Data Technicality and Data Management in Field Language Documentation
Samhati Soor · 2019
In Linguistic Field, different linguistic units of a particular language are collected for linguistic analysis of that language. Some ethnological data are also accumulated to know the socio-economic and cultural pattern of the specific language community. Assembled data which are captured via various electronic equipments like still camera, sound recorder or video came are of different types and different formats. They are stored by using specific digital encoding techniques, data compression techniques etc. The data also have a number of metadata associated with it. Some of the metadata are in-built remaining within the data. Some metadata are needed to collected or created at the time of data collection and data publishing. At the time of metadata description of linguistic data, one particular metadata schema or metadata standard should be followed. In this paper, different concepts and functionalities of storing, retrieving, managing and preserving linguistic data and its significance are explained in detail.