<http://www.ed.ac.uk>
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Tel: 07719 330076
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk
Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia(a)mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
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
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.