By funding models, we mean ways of securing funding to build and maintain the various pieces of the linguistic cyberinfrastructure: standards, corpora, archives, tools. This includes the tools that linguists use to access the data, and also the tools that make it possible (or even easy) for ordinary linguists to produce and publish standards-compatible data.

The Funding Models group will consider how to fund the creation and maintenance of this ongoing cyberinfrastructure for linguistic data. Most pieces of this cyberinfrastructure are created as part of larger projects or as spin-off from other activities; and often, a particular corpus or tool will have different funding models for creation, maintenance/evolution, and distribution.

[Some preliminary thoughts by group co-chair Mark Liberman are here.]

[The outline of our preliminary report on Sunday morning is here.]

We note that there is a prior question: how to organize the process. In particular, the balance between central planning and bottom-up initiative is an issue to think about.



Other resource pages: Linguist List Software Page, Natural Language Software Registry, SIL's Linguistics Computing Resources on the Internet, Open Translation Tools