PA-23817-01 | Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects | University of Texas, Austin | Creating a Web-based Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) | 9/1/2001 - 8/31/2003 | $250,000.00 | Joel | F. | Sherzer | | | | University of Texas, Austin | Austin | TX | 78712-0100 | USA | 2001 | Anthropology | Preservation/Access Projects | Preservation and Access | 250000 | 0 | 249998 | 0 | The creation of an online database of audio and textual materials related to the indigenous languages of Latin America, many of which are endangered or already extinct. |
PA-50182-03 | Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects | University of Texas, Austin | Creating a Web-based Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) | 9/1/2003 - 8/31/2005 | $310,557.00 | Joel | F. | Sherzer | | | | University of Texas, Austin | Austin | TX | 78712-0100 | USA | 2003 | Anthropology | Preservation/Access Projects | Preservation and Access | 310557 | 0 | 310557 | 0 | The creation of an online database of audio and textual materials related to the indigenous languages of Latin America, many of which are endangered or already extinct. |
PD-260978-18 | Preservation and Access: Documenting Endangered Languages - Preservation | University of Texas, Austin | Archiving Significant Collections of Endangered Languages: Two Multilingual Regions of Northwest South America | 9/1/2018 - 12/31/2021 | $227,365.00 | Patience | L. | Epps | Susan | | Smythe Kung | University of Texas, Austin | Austin | TX | 78712-0100 | USA | 2018 | | Documenting Endangered Languages - Preservation | Preservation and Access | 227365 | 0 | 223801.22 | 0 | The processing and digitization of eight collections
of archived documentation for endangered languages in Brazil, Colombia, and
Ecuador, which express and preserve knowledge of culture, history, and ecology in
this part of South America. Materials would be accessioned by the Archive of
Indigenous Languages of Latin America and made available to researchers and the
public.
This project will gather together, curate and digitize a set of eight significant collections of South American indigenous languages, the results of decades of research by senior scholars; the collections will be archived at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. These materials constitute an important resource for further linguistic, ethnographic, and ethnomusical research, and are of high value to community members and scholars. They include six legacy collections from the Upper Rio Negro region of the northwest Amazon (Brazil and Colombia), and two collections focused on Ecuadorian Kichwa, most notably the Ca'ar variety. All of the languages concerned are endangered or vulnerable to varying degrees, and the collections are heavily focused on threatened forms of discourse, such as ritual speech and song. Of the Upper Rio Negro set, the collections of Elsa Gomez-Imbert, Stephen Hugh- Jones, and Arthur P. Sorensen, Jr. include the East Tukanoan languages Bar' (bao), Barasana (bsn), Eduria (bsn, widely agreed to be distinct from Barasana), Karapana (cbc), Tatuyo (tav), Makuna (myy), and Tukano (tuo). The collections of Howard Reid and Renato Athias are focused on Hup (jup, Naduhupan), while Reid's collection also contains a few materials from two languages of the wider region, Nukak (mbr, Kakua-Nukakan) and Hot' (yua, isolate). Robin Wright's collection involves Baniwa (bwi, Arawakan). Of the Ecuadorian Kichwa set, Judy Blankenship's and Allison Adrian's collections are both focused on Ca'ar Highland Kichwa (qxr, Quechuan), while Adrian's also includes some material from Loja Highland Kichwa (qvj, Quechua). |
PD-266994-19 | Preservation and Access: Documenting Endangered Languages - Preservation | University of Texas, Austin | Documentation of Nadeb (mbj), a Naduhup language of Brazil | 9/1/2019 - 8/31/2025 | $323,717.00 | Patience | L. | Epps | | | | University of Texas, Austin | Austin | TX | 78712-0100 | USA | 2019 | | Documenting Endangered Languages - Preservation | Preservation and Access | 323717 | 0 | 323717 | 0 | The documentation and description of Nadeb, an
endangered language spoken in northwest Brazil.
The project would produce an annotated collection of digital recordings
in audio and video, a grammatical description, lexicon, and collection of
texts, in collaboration with the Nadeb community, as well as a comprehensive
reference grammar, a dictionary (Nadeb-English-Portuguese), and a set of pedagogical
materials for community use.
This project will undertake the documentation
and description of Nadeb, a member of the small Naduhup family (formerly known
as Maku), spoken in northwest Brazil. The principal goals are to produce an
annotated collection of digital recordings in audio and video, a grammatical
description, lexicon, and collection of texts, in collaboration with the Nadeb
community. Documentation will focus on natural discourse and will span a range
of genres, with particular emphases on traditional verbal art forms involving
song, narrative, and incantation; conversation; and knowledge concerning Nadeb
traditional territory. Secondary outcomes will consist of a comprehensive reference
grammar, a dictionary (Nadeb-English-Portuguese), and a set of pedagogical
materials for community use. Materials will be archived in the Archive of
Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas at Austin. |
PD-50003-06 | Preservation and Access: Documenting Endangered Languages - Preservation | University of Texas, Austin | Archiving Significant Collections of Endangered Language Resources | 9/1/2006 - 8/31/2010 | $348,000.00 | Joel | F. | Sherzer | Heidi | | Johnson | University of Texas, Austin | Austin | TX | 78712-0100 | USA | 2006 | Linguistics | Documenting Endangered Languages - Preservation | Preservation and Access | 348000 | 0 | 348000 | 0 | Digital archiving of Mexican, Central, and South American linguistic materials to be made accessible by The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA).
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a Web-based repository of multimedia materials that are digitize in accordance with international standards and are made accessible to scholars and speaker communities worldwide. In collaboration with the eight linguists who have collected materials over the last 40 years, the project staff would digitize and preserve recordings and written materials that document languages of Costa Rica, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico. |
PD-50011-09 | Preservation and Access: Documenting Endangered Languages - Preservation | University of Texas, Austin | Archiving Significant Collections of Latin American Endangered Language Resources II | 9/1/2009 - 2/28/2012 | $276,985.00 | Joel | F. | Sherzer | | | | University of Texas, Austin | Austin | TX | 78712-0100 | USA | 2009 | Linguistics | Documenting Endangered Languages - Preservation | Preservation and Access | 276985 | 0 | 276985 | 0 | Digital archiving of endangered Mexican and South American linguistic materials to be made accessible by the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a digital repository of multimedia materials. A central part of AILLA's mission is to locate valuable language resources, digitize and catalog them in accordance with international standards, house them in a secure repository, and make them accessible to indigenous people, researchers, and interested laypersons worldwide. The two-year Archiving Significant Collections II (ASC-II) project will perform this service for the following six collections: 1) Achuar and Shuar [Ecuador and Peru]; 2) Quichua and Quechua [Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru]; 3) Tzotzil and other Mayan languages [Mexico]; 4) Pastaza Quechua [Ecuador]; 5) Huasteca Nahua [Mexico]; and 6) Tucano [Brazil]. |
PW-259116-18 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University of Texas, Austin | Transcribing AILLA: Increasing Collection Access and Reusability through Crowdsourced Transcription | 10/1/2018 - 9/30/2020 | $42,000.00 | Virginia | Garrard | Burnett | | | | University of Texas, Austin | Austin | TX | 78712-0100 | USA | 2018 | Latin American Languages | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 42000 | 0 | 40236.35 | 0 | A
Foundations pilot project to transcribe materials in Mixtec, a pre-Columbian language
spoken in south-central Mexico, and that are housed at the Archive of the Indigenous
Languages of Latin America. Working with
undergraduate linguistics students and Mixtec community members who have
migrated to southern California, the applicant would undertake transcription of
hand-written documents and audio recordings to make them searchable, thereby improving
access and reuse.
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) has thousands of images of handwritten manuscripts whose text cannot be searched, making them difficult for users to discover and access. Since many of these documents are transcriptions or translations of recordings in AILLA's collections, improving access to a manuscript increases access to other media. This project pilots a low-cost process to improve access to resources in AILLA's collections by crowdsourcing the transcription of select handwritten documents written in Mixtec languages using open-source software. It will be implemented in an undergraduate linguistics course at UT, for which lesson plans will be developed, and within a Mixtec speech community in California, in an effort to develop a community of practice. More broadly, investigators will disseminate findings among other digital archives so they may adapt the approach to any language. |
ZPA-283989-22 | Agency-wide Projects: ARP-Organizations (Preservation-related) | University of Texas, Austin | Sustainable curation, preservation and online access for multilingual cultural heritage collections at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America | 1/1/2022 - 8/31/2022 | $60,306.00 | Patience | L. | Epps | Susan | | Smythe Kung | University of Texas, Austin | Austin | TX | 78712-0100 | USA | 2021 | Latin American Languages | ARP-Organizations (Preservation-related) | Agency-wide Projects | 60306 | 0 | 33213.72 | 0 | The retention of one staff position and one student technician to sustain the operations of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.
The University of Texas at Austin's Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) seeks American Rescue Plan: Humanities Organizations funding to sustain operations and support for the successful completion of its existing NEH grant PD-260978-18 "Archiving Significant Collections of Endangered Languages: Two Multilingual Regions of Northwestern South America." This project will digitize, curate, and archive eight significant collections of multilingual, multimedia materials that document Indigenous languages and cultures from Highland Ecuador and the Upper Rio Negro region of northwest Brazil and eastern Colombia. As the university, the country, and the entire world begin the difficult post-pandemic economic recovery, ARP support will ensure AILLA's continued growth, development, long-term preservation, accessibility, and discoverability by safeguarding critical staff positions, which are at risk of being lost. |