Mr David Nathan
BA (La Trobe), MA (Sussex), Dip Management (CMI)
Overview
Department of Linguistics
Director, Endangered Languages Archive
- Name:
- Mr David Nathan
- Email address:
- dn2@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4584
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- R201
- Website:
- http://www.dnathan.com/
Teaching
Along with developing the ELAR archive, I co-ordinate various training progmrammes in documentation methodology and multimedia.
Research
Over the last 15 years I have developed software for language research, publication, and education; established and run web sites at the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) , the WWW Virtual Library for Aboriginal Languages of Australia, the Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages , and HRELP; and was co-author (with Peter Austin) of the first web hypertext bilingual dictionary (the Gamilaraay/Kamilaroi dictionary). My conventional publications include the textbook "Australia's Indigenous Languages"M, and various papers on lexicography, the Internet, and multimedia. I produced multimedia CD-ROMs for a number of endangered languages: Paakanytji (Broken Hill area, with Luise Hercus), Yolngu-Matha (northeast Arnhem Land, with Michael Christie), Warrungu (Queensland, with Tasaku Tsunoda), Karaim (Lithuania, with Eva Csato), and Yuwaalaraay/Gamilaraay (with John Giacon). Previously I ran the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive at AIATSIS.
Publications
Edited Books
Austin, Peter and Bond, Oliver and Marten, Lutz and Nathan, David, eds. (2011) Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Language Description and Theory. London: SOAS.
Austin, Peter and Bond, Oliver and Charette, Monik and Nathan, David and Sells, Peter, eds. (2009) Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 2. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.
Austin, Peter K. and Bond, Oliver and Nathan, David, eds. (2007) Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory. London, UK: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.
Austin, Peter K. and Bond, Oliver and Nathan, David, eds. (2007) Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory. London: Department of Linguistics, SOAS.
Book Chapters
Austin, Peter K. and Bond, Oliver and Nathan, David (2007) 'Introduction.' In: Austin, Peter K. and Bond, Oliver and Nathan, David, (eds.), Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory. London, UK: Department of Linguistics, SOAS, pp. 1-2.
Nathan, David (2007) 'A Talking Dictionary of Paakantyi.' In: Dyson, L. E. and Hendriks, M. and Grant, S., (eds.), Information Technology and Indigenous People. Information Science Publishing, pp. 200-204.
Nathan, David (2006) 'Proficient, Permanent, or Pertinent: Aiming for Sustainability.' In: Barwick, L. and Thieberger, N., (eds.), Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork. The University of Sydney, pp. 57-68.
Nathan, David (2006) 'Multimedia: A Community-Oriented Information and Communication Technology.' In: Saxena, A. and Borin, L., (eds.), Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia. Status and Policies, Case Studies and Applications of Information Technology. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 257-277.
Nathan, David (2006) 'Thick Interfaces: Mobilizing Language Documentation with Multimedia.' In: Gippert, J. and Himmelmann, N. P. and Mosel, U., (eds.), Essentials of Language Documentation. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 363-379.
Articles
Nathan, David (2008) 'Digital archives: essential elements in the workflow for endangered languages documentation.' Language Documentation and Description, 5 .
Csató, Éva Á. and Nathan, David (2007) 'Multiliteracy, past and present, in the Karaim communities.' Language Documentation and Description, 4 . pp. 207-230.
