SADiLaR
| Formation | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Buildings F16 C & F16 D North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa |
Executive Director | Prof Langa Khumalo |
| Website | https://sadilar.org/en/ |
SADiLaR (the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources), is a Department of Science and Innovation-sponsored initiative to create and manage digital resources and software supporting research and development in digital language resources in South Africa.[1][2]
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History
Founded in 2016, and hosted at the North-West University,[3] SADiLaR aims to provide a resource centre that simulates, enables, manages and distributes digital research related to all of South Africa's official languages.[4] It functions both as host and as a hub for a number of nodes, including other universities, research centres and public archives.
Nodes
The nodes[5] that are linked to SADiLaR include;
- CSIR (HLT Research Group) [6]
- Inter-institutional Centre for Language Development and Assessment (ICELDA)
- North-West University (Centre for Text Technology)
- Stellenbosch University (Child Language Development)
- University of Pretoria (Department of African Languages) [7]
- University of South Africa (Department of African Languages) [8]
Collaborations
SADiLaR is involved in a collaboration between Wikipedia and the Pan South African Language Board. Together they launched the SWiP project[9] at the University of South Africa in September 2023. SWiP advocates for equality among all indigenous languages and encouraging languages communities in South Africa to become more visible on Wikipedia and post information in their own language.[10]
References
- ^ "Government Establishes a New Digital Centre to Promote Indigenous Languages". www.dst.gov.za.
- ^ Gugu Lourie (2019). "South Africa to Launch Centre for Digital Language Resources". Archived from the original on 20 November 2023.
- ^ "SADiLaR takes the lead in digitising establishing 11 national languages | news.nwu.ac.za". news.nwu.ac.za.
- ^ Linda Stokman (2018). "South Africa joins CLARIN ERIC as observer".
- ^ "SADiLaR Nodes". sadilar.org/. 2020.
- ^ "Building human language technologies for South African Languages". CSIR Science Scope. 14 (1): 37–38. 2019 – via Sabinet.
- ^ "WATCH: SADiLaR digitisation node at UP developing SA languages 'in an African way, developed by Africans for Africans'". www.up.ac.za/. 2020.
- ^ Naidu-Hoffmeester, Rivonia (2020). "Developing digital African language resources". www.up.ac.za/.
- ^ "SWiP project to champion SA's indigenous languages online". news.nwu.ac.za.
- ^ Birgit Ottermann. "SWiP project to champion SA's indigenous languages online".
External links
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