Workshops
Workshop to M6 (27/28 February 2020)
On 27/28 February 2020 at the sub-project’s location in Hamburg, the first project-internal workshop took place. At the workshop the results of the first project phase up to the defined milestone M6 were presented in the form of seven talks and discussed by the participants in plenary, consisting of the sub-project’s leaders and research associates. The presentations entitled "Resource Types, Standards and Relevant Formats in QUEST and Beyond" and "The QUEST for a common metadata core: formats, data categories and mappings", related to the work packages 1.1. “Data Technology Standards”, supervised by Hanna Hedeland of the sub-project in Mannheim, and 1.2. “Quality Standards for Metadata” (Gabriele Schwiertz & Felix Rau, SP Cologne), introduced the inventory of relevant resource types and semantics and data models of metadata formats established in the centres and disciplines. The inventory of relevant resource types and their metadata was evaluated in consideration of the characteristics resulting from the context of compilation as well as the characteristics regarding the types of data and technical standards of data.
The presentations from Kilu von Prince (WP 2.1. “Curation Criteria for Language Typology Secondary Use”), Elena Arestau (WP 2.2. “Curation Criteria for Linguistic Secondary Use of Multilingual Data”), and Amy Isard (WP 2.3. “Curation Criteria for Multimodal Data”) of the work package 2, which addresses the definition of discipline-specific curation criteria, concentrate on the preliminary results from the screening of different types of corpora (language documentation, language typology, sign language, multilingualism research). The project members analyzed similarities and differences in the previous constitution of data regarding transcription, translation and annotation. By means of concrete secondary use scenarios for “ethnography”, “language community” and “oral history” Hanna Hedeland and Sebastian Nordhoff (WP 2.4.) showed possibilities of secondary uses of databases in a non-scientific context and stated first requirements for the curation of sensible and promising resources for a potential secondary use in the GLAM-sector. The focus of Timofey Arkhangelskiy’s talk (WP 3 “Quality Assurance Measures”), which concluded the two-day workshop, was on the presentation of the web-based interfaces for the online questionnaire and the automatic quality checks, which are to be implanted as part of the evaluation system in the course of the project.