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Pritam Chand narrates the Jackal and the Crow captions transcript

Pritam Chand narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Pritam describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. He tells the whole story, and then retells the story from the jackal’s perspective very briefly. Chhitkul-Rakchham is not Pritam's first language. The recording was made at his home in Rakchham village.
Date: March 6, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radha Devi and Yashpal Singh narrate The Family Story captions transcript

Radha Devi and Yashpal Singh narrate The Family Story

Radha Devi and Yashpal Singh complete set-up 2 of the Family Story Task, a picture-based stimulus task. They sit back to back in the first instance: Yashpal describes the content of pictures 5, 7, 9, 12 & 15, and Radha, based on his description, tells him how to arrange the five pictures so as to make a story. Afterwards, they tell the story. This set-up turned out to be more manageable for both participants than the initial 16-picture task. The recording was made in Radha's second home in Dhangdhangshi, located further down Rakchham village.
Date: April 9, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radha's life in Rakchham captions transcript

Radha's life in Rakchham

Radha Devi describes her life in Rakchham village, from childhood to present, noting the many difficulties she encountered. The recording was made at Shudha Bakhti's house in Rakchham village.
Date: November 21, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ram Kumar narrates the Jackal and the Crow captions transcript

Ram Kumar narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Ram describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. He tells the whole story, and then tells the story from the fox’s perspective. The recording was made at Amar Guest House in Chhitkul village.
Date: March 9, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ram Kumar's childhood in Chhitkul village captions transcript

Ram Kumar's childhood in Chhitkul village

Ram Kumar describes his childhood in Chhitkul village. The recording was made at the Government Senior Secondary School in Chhitkul village, where Kumar is a teacher. The school is located further down the village, on the river bank, on the road towards the military checkpoint.
Date: October 8, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ram Kumar's favourite place in Kinnaur captions transcript

Ram Kumar's favourite place in Kinnaur

Ram Kumar describes why Rakchham village is his favorite place in Kinnaur District.
Date: October 8, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ram Kumar's hopes for his children captions transcript

Ram Kumar's hopes for his children

Ram Kumar discusses his hopes for his children and the power of education. The recording was made at Chhitkul's Senior Secondary School, located further down the village, on the river bank, towards the path leading to the military checkpoint.
Date: October 8, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recitation of song lyrics about local deities captions transcript

Recitation of song lyrics about local deities

Shudha Bhakti and Narayan Bhakti recite the lyrics of a song about Bhagwati, one of the local deities. The recording was made next to the main temple entrance, in Rakchham village.
Date: March 6, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Flying Horse and Giant Monster captions transcript

Retelling of Flying Horse and Giant Monster

Video of Mahida Murad narrating the story "Tisr Haghur ke Phut" ('flying horse and a giant monster').
Date: 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roshan Laal Negi's experience in the Indian army captions transcript

Roshan Laal Negi's experience in the Indian army

Roshan Laal Negi describes his experience in the ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) and in the Indian Army. The ITBP is very much present in the area of Chhitkul village, notably due to recurring tensions with China. The recording was made in the living room of his house in Chhitkul village. His house is one of the most spacious houses at the back of the village.
Date: October 12, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seema Devi narrates the Jackal and the Crow captions transcript

Seema Devi narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Seema describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. She tells the whole story, and then tells the story from the jackal’s perspective. Before being recorded, Seema mentioned that she was familiar with the story. The recording was made at her home at the very beginning of Rakchham village.
Date: March 10, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shiv Bhakti's experience at school and afterwards captions transcript

Shiv Bhakti's experience at school and afterwards

Shiv Bhakti describes how good she was at school and and how she got her current job. The recording was made at her home in Chhitkul village.
Date: November 25, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shudha Bhakti's life in Rakchham village captions transcript

Shudha Bhakti's life in Rakchham village

Shudha Bhakti is telling about her life in Rakchham, from childhood to present. The recording was made at her home in Rakchham village.
Date: November 21, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Snowfall in Rakchham captions transcript

Snowfall in Rakchham

Bimla discusses snowfall in Rakchham over the past few years, saying that heavy snowfall was more frequent in earlier times. The recording was made at her and her husband's house in Rakchham, just after some heavy snowfall episodes when the village was still covered by thick snow. It was only a few days after the road from Reckong Peo to Sangla and Rakchham had reopened.
Date: March 7, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about current initiatives regarding South Asia at UNT captions transcript

Speech about current initiatives regarding South Asia at UNT

Video recording of remarks at the start of the afternoon session of the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Pia Wood, UNT Vice Provost and Dean of International Affairs welcomes attendees and discusses current initiatives regarding South Asia at the University of North Texas
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Wood, Pia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about data structures needed for computational linguistics and NLP captions transcript

Speech about data structures needed for computational linguistics and NLP

Video recording of a presentation providing an overview of the data structures needed for computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). This presentation was part of an afternoon session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Palmer, Alexis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about digital preservation collections in the UNT Digital Library captions transcript

Speech about digital preservation collections in the UNT Digital Library

Video of the opening remarks at the start of the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Cathy Hartman, the interim Dean of UNT Libraries, provides an overview of digital preservation collections in the UNT Digital Library.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about user-centered design for language archives captions transcript

Speech about user-centered design for language archives

Video recording of a presentation discussing user-centered design for language archives. This was presented during the afternoon session on "Archive and database usability" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Willis Oko, Christina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on archive and database architecture and usability captions transcript

Speech on archive and database architecture and usability

Video recording of a presentation discussing language documentation and description as part of a panel discussion on archive and database usability. This was presented during the afternoon session on "Archive and database usability" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Willis Oko, Christina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America captions transcript

Speech on Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

Video recording of a presentation discussing the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin American project. This presentation was part of an afternoon session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Kung, Susan Smythe & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on CoRSAL and its motivations captions transcript

Speech on CoRSAL and its motivations

Video recording of a presentation providing an introduction to the Computational Resources on South Asian Languages project, and the guiding motivations behind the research project. This presentation part of the opening afternoon session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on CoRSAL contributions captions transcript

Speech on CoRSAL contributions

Video recording of a presentation summarizing the individual project team members' contributions and how this CoRSAL project fits into the broader field of linguistics. This was part of the opening afternoon session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on data management plans for linguistics captions transcript

Speech on data management plans for linguistics

Video recording of a presentation discussing an example of a data management plan for a linguistics archiving project. This presentation was part of an afternoon session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: de Reuse, Willem
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on developing infrastructure for interoperating digital language archives captions transcript

Speech on developing infrastructure for interoperating digital language archives

Video recording of the second keynote session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. In this session, the presenter Gary F. Simons explores strategies of concerns and automation of services in developing an infrastructure for interoperation.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Simons, Gary F. & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library