Fieldwork: Software: Sebastian Nordhoff

Fieldwork: Software
Fieldwork: Software
Sebastian Nordho
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Workshop on Fieldwork, Universiteit van Amsterdam Second Session: Software 4 May 2007
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Intro
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How to work with the wonderful digital data your devices produce What to do when and in which order How to do it
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From hardware storage to web publication

Fieldwork: Software Sebastian Nordho Intro Preliminaries Capturing Cutting Backup Acoustic analysis Transcribing Metadata Annotating Enhancing Publishing References
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The Problem
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Prevention of data loss

labeling work ow uncompressed better than compressed backup
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Accessibility and longevity

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choose open formats

open formats are documented and will be readable 20 years from now proprietary formats are not documented and only known to their inventors
Sebastian Nordho Intro Preliminaries Capturing Cutting Backup Acoustic analysis Transcribing Metadata Annotating Enhancing Publishing References
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid choose the simplest le format that suits your needs very often *txt is as good as *doc or *odt *csv is often as good as *xls or *ods, but easier to convert into other formats
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Open and closed formats

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meta051214.xls
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meta051214.csv
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File formats
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Good formats (open and documented)

you are sure that 100 years from now people will be able to make sense of your data sound: *wav *mp3 *flac *ogg video: *avi *mpeg text: *txt, *rtf, *odt (*html *xml) use unicode. Everywhere.
Bad formats (proprietary and non-documented)

There are good chances that no one will understand your data 100 years from now sounds: *wma, MiniDisc video: *wmv, *rm text: *doc
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Capturing
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Capturing is the process of transfering data from a storage medium to the computer For audio, solid state recorders make capturing obsolete One can just drag and drop the le from the storage medium on the computer le
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Capturing
Video capturing takes real time 1h of *avi video takes 15 GB storage space I use premiere, but there are surely cheaper alternatives Do not use Windows Movie Maker, it gives you *wmv (evil format)
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Exporting and conversion

Video les tend to be very large Export audio, which is easier to handle Convert *avi video to *mpeg with the Tsunami encoder. This takes about real time, depending on the processor *mpeg les are 20 times smaller than *avi les
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Exporting and conversion

*wav can be converted into *mp3 or *ogg quite fast reduces sound quality sound quality is only an issue for phoneticians
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Editing
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You are a linguist, not a lm director

You generally do not want to edit video but there is specialized software for that available which will overwhelm you with its functions
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Editing
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You are a linguist, not a rock star

You generally do not want to edit audio Editing audio is easier than editing video Some functions are trivial, e.g. normalize
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Cutting
1h of sound takes a loooong time to transcribe better have smaller les these must be logically self-contained transcriber has a very nice function to cut a large les into smaller ones write down master-le and time-code! You can also cut video cutting *avi and *wav is easy, cutting compressed formats liks *mp3 or *mpg is more dicult
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Backup
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Backup early, backup often Backup audio, video, transcriptions and your toolbox lexicon an empty DVD costs 1 EUR, a working hour of yours costs at least 10 EUR there are at least 10 working hours of yours contained in a DVD would you rather lose 1 EUR or 100 EUR ?
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Backup
decentralized storage to prevent data loss

Intro
I have a working copy on my laptop, a backup on an external drive As soon as new data reaches 4GB, I burn two DVDs. One stays with me, the other one goes to NL by mail that makes 4 copies altogether the question is not Am I paranoid? the question is Am I paranoid enough?
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Acoustic analysis
praat can do all kinds of acoustic analyses oscillogram, spectrogram, vowel formants, pitch extraction, beats too complex to treat here developed at the UvA, so you are at the source of knowledge
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Praat
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Transcribing
The program transcriber is used for, well, transcribing rst run: segment. Playback: continuous second run: transcribe. Playback: loop
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Filenames
Store information about how spoke when to whom about what where in which language do it consistently labeling of les
P YYMMDD GEN 99 K 061231 nar 02 Kandy 31.12.2006 narrative 2nd
more or less information also possible depending on aims very long names are not a good idea
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Metadata
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le types, le quality recording quality master source speakers

name age language prociencies contact details
how to store metadata

easy: spreadsheet (Excel, OpenOceCalc) more complex: IMDI-Editor most complex: database
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Annotating
The transcribed le is imported into Toolbox Toolbox has semi-automatic interlinear glossing The dictionary is build incrementally ambiguity resolution word formulas resulting le can be exported to a variety of formats
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Special characters
[ChW;m ] " Special characters like IPA can be inserted with KeyMan
for Windows. Keyman does not work well with transcriber transcriber lets you dene special keys but forgets them when it closes down #%%#
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Special characters
typing <E> for @ is much faster than typing <ctrl+shift+i><e><=><ctrl+shift+o> Search and replace afterwards be consistent
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Custom conversion
Well-dened opem formats can be converted into other well dened open formats :"Dutch": is easy to convert to <Language><Name>Dutch</Name></Language> meta051214.xls meta051214.csv
Fieldwork: Software Sebastian Nordho Intro Preliminaries Capturing Cutting Backup Acoustic analysis Transcribing Metadata Annotating
You might want to learn PERL Practical Extracting and Reporting Language
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Enhancing
import Toolbox into ELAN align with audio and video produce subtitles
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ELAN
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Publishing
GALOES is (will be) a grammar authoring platform that lets you create a web grammar with hyperlinks full text search multimedia support easy retrieval of source texts
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Software
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Capturing
Premiere: www.adobe.com/products/premiere there is lots of other, cheaper software, but I have not tested it and am unable to give any recommendations.
Editing
Audacity: audacity.sourceforge.net; Professional: Cubase, Soundforge
Converting video
Tsunami: www.tmpgenc.net
Cutting
transcriber: trans.sourceforge.net
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Transcribing
transcriber: trans.sourceforge.net
Annotating
Toolbox: www.sil.org/computing/toolbox
Conversion
Perl: www.perl.org/
Special Characters
Keyman: www.tavultesoft.com/keyman
Acoustic analysis
Praat: www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat
Enhancing
ELAN: www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan
Publishing
GALOES: http://84.16.245.50/slmwiki
Web sites
Best practices: www.e-meld.org/school Tools: www.lingweb.eva.mpg.de/eldtools/tools.htm Language Archive Newsletter: www.mpi.nl/LAN Link list: www.hrelp.org/languages/resources/orel
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Sebastian Nordho Intro Preliminaries Capturing Cutting Backup

Acoustic analysis Transcribing Metadata Annotating Enhancing Publishing References

From hardware storage to web publication

Prevention of data loss

labeling work ow uncompressed better than compressed backup

Accessibility and longevity

choose open formats

Open and closed formats

Capturing Cutting Backup Acoustic analysis Transcribing Metadata Annotating

Enhancing Publishing References

Good formats (open and documented)

Bad formats (proprietary and non-documented)

Exporting and conversion

Exporting and conversion

You are a linguist, not a lm director

Acoustic analysis Transcribing Metadata Annotating Enhancing Publishing References

You are a linguist, not a rock star

Acoustic analysis Transcribing Metadata Annotating Enhancing Publishing References

decentralized storage to prevent data loss

le types, le quality recording quality master source speakers

how to store metadata

Enhancing Publishing References

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