June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig The LL-MAP Project

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig LL-MAP Project  3-year project  Funded by National Science Foundation  Organized with GISLI (U. of Stockholm)  Six other founding partners:  PARADISEC  Alaska Native Language Center  Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library  MPI-EVA  Arienne Dwyer of Kansas U  Randy LaPolla of La Trobe U

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Goals  Use GIS to combine language information with information from other sciences  Provide accurate information on language distribution, particularly for lesser-known languages  Stimulate new scientific insights via novel combinations of data  Provide an informational resource for students, educators, & the general public

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Immediate Objectives  Create core project:  Organize and serve the resources contributed by project partners  Develop standards and procedures to make the facility extensible to other projects and archives  Create space and tools for scholars to use project data and contribute more

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Content (1)  Information on topography, flora, fauna…  Language Information  a) Speaker distribution (what is traditionally considered language mapping)  b) Language facts (writing systems, number of speakers, etc.)  c) Language resources (grammars, lexicons, audio & video, etc. Here the map will simply be an interface to the metadata)

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Content (2)  Speaker distribution (a)  shp files, etc., or georeferenced text data made into shp files.  displayed as maps  Language Facts (b)  georeferenced text data  displayed as feature attributes (through “data browser’)  may be merely links—don’t want to duplicate efforts elsewhere  Language resources (c)  metadata (suggestion is to use OLAC as conduit)  map will be simply an interface to the metadata  metadata displayed as attributes through data browser

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Aggregation / Collection  For projects with web services  LL can provide an aggregation service based on OpenGIS protocols  Protocols allow LL-Map to choose layers from wms servers across the world and combine them with LL-MAP layers  For projects w/o web services, e.g., individual linguists  LL can provide online geodata collection facilities (producing image files)  Can establish migration path for text data

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Commitments  To share all unrestricted data with our partners  An argument for the web services model  Those projects with wms / wfs services could aggregate from the LL-MAP service in return  To saliently credit data sources  To provide assistance with data preparation during the project period  To maintain the site and software (including administrative software) after the end of the project

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Project Interface Project Interface  Website will have two main areas:  Public area  Scholar’s workbench  Login as  Guest scholar  Resident scholar  Website will also support administrative functions (login required)  Review area where Advisory Board can approve / disapprove maps and data for public display  Admin area where designated staff can accept / decline requests to become resident scholars

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Public Area Public Area  Users can  Combine layers to create new map displays  Perform queries & view table data  View / print maps  Download map images (raster data)

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Scholar’s Workbench Scholars can  Add their own data  Draw polygons & points  Add Attributes (text data)  Combine their layers with LL-MAP layers  View / print maps  Save their project information on the site  Guest scholars: 3 weeks  Resident scholars: 1 year  Make project available to other scholars (in Scholar’s Workshop)  Submit to Advisory Board for inclusion in public interface

June 28, 2007Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Interface  LINGUIST List Development server  Google Interface  ESRI interface for advanced work Please use Explorer 7!