RWAAI: Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage
The Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage (RWAAI) is a digital multimedia resource dedicated to the maintenance of research materials documenting the intangible heritage of the Austroasiatic communities of Mainland Southeast Asia and India. It is the first resource dedicated to a specific language family in this diverse and dynamic region. RWAAI serves to: Consolidate both legacy and newly created materials and expertise into a unique, persistent and accessible multidisciplinary resource documenting the languages and cultures of Austroasiatic-speaking communities. Provide a digital workspace for contributors where they can store, curate and reuse their research collections. Facilitate the presentation of intangible heritage collections for fellow researchers, community members, and the general public by assisting depositors in the digitisation, cataloguing and presentation of their research collections. Bring together an international network of Austroasiatic scholars to generate new initiatives in the evolving field of eScience. Provide capacity building in MSEA to promote the documentation of intangible heritage, and sustainable archiving technology and data management. Purpose: To maintain research materials documenting the intangible heritage of the Austroasiatic communities of Mainland Southeast Asia and India.
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Data from linguistic studies, linguistic analysis and sociolinguistics, as well as data on language policies, people's language skills, languages spoken at work and at home, attitudes towards minority languages etc.
Data on identity formation, who people feel they are and where they feel they belong in terms of nationality, locality, social class, generation, ethnicity, religion or any other social/cultural grouping. Also covers exclusion of self or others from those groups.
Data related to different aspects of life in the community, or in urban and rural areas. Opinions on and images of the neighbourhood, or of urban or rural areas. Services, facilities and business opportunities in the neighbourhood.
Use note: In addition to this broader topic, use another topic for historical data. Example: for data on the working environments of family doctors in the 1960s, use HISTORY and 'Working conditions' plus 'Health care services and policies'. Use the HISTORY topic on its own only if a more specific topic cannot be found in this vocabulary.
Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
COMPETENCY IN THE USE OF LANGUAGE OR IN THE ACQUISITION OF ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES
Fields of inquiry in human constructs and concerns as opposed to natural processes and social relations. These are traditionally the study of literature, philosophy, and religion.
A social science dealing with group relationships, patterns of collective behavior, and social organization.
Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure.
A collective expression for all behavior patterns acquired and socially transmitted through symbols. Culture includes customs, traditions, and language.
Acquisition of knowledge as a result of instruction in a formal course of study.
SYSTEMATIC MEANS OF COMMUNICATING THROUGH THE USE OF SIGNS, GESTURES, WORDS, AND/OR AUDITORY SYMBOLS
THOSE WHOSE MOTHER TONGUE IS NOT THE MAIN LANGUAGE OF THE COUNTRY IN WHICH THEY LIVE
A SOCIETY'S SOCIAL, ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE FROM THE PAST, BOTH TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE
LANGUAGES USED INTERNATIONALLY; SPECIFICALLY, THOSE RECOGNIZED OFFICIALLY AS LANGUAGES OF INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS, DIPLOMACY, ETC.
The science devoted to the comparative study of man.