Table of Contents

1: Nicholas Thieberger: Introduction
Part One: Data Collection and Management
2: Anna Margetts and Andrew Margetts: Audio and Video Recording Techniques for Linguistic Research
3: Asifa Majid: A Guide to Stimulus-based Elicitation for Semantic Cetegories
4: Ulrike Mosel: Morphosyntactic Analysis in the Field, a Guide to the Guides
5: Nicholas Thieberger and Andrea Berez: Linguistic Data Management
Part Two: Recording Performance
6: Miriam Meyerhoff, Chie Adachi, Golnaz Nanbakhsh, and Anna Strycharz: Sociolinguistic Fieldwork
7: Mandana Seyfeddinipur: Gesture - Understanding the Role of Gesture in Communication, How Gestures Can be Described
8: Linda Barwick: Including Music and the Temporal Arts in Language Documentation
Part Three: Collaborating With Other Disciplines
9: Nicholas Evans: Anything Can Happen: the Verb Lexicon and Interdisciplinary Fieldwork
10: Laurent Dousset: Understanding Human Relations (kinship systems)
11: Nancy Pollock: The Language of Food
12: Barry Conn: Botanical Collecting
13: Will McClatchey: Ethnobiology - Basic Methods for Documenting Biological Knowledge Represented in Languages
14: Pierre Lemonnier: Technology
15: Marc Chemillier: Fieldwork in Ethnomathematics
16: Jarita Holbrook: Cultural Astronomy for Linguists
17: Andrew Turk, David Mark, Carolyn O'Meara, and David Stea: Geography - Understanding how to Identify Landforms and Their Uses
18: David Nash and Jane Simpson: Toponymy
Part Four: Collaborating With the Community
19: Keren Rice: Ethical Issues in Linguistic Fieldwork
20: Paul Newman: Copyright and Other Legal Concerns
21: Monica Macaulay: Training Linguistics Students for the Realities of Fieldwork

About the Author

Nicholas Thieberger is a linguist who has worked with speakers of Warnman, from Western Australia and South Efate, a language from central Vanuatu. His grammar of South Efate broke new ground to include citable data linked to an archival version of the primary recordings. He is interested in developments in e-humanities methods and their potential to improve research practice, and is currently developing methods for creating reusable data sets from fieldwork on
previously unrecorded languages. He is the project officer with the multi-institutional Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC.org.au), a databank that holds
3,000 hours of digitised audio files. He was an Assistant Professor in linguistics at the University of Hawai'i and is currently an Australian Research Council QEII Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Reviews

a welcome addition to laying the groundwork for stronger documentation practices.
*Marcus Smith, Studies in Language*

The publication of OHLF is a timely and invaluable resource ... for instructing fieldworkers in many other facets of language documentation - data collection and management, recording performance, archiving, and interaction with the language community.
*Andrew Pawley, Language Documentation & Conservation*