Rescuing Legacy Data
- This paper discusses issues that arise in the transformation of electronic language data from outdated to modern, sustainable formats.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.
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| Author: | Thomas SchmidtORCiDGND, Jasmine Bennöhr |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-23160 |
| URL: | http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/1803/schmidtsmall.pdf;jsessionid=F7F234349A08D0D8F323455955EAAE6B?sequence=12 |
| ISSN: | 1934-5275 |
| Parent Title (English): | Language Documentation and Conservation |
| Publisher: | University of Hawaii Press |
| Place of publication: | Honolulu |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2008 |
| GND Keyword: | Datenformat; Datenkonvertierung; Gesprochene Sprache; Korpus <Linguistik> |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First Page: | 109 |
| Last Page: | 120 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Computerlinguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 3.0 Deutschland |