TLA News

June 18th, 2013 by flowit. A new version of Lamus (1.1.7.7) has been deployed, please see the list below for new features, changes and fixes: New features: - an option to keep the unlinked files when deleting the workspace - visual distinction between nodes of different types ... Read More

June 10th, 2013 by flowit. Stimulation by funding-agencies to open access to literature and to make outcomes of research more transparent should be embraced by scientists 04 June 2013 Open access to published papers in research has become a main goal of the world’s research-funding agencies, ... Read More

May 21st, 2013 by flowit. This is to announce the release of ELAN 4.6.0. Here is a short list of new features, changes and fixes. New features: - export to Fieldwork's FLEx format (.flextext) - time alignment and speaker information are retained - automatic or manual mapping of tier ... Read More

May 13th, 2013 by flowit. We are please to announce that there is a new and improved version 1.2 of KinOath Kinship Archiver available. This can be downloaded from the usual location: Some of the improvements in this version are: The table now has an ... Read More

May 3rd, 2013 by flowit. The 3rd ICLDC, held on the campus of the University of Hawai‘i in Mānoa earlier this year, was an important event and a great success. The conference continues to grow, with more than 120 oral, over 30 poster and ... Read More

April 17th, 2013 by flowit. The Language Archive (TLA) of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics recently had a presence at the ICLDC 2013 conference and one of the things presented was the new features in Arbil. For those of you who are not ... Read More

March 26th, 2013 by flowit. Since May 2009 MPI is an official partner of large-scale CLARIN pan-European project. This initiative is aimed at making already existing language resources and technologies available for the whole European Humanities and Social Sciences communities. For more detail the ... Read More

March 12th, 2013 by flowit. The work undertaken in the REPLIX project provided a solid basis for our participation within the EUDAT project Safe Replication service. Where REPLIX was aimed towards a replication solution for LAT archives, the EUDAT Safe Replication service is aiming ... Read More

February 14th, 2013 by Alexander König. Sebastian Drude has been appointed as the new head of the The Language Archive. He succeeds Peter Wittenburg, who is acting as TLA’s senior advisor from now on. The succession of Peter Wittenburg has been approved in December 2012 by ... Read More

February 11th, 2013 by Alexander König. by Dieter Van Uytvanck An ice cold morning, somewhere at the begin of January 2013. Sea gulls are circling around the IJ lake in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, in one of the snow-covered tall buildings nearby, people have gathered to discuss issues ... Read More

February 8th, 2013 by Alexander König. There is a lengthy article about TLA (in German) in the newest edition of the magazine of the Volkswagen Foundation Impulse. The magazine can be downloaded as a PDF on the website of the Volkswagen Foundation. The article mainly ... Read More

February 8th, 2013 by Twan Goosen. Today a new stable version of the metadata editor Arbil has been released. Arbil 2.4 has a number of new features as well as improvements and fixes over the previous minor release, Arbil 2.3. For more information about the ... Read More

February 7th, 2013 by Alexander König. The Language Archive has officially been accepted as a regular member of the ICSU (International Council of Science) World Data System. The World Data System supports ICSU’s mission and objectives, ensuring the long-term stewardship and provision of quality-assessed data and data services to ... Read More