Recording of a discussion among Harimohon Thounaojam, Rex Khullar, and Beshot Khullar about why linguists record conversations.

Beshot Khullar of Phaidam reads the Prodigal Son. A landowner's second son demands his share of the inheritance before the father's death, goes off and squanders it, and returns to his father, who accepts his penitent son. The older brother, however, is upset at his father's acceptance of his returning brother.

Discussion of reduplication with positive and negative connotations in Lamkang. Discussant are Beshot Khullar, Rengpu Rex Khullar and Shobhana Chelliah.

A discussion of Theipa paomin [the Squirrel Story] with Beshot Khullar about his telling of the story. This recording could be used to illustrate how linguists can get aids to analyze grammars via transcription and translation of connected text.

Recording of Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar discussing about preparing for the Totlang Kam festival. There are three tracks. The first is the voice of Harimohon Thounaojam encouraging the speakers to pick a topic of conversation. The back and forth is clearly produced for the sake of the recorder and often resembles an interview rather than conversation.

Word list reading and discussion based on words collected by Dr. Harimohon Thounaojam.

Beshot Khullar tells a Benglam story. The retelling was for Shobhana Chelliah with Rex Khullar in attendance.

A review of how some foods are cooked and naming of traditional tools by Beshot Khullar using a picture stimulus from a magazine called the "Souvenir".

Beshot interviews an unidentified young woman (Lamkang Student) about her home life and family.

The traditional narrative Theipaa Paomin [the Squirrel story] as told by Beshot Khullar.

Recording by Daniel Tholung of a retelling of the traditional story The Squirrel and Rongnu.

Recording of a translation and discussion of Lamkang proverbs with conversation about the process in Manipuri (Meiteiron).

Photograph of Lamkang elder women demonstrating the spinning and weaving from cotton wool called plaa ktxen in Lamkang. This demonstration was performed during the first Lamkang Snu Lop conference in Mantri Pantha village in 2008. Oganized by Olish Shilshi and her executive members of Lamkang Snu Lop.

Melissa Robinson eliciting possessive constructions with Sumshot Khular.

Photograph of Lamkang elder women demonstrating the spinning and weaving from cotton wool called plaa ktxen in Lamkang.This demonstration was performed during the first Lamkang Snu Lop conference in Mantri Pantha village in 2008.

Photograph of Shangwar Dilbung grinding rice in a grinder made of stone called [lung doo tperdeelna'] in Lamkang. Shangwar Dilbung is seen here in this picture demonstrating the grinding of rice during the Lamkang Snu Lop Conference at Mantri Pantha village, Chandel Manipur, India. At her side is seen a weaver weaving a Tkar Kvom a traditional wrap around worn by Lamkang women.

Dataset generated for analysis of The Pear Story as told by Beshot Khullar. The data set includes a sound recording, transcription with an English translation, flextext files (from Fieldworks Language Explorer), and accompanying derivative files.

Photograph of Lamkang traditonal dance called Reelruh kardaam. In this picture is seen women groups performing this dance which normally is performed only by men in the traditional systems, This is performed during the Snu Lop Conference at Mantri Pantha village in 2008.

This is a photograph of a woman with a private collection of ancient Manipuri manuscripts stored in a cabinet.

This two-year project will advance understanding of the workflow and processes best able to increase access to and use of digitized biological collection metadata within the stakeholder communities comprised of biologists, natural history museum collections managers, biodiversity standards groups, and the library and information science community.

This paper reports an exploratory study on resources and resource sharing among researchers in Intelligent Information Access (IIA).

This presentation discusses an exploratory study on resources and resource sharing among researchers in Intelligent Information Access (IIA). The investigation consists of two stages. In Stage One, the authors conducted a content analysis to identify resources used in 145 research papers and reports in two subfields of IIA; and in Stage Two, the authors carried out an online survey of IIA researchers to understand resource-sharing channels and the researchers' perspectives on resource sharing.

This paper discusses assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata. This paper reports on a content analysis of collection records in an aggregation of cultural heritage collections.

Presentation for the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications on assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata.