Rescuing Legacy Data

dc.contributor.author	Schmidt, Thomas
dc.contributor.author	Bennöhr, Jasmine
dc.date.accessioned	2008-06-27T22:46:51Z
dc.date.available	2008-06-27T22:46:51Z
dc.date.issued	2008-06
dc.description.abstract	This paper discusses issues that arise in the transformation of electronic language data from outdated to modern, sustainable formats. We first describe the problem and then present four different cases in which corpora of spoken language were converted from legacy formats to an XML-based representation. For each of the four cases, we describe the conversion workflow and discuss the difficulties that we had to overcome. Based on this experience, we formulate some more general observations about transforming legacy data and conclude with a set of best practice recommendations for a more sustainable handling of language corpora.
dc.description.sponsorship	National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.identifier.citation	Schmidt, Thomas and Jasmine Bennöhr. 2008. Rescuing Legacy Data. Language Documentation & Conservation 2(1):109–129.
dc.identifier.issn	1934-5275
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1803
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	University of Hawai'i Press
dc.subject	electronic language data
dc.subject	XML
dc.subject	legacy data
dc.subject	corpus
dc.title	Rescuing Legacy Data
dc.type	Article
dc.type.dcmi	Text
prism.endingpage	129
prism.number	1
prism.publicationname	Language Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage	109
prism.volume	2

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