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This video was made at the first Human Language Record-a-thon, held on July 30, 02011 at the Internet Archive. The video describes how to make a Language Record-a-thon video and how to upload it to the Rosetta Project Archive. Presented by Laura Welcher, Director of the Rosetta Project at The Long Now Foundation.

Introduction to the idea and goals of the Human Language Record-a-thon, a project to engage the world in helping document the nearly 7,000 languages spoken on Planet Earth. The Human Language Record-a-thon was held as an all-day workshop at the Internet Archive on July 30, 02011, and was simulcast to remote participants around the world. Presented by Laura Welcher, Director of the Rosetta Project at The Long Now Foundation.

Laura Welcher, director of The Rosetta Project at The Long Now Foundation presents a poster on a distributed archive model in a session titled "Metadata in Language Documentation and Description" at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Pittsburgh, January 9, 02011.

This a short video presented in American Sign Language by Carla Morris to introduce herself and the blog entry it will accompany. Carla is a summer intern with the Rosetta Project for the summer of 2010. She is currently a graduate student with the Linguistics department at Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.

Rosetta Project linguists and archivists demonstrate the Rosetta Disk and collection of language documentation at The Long Now Foundation's booth at Maker Faire.