content form recordings materials doi/submission deadlines
Glottothèque

instructions for contributors

content

  • Goal

    snippets presenting research findings on Mayan languages. You may present the core issues of your recent publication (pointing to the published research for more information) or an issue that you find challenging in the study of Mayan languages or give an overview of the discussion on a grammatical phenomenon - pointing to further readings.

  • Audience

    linguistics students and researchers, with general linguistics background, not necessarily familiar with Mayan, but having some background on the relevant issues through the introductory parts of this course

  • Interaction

    please feel free to add questions or exercises to be discussed in the meeting with the participants (if this makes sense for the contents of your presentation)! You may also point to interesting directions for student research or useful resources for the Mayan languages.

  • Duration

    approximately 10 minutes

form

You may use the following pptx template in the interest of uniformity. But please feel free to use your own templates or tools if you prefer to do so. What finally matters, is the linguistic content:

Stylesheet for presentation files (ppt file)

recordings

Every system that can create a video file in .mp4 format is equally welcome.

There are two widely used options for video recordings that we illustrate in the following for contributors who may need a suggestion:

  • zoom

    probably the easiest option as most of us are familiar with this application. Possible drawbacks: (a) large files, (b) sometimes (not often) recordings get lost for unclear reasons and must be redone. These problems are not fatal, zoom is certainly a convenient option.
    How to create video files with ZOOM?

  • OBS

    convenient tool that offers more flexibility to define settings for smaller files and to arrange the components of your presentation. Main problem: another software to get acquainted with (not very complicated anyway).
    How to create video files with OBS?

  • further options

    e.g., the free video editor screencast, etc. are equally appropriate for our purposes. The only requirement is that the final video should be in .mp4 format; the video editor does not matter.

  • video file size

    If the size of your video file is too large and want to reduce it, you may find these instructions useful:
    How to compress video files?

materials

  • general rule

    Kindly not use any copyright-protected material in your video file without permission. In case you integrate pictures produced by a third party in your presentation, you may use pictures that are available in the web under a Creative Commons license, always respecting the terms of the license (especially with respect to attribution to the creators).

  • repositories with free material

    There are various ways to find free material (under the conditions of the respective license, e.g., to look in a repository such as unsplash.

  • find in google

    You may filter google image results, such that only images with a Creative Commons License are displayed:

    Google > Images > click Tools > go to Usage rights > select Creative Commons license

doi/submission

It is recommended to obtain a digital object identifier (DOI) for each video file, so that this work will be citable for future reference. For this purpose, the lecturers can upload their videos in zenodo, which is a repository for research data, hosted by the CERN’ data centered, funded by the OpenAIRE programme of the European Union. Contributors may either upload their videos on their own and just send us the link to upload their videos in the Glottothèque (see Option A below). Alternatively, they can send the video file to the Editors together with their permission that we upload the video file in Zenodo (see Option B below).

Caveat: The Editors have always the possibility to remove the data from Glottothèque website, and will be glad to do it at any point in the future if the contributor wishes so. However, data uploaded to zenodo are permanently archived, i.e., they cannot be removed. They can be replaced by newer versions (in which case the older version is still archived as an older version). This is the same as printed publications.

Please send the video files and supplementary materials to the editors (e.g., by dropbox, google drive, or any other tool).

  • Go to zenodo

    https://zenodo.org/. You will need to sign up (for the first time that you are using zenodo) and to log in with your account name and password.

  • Click on New Upload

    Upload your video files in zenodo. Along with the video files you can upload any useful material that can be used for the same teaching unit, e.g., the power point presentation file and/or a pdf version of it, related sound files or any type of supplementary material (if needed).

  • Click on Start Upload

  • Fill in

    Upload type: Video/Audio
    Digital Object identifier: empty (a doi will be assigned by the zenodo repository)
    Publication date: …
    Title: Snippets’ title
    Authors: Lecturers’ names, affiliations, ORCID’s
    Description: It will be nice to insert an informative description of the contents of the teaching unit. You may close the description with a reference to the Glottothèque: This lecture is part of the lecture series: Glottothèque: Mayan Languages. Berlin, Göttingen, Mexico City: electronic resource, at https://spw.uni-goettingen.de/projects/maya/, edited by Rodrigo Gutiérrez Bravo, Stavros Skopeteas, Elisabeth Verhoeven.
    Access right: Open Access.
    License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
    Further information: The further fields are optional. It is useful to set a version number, this can be incrementally changed if you wish to update your video files in the future. Further descriptors (keywords, language, etc.) are useful for the visibility of your teaching unit.

  • Save/Publish

  • Go to Communities and select "+ submit to community" and then select "Mayan Languages". We will just accept your request and then download your files directly from Zenodo for the Glottothèque.

After publishing the resource, you can make changes in the metadata, including all descriptions, names, etc. You will not be able to remove the uploaded files. You will be able to create a new version (with a new version number), while the old version will remain permanently stored in the repository.


Please send the video files and supplementary materials to the editors (e.g., by dropbox, google drive, or any other tool). For the documentation of our resource, please send a short mail to an Editor:

Dear editors of the Glottothèque,

herewith the authors ("authors’ names") give you their permission to upload our teaching unit ("title") in the website of the Glottothèque. We are informed that we may withdraw this permission at any time point in the future, in which case our files will be removed from this website.

The authors undertake the responsibility for the contents of the presentation.

We ask the editors to upload our teaching unit in zenodo (with our author names) in order to obtain a digital object identifier. We are informed that files uploaded in zenodo cannot be removed in the future.

The authors

deadlines

  • 07.12.2023

    snippets on general and morphological issues (discussion on Mo 18.12.2023).

  • 05.01.2024

    snippets on the nominal domain, with emphasis on numbers and classifiers (discussion on Mo 15.01.2023).

  • 17.01.2024

    snippets on the verbal domain, with emphasis on ergativity (discussion on Mo 29.01.2024).

  • 01.02.2024

    snippets on clausal domain, with emphasis on information structure (discussion on Mo 12.02.2024).

  • 10.03.2024

    poster presentations by the course participants (discussion on Mo 18.03.2024).