Workflow Management for Linguistic session from some of Becky’s previous Field Methods materials
The Workflow Management for Linguists
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Author Archives: Hugh Paterson III
The Power of Interns
Today I was reading about how an intern at FaceBook created their new Mobile ad interface. For those of you who watch the business news, FaceBook being able to monetize their mobile market has been a big concern for their investors. I think this really speaks to several things in the corporate culture at Facebook:
- They are willing to listen to the ideas of young, fresh people.
- They are willing to work with temporary staff.
- They are willing to mentor.
- They are willing trust (things like project goals and budding technologies).
Each of these things listed above are social issues. They are social issues within the context of the corporate environment. Additionally, the company has to be contentious of them to the point that they implement HR processes to allow these sorts of things to happen. In this respect these four things have to be something that is fought for (in order to maintain them as part of the corporate culture). I currently look at the NGO I work for and wonder, What it would take to have harness the power of Interns? We don’t currently have the corporate culture to facilitate interns, but why is that? Is our walled garden so well constructed with bricks from the baby-boomer generation that we forget the power which comes when we can run with young people? For businesses, even for NGOs, if we don’t fight for relevance within the social networks of the up-coming generation then we will marginalize our significance.
Modular Courses for Linguistics
In 2008 I was contacted by a professor who wanted to be able to share various linguistics exercises with fellow professors. He asked for a website to be build so that if a professor were to translate the directions of these exercises that they could in turn put these translated versions back into the “set of exercises”. Continue reading
Email Befuddling
So, the common concern is:
If I put my email address "out there" on the web that spammers will get it and start sending me spam messages.
Well, that is a valid concern. There are scripts and crawlers which go around and look for email addresses. (And lets suppose that they also do not check for a robots.txt file.) These generally work by focusing on the syntax of the email addresses using Regular Expressions or finding the mailto: term in the HTML code. There are some things which can be done to prevent this from happening.
- The best way is to use contact forms.
- The second best way is to use JavaScript hiding. (Go here to read how to do this if you are running your own HTML pages, or here if you want a site which will create a JavaScript for you.)
- The third best way is to use HTML characters for your email addresses.
- One way that I severely dislike is to spell out the email address or phone number like (you see a lot of this on sites like craigslist and after a few spam text messages one understands why it is done):
seven-one-sevenor hughdotpatersonat.
The Data Management Space for Linguists
This week I have been outlining the types of data that linguists need to be able to use and relate to each other as they do Language Documentation and Linguistic Research. I try to express these things graphically and then also express where some of the leading tools which SIL International is offering sit in the problem space.
The Data Management Space for linguists with SIL software.
Apple Crisp
I wrote my mom this morning asking for an Apple Crisp recipe. She sent me one. Becky and I made Apple Crisp tonight from the apples I picked the other day.
Chopping Apples.
Visual Metadata
Today I gave Becky her birthday gift. I got her a guitar stand and a new hat. The perfect combo to help someone move into a new place, a new level of interest in an old skill and a new look/persona to go with the music.
Guitar stand and Hat.
File Cabinet
Vaux’s Swifts
Behind our house in Eugene is an older building with a large tower. The kind of tower where Vaux’s Swifts nest at night.
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Ever look for something on Craigslist and get hundreds of results – look at a few and decide that you don’t want a few and then type in something else and get the same search results? Obviously you were looking for something else… what is needed is a check box to say that you are disinterested in a particular listing. (Or that a listing was no-longer for sale, but the owner “forgot” to remove the listing.) Craigslist as it currently is. (Incase you forgot.) Needed Check Box for better results.New Feature for Craigslist
