[Standards] recommendation on glottolog codes?

[Piotr Bański]

Dear Dieter and all,

Thanks for this, it's going to be a nice use case for entering a new 
proposal onto the standards chart.
With the evaluation of our Institute ending today, I can now switch to 
my commitments towards the CSC again and the list will be hearing from 
me on this soon.

Now, turning to the matter at hand directly. With both the name of 
Martin Haspelmath and institutions such as SIL International and MPI 
Jena in the background, and given the scale of the work behind 
Glottolog, I personally share Dieter's sentiment, although as a 
Committee, I guess we should better use a documented process for that, 
and in the best of worlds, I would love to see that process pushed onto 
ISO, and us giving a stamp of approval to a proposal that would already 
be part of an ISO track (even if it were in the early stages of the ISO 
process, with all the question marks entailed by that). With my ISO hat 
on, I just can't imagine that no ISO activity would be taking place in 
this regard, unless TC37 SC2 is in deep slumber.

@Committee: Do we have anyone here with a direct channel to TC37 SC2 
open, please?

@Dieter: would you be willing to share the use case that prompted the 
question? Or was it just general musing, given the existence of Glottolog?

I will probe my SC3 and SC4 contacts in the meantime. One way or 
another, I find the question inspiring in more than one respect, 
definitely a good argument for a dynamic system that we have talked 
about in Aix. And hopefully a live example of it, too.

Best regards,

   Piotr




On 05/04/17 18:05, Dieter Van Uytvanck wrote:
> Dear standards committee,
>
> I was recently asked what the status of the glottolog language codes
> (http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language) are within CLARIN.
>
> They seem to be well-endorsed by many researchers, especially in the
> field of (non-western) language documentation.
>
> Especially in those cases where there is no ISO-639-3 code, I suppose
> these can be recommended?
>
> Thanks for your opinion on this!
>
> best regards,


-- 
Piotr Bański, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher,
Institut für Deutsche Sprache,
R5 6-13
68-161 Mannheim, Germany