Using open-source, sustainable tools for language reclamation
Channel: ICLDC YT
Date: 04/05/2021

Using open-source, sustainable tools for language reclamation: Preliminary findings from building a digital corpus of Wendat 


Authors: Megan Lukaniec, Sally Cartwright, Erin Hashimoto, Martin Holmes, Emma Pearce, Jamie Quibell, Bethany Scholfield 


The Wendat language is slowly being reawakened from over 150 years of dormancy using Jesuit manuscripts. This paper describes the creation of a digital corpus of Wendat using TEI XML, detailing the structures we have decided upon as well as the challenges we have faced in encoding these manuscripts.