Keynote for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This keynote presentation explores the strategies of separation of concerns and automation of services in developing an infrastructure for interoperation that can break serious bottlenecks in scaling up the submission of new materials and the use of already archived materials.

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses existing resources and further questions to be asked, with a particular emphasis on Pakistani languages.

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation looks as at previous research in the Tibetan linguistic area, future research areas, and issues to be considered in archiving practices.

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation looks at resources for localization and natural language processing.

Photograph of Alexis Palmer speaking to attendees from behind a podium, near a brick wall. Members of the audience are visible, seated at rectangular tables arranged in a semi-circle facing the speaker and covered in green UNT tablecloths. This is during the presentation "A View from CL/NLP" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.

Photograph of Gary F. Simons standing behind a podium and holding a sheaf of papers while preparing for his presentation. A portion of one of his slides is visible on a projector screen to his left, against a brick wall. This is during the presentation "Developing infrastructure for interoperating digital language archives" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.

Photograph of attendees listening to Christina Wasson lead a project discussion during the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Wasson is standing behind a podium in the far left side of the image. The audience is seated in rows of chairs and around three rectangular tables which are all arranged in in a semi-circle facing the speaker; the tables are covered in green tablecloths with the UNT Department of Linguistics logo on them.

Photograph of Christina Wasson standing behind a podium (at left) while leading a project discussion during the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Three rectangular tables covered in green UNT tablecloths are arranged in a semi-circle facing the front of the room; audience members are seated around the table and in additional rows of chairs behind them. The entrance to the UNT Press office is visible in the background through a glass wall at the side of the room.

Photograph of Elena Bashir looking at a sheaf of papers while standing behind a podium during her presentation "Existing (and Potential) Language and Linguistic Resources on South Asian Languages" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. The title slide for her presentation is projected on a screen to her right, against a brick wall. The photo was taken from behind a table where an audience member is seated and reading a paper (at right); a laptop screen and various other items are also visible on the table.

Photograph of Shobhana Chelliah standing behind a podium at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages and smiling broadly. A part of a projection screen and partial slide are visible behind her on the left, against a brick wall.

Photograph of Sadaf Munshi standing behind a podium with her palms held up, during her presentation "Ethics in Data Sharing" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. A presentation slide titled "Ethics in data sharing" is projected on a screen in the center of the image, against a brick wall. An audience member is partially visible in the far left part of the image.

Photograph of Christina Wasson standing behind a podium during her presentation "User-Centered Design" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Behind her, there is a brick wall and a screen mounted on the left side of the image displaying the title slide of the presentation.

Photograph of Christina Wasson speaking to attendees from behind a podium. Members of the audience are visible, seated at rectangular tables arranged in a semi-circle facing the speaker and covered in green UNT tablecloths. This is during the presentation "User-Centered Design" at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.

Photograph of Shobhana Chelliah standing behind a podium and gesturing with both hands held out toward her left, while at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. Behind her, the final slide of a presentation with the title "Ethics in data sharing: major questions" is projected on a screen against a brick wall. The slide includes contact information for Sadaf Munshi and links to the Burushaski Language Resource and Kashmir Oral History.

Recording of Mary Burke eliciting words with gemination in a frame sentence with Sumshot Khular. Each word is a noun ending in a consonant to observe the affect of the '=a' enclitic on the final consonant of the target word. In this version, target words do not occur in a frame sentence. This was part of the Fall 2017 LING 5300 Phonology course.

Sumshot Khular reads a list of names along with the agentive marker -ngi.

A recording of imperative verbs in the frame "Please X" as told by Daniel Tholung and Shekarnong Sankhil. The recording is useful for tone and segment information. Recorded at UNT in 2009.

A discussion of the Totlang Festival by Shekarnong Sankhil.

Recording of Mary Burke eliciting words with the '=a' enclitic from Sumshot Khular. Each word is a noun ending in a consonant to observe the affect of the '=a' enclitic on the final consonant of the target word. After the word list, Sumshot reads a list of personal names with the enclitic '=u' on them. In this version, target words and names do not occur in a frame sentence. This was part of the Fall 2017 LING 5300 Phonology course.

Shekarnong Sankhil of Thamlapokpi Village talks to Shobhana Chelliah about how the Lamkang traditionally carried out burials.

A Lamkang men's dress called diiphuun is shown here with black and orange stripes part of the costume of the Lamkang people.

A photograph of the performance of a traditional Lamkang dance, displaying the traditional jewelry and costume of the Lamkang people, including porcupine quills on the women's dresses and hornbill feathers on the men's.

Dancers ready to perform the Saa K'aai dance, a dance to celebrate for the hunted animal by feasting and dancing, Sharing the meat in the community.

Lamkang male dancer with Tony Khular, as they were ready to document the dress and ornaments worn by the Lamkang people during the seminar on the Culture and Origin of the Lamkangs. Organized by the Lamkang Kurchuknao Kunpun at Charangching Khullen-Khunkha in 2006.