As the Thunders arrive back to Standing Rock, we reflect on the year that has passed. All across Očhéthi Šakówiŋ territory, many Elders were lost, including fluent Dakota/Lakota speakers. We treasure and remember each and every one of them. Highlighted below are ten whose voices are featured in one or more the collections comprising our …
Content Viewers and You
Much of what we do with the Wóoyake Project goes beyond the work needed to format the trove of historical data we want to deliver to our users. It is equally important for us to consider exactly how this information is consumed on the platform. After all, today’s digital world is one where huge amounts …
Internship experience
Kalace interned for the Wóoyake Project as part of a degree in Information Technology at Sitting Bull College, working mostly on the Wisdom of the Elders Collection and the Joseph White Bull Collection. Before the semester was up, we asked Kalace to reflect on the experience of working so intimately with digital heritage... History is …
Bringing File Types Together
When Elliot approached me with the idea of bringing together all the different file types that we are using - Transkribus, FLEx, ELAN - I found the prospect to be a little daunting. A single file type that can accurately play the role of displaying by context different kinds of media content, whether it's text-only, …
Transliteration Conventions
Here are some guidelines that Quanah put together to help us transliterate text documents. These were put together mostly with the newspaper collections in mind. Individual sounds: The general idea is that we are preserving the dialect of the original as closely as possible, but rewritten in the Standard Orthography. That requires a good awareness …
Using SIL FLEx as a Team
Below are the steps our team is using to collaborate on work within Fieldworks Language Explorer across multiple devices. (If you're setting up a workflow for your own team, you might want to read up on all the functionality of FLEx's Send/Receive feature: https://software.sil.org/fieldworks/support/using-sendreceive/) Create an account at languagedepot.org and let me know when you've …
International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries and Museums
Just got an email through announcing that ATALM's 2020 conference will be in DC! I got the to attend this year's conference just a couple of months ago and I would happily call it the best conference I've ever been to. It was a Wednesday/Thursday conference though the Tuesday also offered a schedule of full-day …
Continue reading International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries and Museums
Language Researcher Software
As a Language Researcher on this project you’ll probably need a couple different softwares. Check your assignments to see which ones you’ll need. Dropbox: create an account at https://dropbox.com/register and we will share you work folder with youELAN: download from https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/Transkribus: create an account and download from https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/FromThePage: create an account and we’ll add you …
Comparison of Content Management Systems
An important step in this project is selecting a Content Management System (CMS) on which to build our website. A CMS is a tool that allows you to organize, manage, and publish online content without having to build from scratch. A famous example is WordPress (the platform we use to write this blog) and there …
Ideas for a digital language archive
https://youtu.be/D9KRXbJFJZc We've started thinking about innovative ways for learners to interact online with video, audio, and written recordings we've found in the language. Check out this video to see what a digital archive could look like. If you're a D/Lakota language learner, leave a comment. What would you find useful?
Wóoyake Project Blog 