The world’s indigenous languages and related cultural knowledge are under considerable threat of diminishing given the increasing
expansion of the use of standard languages, particularly through the wide-ranging pervasion of digital media and machine readable
editions of electronic resources. There is thus a pressing need to preserve and breathe life into traditional data resources containing both
valuable linguistic and cultural knowledge. In this paper we demonstrate on the example of an Austrian non-standard language resource
(DBÖ/dbo@ema), how the combined application of semantic modelling of cultural concepts and visual exploration tools are key in
unlocking the indigenous knowledge system, traditional world views and valuable cultural content contained within this rich resource.
The original data collection questionnaires serve as a pilot case study and initial access point to the entire collection. Set within a Digital
Humanities context, the collaborative methodological approach described here acts as a demonstrator for opening up traditional/nonstandard language resources for cultural content exploration through computing, ultimately giving access to, re-circulating and
preserving otherwise lost immaterial cultural heritage.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:
Conference
Refereed:
Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:
indigenous languages; cultural conceptualisation; data visualisation; semantic data modelling
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Funders:
Nationalstiftung of the Austrian Academy of Sciences under the funding scheme: Digitales kulturelles Erbe, No. DH2014/22. as part of the exploreAT! project, Science Foundation Ireland Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106) and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund.
ID Code:
23189
Deposited On:
15 Apr 2019 16:01 by
Thomas Murtagh
. Last Modified 18 Jan 2021 17:14