SADiLaR
| Formation | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Buildings F16 C & F16 D North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa |
Executive Director | Prof Langa Khumalo |
| Website | https://sadilar.org/en/ |
SADiLaR (the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources), is a Department of Science and Innovation-sponsored initiative to create and manage digital resources and software supporting research and development in digital language resources in South Africa.[1][2]
History
[edit]Founded in 2016, and hosted at the North-West University,[3] SADiLaR aims to provide a resource centre that simulates, enables, manages and distributes digital research related to all of South Africa's official languages.[4] It functions both as host and as a hub for a number of nodes, including other universities, research centres and public archives.
Nodes
[edit]The nodes[5] that are linked to SADiLaR include;
- CSIR[disambiguation needed] (HLT Research Group) [6]
- Inter-institutional Centre for Language Development and Assessment (ICELDA)
- North-West University (Centre for Text Technology)
- Stellenbosch University (Child Language Development)
- University of Pretoria (Department of African Languages) [7]
- University of South Africa (Department of African Languages) [8]
DH-OER
[edit]SADiLaR launched[9] the DH-OER Champions[10] project to stimulate activism and research around the use and/or creation of OER for the digital humanities (DH) at universities in South Africa. [11] The inaugural DH-OER cohort offered stakeholders the opportunity observe how the various open champions (academics, researchers, and students) from other disciplines, institutions, and regions in South Africa (and beyond) can make use of OER in their disciplines. The results of these DH OER projects are listed on the Educator Track page on the SADiLaR site.
Higher Education Support
[edit]SADiLaR are engaged in the systematic creation of relevant digital text, speech and multimodal resources [12]
Collaborations
[edit]SADiLaR is involved in a collaboration between Wikipedia and the Pan South African Language Board. Together they launched the SWiP collaboration [13] at the University of South Africa in September 2023. SWiP advocates for equality among all indigenous languages and encouraging languages communities in South Africa to become more visible on Wikipedia and post information in their own language.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "Government Establishes a New Digital Centre to Promote Indigenous Languages". www.dst.gov.za.
- ^ Gugu Lourie (2019). "South Africa to Launch Centre for Digital Language Resources". Archived from the original on 20 November 2023.
- ^ "SADiLaR takes the lead in digitising establishing 11 national languages | news.nwu.ac.za". news.nwu.ac.za.
- ^ Linda Stokman (2018). "South Africa joins CLARIN ERIC as observer".
- ^ "SADiLaR Nodes". sadilar.org/. 2020.
- ^ "Building human language technologies for South African Languages". CSIR Science Scope. 14 (1): 37–38. 2019 – via Sabinet.
- ^ "WATCH: SADiLaR digitisation node at UP developing SA languages 'in an African way, developed by Africans for Africans'". www.up.ac.za/. 2020.
- ^ Naidu-Hoffmeester, Rivonia (2020). "Developing digital African language resources". www.up.ac.za/.
- ^ "Launching the Digital Humanities Open Educational Resources Champions Initiative – SADiLaR".
- ^ "The Educator Track".
- ^ "DH OER Champions".
- ^ https://news.nwu.ac.za/sites/news.nwu.ac.za/files/files/Robert.Balfour/Address%202019_10_18.UNISA.Impact-of-4IR-on-indigenous-languages.doc
- ^ "SWiP project to champion SA's indigenous languages online". news.nwu.ac.za.
- ^ Birgit Ottermann. "SWiP project to champion SA's indigenous languages online".
External links
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