Digital archives: essential elements in the workflow for endangered languages documentation
David M. Nathan · SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London) · 2008
ELAR joins a number of archives with similar goals and also concerned with endangered languages, such as DoBeS (www.mpi.nl/DOBES), AILLA (www.ailla.utexas.org) and PARADISEC (www.paradisec.org.au). However, as part of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project (HRELP), ELAR is unique because it works in close collaboration with the two other HRELP programmes – the Academic Programme (ELAP), and the Documentation Programme (ELDP). ELDP is an endangered languages field research funding agency that awards about US$2 million per year across the world, and it is through its collaboration with ELDP that ELAR’s activities reach out in time and space.