Events Archives

PanLex Talk on Balinese Palm-leaf Manuscripts

January 22, 2020 || Julie Anderson

Tags: Aksara Bali, Internet Archive, lontar palm leaf, palm leaf manuscript, palm leaf wiki, San Francisco Center for the Book

On December 16, 2019, PanLex director David Kamholz spoke at the San Francisco Center for the Book on PanLex and the Internet Archive’s joint project to digitize Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts. You can view a recording of the presentation below, and slides are available here. The presentation introduces Balinese manuscripts, covers technical challenges in supporting Balinese […]

PanLex at WikidataCon 2019

November 20, 2019 || Benjamin Yang

Categories: Events, News, PanLex Database

Tags: crowdsourcing, data gathering, endangered languages, India, keynote, lexical data, linguistic diversity, linked data, Noam Chomsky, Oscar the Grouch, Pāṇini, structured data, Wikidata, WikidataCon 2019

On October 25, 02019, PanLex was honored to present the first keynote speech at WikidataCon in Berlin, Germany. As our representative, I was excited to share PanLex’s ideas about the importance of linguistic diversity and lexical data’s role in helping to preserve that diversity with the staff, volunteers, and users of Wikidata. The Wikidata audience […]