Documenting and Archiving Language and Culture in the Digital Age
International Summer School on "Documenting and Archiving Language and Culture in the Digital Age" from August 29 to September 8, 2023 in Batumi (Georgia)
Digital documentation and archiving of language and culture is a necessary prerequisite for cultural heritage research in the 21st century. Today, it is estimated that almost half of the 7,000 extant languages will disappear by 2150. According to The Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, languages are disappearing faster than animal or plant species. It is significant that the languages of Indigenous peoples are in danger of disappearing, most of which are still undocumented, which means that not only the language as a system but also the Intangible cultural heritageof the indigenous population will disappear along with these languages.
Due to the relevance of the topic, the Academy of Digital Humanities is holding an international summer school – "Documenting and Archiving Language and Culture in the Digital Age", financed by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, (Georgia) ID: MG-ISE-23-1017.
More information can be found here
Summer School Program:
August 30
10:00-11:00 - Opening of the international summer school
1. Theoretical block
30 August
- 11:00-11:45 - "Linguistic Research of Language Resources – a Change of Paradigm " (Manana Tandashvili)
- 11:45-12:00 - Coffee break
- 12:00-13:00 - "Georgian and International Digital Resources in Kartvelology" (ARMAZI, ECLinG, SSGG, GDC, GNC, TLA, DigiArchive) (Manana Tandashvili)
- 13:00-14:00 - Lunch
- 14:00-15:00 - "Documenting of Language and Culture in the Digital Age – Problems, Challenges, Perspectives" (Jost Gippert)
- 15:00-16:00 - "Technologies and Tools for Digital Decoding of Georgian Manuscripts" (Mariam Kamarauli)
1 September
- 10:00-11:30 - "Phonetic System of the Adjarian Dialect", "Adjarian in the Context of Southern Dialects of the Georgian Language" (Mamia Paghava)
- 11:30-11:45 - Coffee break
- 11:45-13:15 - "Georgian Mythology and Folklore", "Legends in Tao-Klarjeti, Samtskhe and Adjara" (Tina Shioshvili)
- 13:15-14:00 - Lunch
- 14:00-15:30 - "The Historical Past of Adjara in Georgian Literature", "Planning of Expedition" (Malkhaz Chokharadze)
- 15:30-16:00 - Coffee break
- 16:00-17:30 - "Ethnographic Mosaic of Adjara", "Methodology of Fieldwork" (Ruslan Baramidze)
2. Practical Block
2 September
- 10:00-11:30 - "Main Principles of Linguistic Processing of Linguistic Resources in the Digital Age" (Nana Tsetskhladze)
- 11:30-12:30 - "Modern Methods and Tools of Archiving Fieldwork Materials" (ELAN, EAF) (Rusudan Papiashvili)
- 12:30-13:00 - Coffee break
- 13:00-14:30 - "Batumi Linguocultural Digital Archive" (Mzia Khakhutaishvili)
- 14:30-15:30 - Lunch
- 15:30-17:00 - "Software Tools for Linguistic Processing of Language Resources" (Flex) (Mzia Khakhutaishvili)
3 September
- 10:00-11:30 - "Problems of Annotating Dialectological Material and English Translation in the Digital Archive“ (Khatuna Beridze)
- 11:30-12:00 - Coffee break
- 12:00-13:30 - "Annotation System in The Georgian National Corpus (GNC)“ (Mariam Kamarauli)
- 13:30-14:30 - Lunch
- 14:30-16:00 - Conceptualization of the Field Expedition in the Villages of Skhalta-Khikhani Valley
- 16:00-17:00 - Selection of Research Topics and Formation of Field Groups
4-7 September
- September 4-5 - Field Expedition to the Villages of Skhalta-Khikhani Valley
- September 6 - Laboratory Processing of the Fieldwork Materials
- September 7 - Team work - Preparation of Presentations
8 September
- 10:00-12:30 - Presenting and Reviewing Presentation Reports
- 12:30-13:00 - Coffee break
- 13:00-14:00 - Closing Ceremony