Fall 2022 Language Documentation Webinar - Week 6: Metadata, File Management, and ELAN Basics

This week, Anujeema Saikia (JNU/ELP) led a workshop about some practical ways to take good care of your language recordings: metadata, file management, and ELAN. ⁠
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Metadata (data about data) is how we add information like: who's in this recording? When and where was it made? What language(s) are in it? And other crucial information for people who might use your recordings in the future! ⁠
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This also relates to file management - making sure you don't end up with a giant folder of un-organized files, having no idea what each recording contains or who's in it. ⁠
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Finally, Anujeema shared the very basics of ELAN - a free program for adding transcriptions, translations, and notes to your recordings. ELAN is very complicated (but very useful), so we'll be holding a dedicated ELAN training session in the spring Advanced webinar!

[amymacevilly]

Just some feedback for the next time through re: the ELAN section: focus more on talking about *what* you're doing in ELAN & *why*, not so much *how*. How it connects to the idea/purpose of the metadata. The workflow slide should perhaps come before the ELAN tutorial because it gives some context for it? I've used Audacity before for some class assignments. I very much appreciate seeing ELAN here because I've heard of it and now I begin to see what it is.

[amymacevilly]

Could the links for the further reading be shared here?