Preparing your Corpus for Archival Storage, LSA 2016 Workshop

We are grateful for the funding supplied by the National Science Foundation (BCS #1549994) which will make this special session of LSA 2016 possible. The session will take place on Thursday, January 7, 2016 before the start of the Annual LSA Meeting in Washington, DC.

Organizers

Malcah Yaeger-Dror, University of Arizona
Christopher Cieri, LDC

LDC offers a range of services that meet NSF’s requirements for data management plans and can be customized for a project’s particular needs.

Data Curation

The curation process is composed of four basic steps.

For research communities working with language resources, it is clear that the NSF DMP covers all raw data and annotations, where raw data refers to any observation of linguistic behavior whether recorded as text or audiovisual media, and annotation includes transcription, translation and any tagging or coding of language form and meaning.

All applicants for National Science Foundation funding must include a Data Management Plan (DMP) that describes how a proposal will implement sharing and dissemination of research data and results.

The NSF Data Sharing Policy reads: