1. Jan 9, 2004 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA The School of Best Practice How Standards can Matter Anthony Aristar, Wayne State University

2. Jan 9, 2004 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA Diverse Data, diverse formats? Diverse data is a good thing; diverse formats are not Recommendations about Best Practice need to be made about formats and practices They need to be set in conjunction with field linguists They need to be based upon consensus

3. Jan 9, 2004 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA How to Reach Consensus E-MELD Workshops: three held so far (Santa Barbara 2001, Ypsilanti 2002, East Lansing 2003) Field Linguists and Language Engineers brought together Recommendations made by working- groups in each area Recommendations made available to the discipline for comment

4. Jan 9, 2004 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA Structure of the School Entrance Hall Case Studies Exhibits Classroom Reading Room Work Room Tool Room Search

5. Jan 9, 2004 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA Entrance Hall What is Best Practice? Why Best Practice? Navigate this site Glossary Credits Help

6. Jan 9, 2004 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA Navigate this Site Navigation by case studiescase studies  From Notecards to the Web: Biao Min From Notecards to the Web: Biao Min  Shoebox Legacy Data: Mocoví Shoebox Legacy Data: Mocoví  Filemaker Legacy Data: Potawatomi Filemaker Legacy Data: Potawatomi

7. Jan 9, 2004 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA Exhibit Hall Biao Min Mocoví Potawatomi Each Language has:  About the language  Phonology  Grammar  Lexicon  Resources  Data Case Study

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10. Jan 9, 2004 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA Workroom Metadata Creation Terminology Mapping Data Analysis  FIELD (Field Input Environment for Linguistic Data)  Language Profile  Language Keyboard  Customized Interface  Managing Data  Lexicon Creation

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14. Jan 9, 2004 Symposium on Best Practice LSA, Boston, MA Office Hours Friday, 9 January 2:00 - 3:00 PM Saturday, 10 January 2:00 - 3:00 PM Two field linguists will explain their data:  Verónica Grondona (Mocoví)  Laura Buszard Welcher (Potawatomi)