Anthony Aristar
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Anthony Manuel Rodrigues Aristar is the founder of the LINGUIST list, the most important linguistic resource on the web [1]. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1948, received his BA from the University of Melbourne in Australia, his AM from the University of Chicago, and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He is now co-director of the Institute for Language and Information Technology at Eastern Michigan University, where he is a professor of linguistics. He is married to Helen Aristar-Dry, also a professor of linguistics at Eastern Michigan University, and co-director of the institute he heads. He has been one of the prime movers in the establishment of standards for the dissemination and publication of linguistic information on the Internet, and was Principal Investigator of the E-MELD project, whose aim was also the establishment of standards for linguistic data[2]. He is very involved in the preservation of endangered languages data. He is principal investigator of the Multitree project,[3] and co-Principal Investigator of the LL-MAP project.[4] As part of his work on the interoperability of digital linguistic data, he is involved with the Open Languages Archive Community (OLAC). He was also involved in producing the 2007 ISO 639-3 standard for the coding of languages, in that this standard is a union of the Ethnologue code-set and a code-set for ancient and constructed languages produced at LINGUIST List by him[5].
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- LINGUIST List homepage
- E-MELD aids in the preservation of endangered languages data, and in the development of the digital infastructure necessary of effective collaboration.
- The MultiTree project objective is to create a digital library of scholarly hypotheses about language relationships and subgroupings.
- LL-Map is a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) project which will dynamically integrate language information with extensive data from the physical and social sciences.
- The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) collects information about the language resources in multiple archives, making them searchable from a single location.
