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1.2 Linguistic documentation <strong>of</strong> <strong>Pite</strong> <strong>Saami</strong><br />
Video: a Panasonic NV-GS500EG-S video camera using miniDV cassettes in<br />
short play (SP) mode, using a wide-angle lens attachment and a tripod. In most<br />
cases, a RØDE SVM stereo video microphone was mounted on the camera for<br />
audio in place <strong>of</strong> using the built-in microphone.<br />
Audio: an Edirol R-09 digital audio recorder set to record 16-bit WAV format at<br />
44.1 kHz. A variety <strong>of</strong> microphones was used, depending on the specific recording<br />
situation; these included a RØDE SVM stereo video microphone, a Sennheiser<br />
lapel microphone connected to a Sennheiser EW 112-p G2 wireless set and a<br />
Sennheiser MKE 300 shotgun microphone.<br />
Still images: a Canon IXUS 80IS digital photo camera was used to take digital<br />
photographs to supplement documentation. Images are in JPEG format.<br />
Editing/Computing: video/audio recordings were transferred to a Macintosh<br />
MacBook Pro for further editing, as necessary. Video was edited using Final Cut<br />
Express and Final Cut Pro s<strong>of</strong>tware. Audio was archived in the original quality,<br />
while video was compressed to MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 format.<br />
Transcribing/annotating: the multimedia annotation program ELAN 20 was<br />
used to transcribe and annotate recordings. Annotation/transcription files are<br />
archived in both ELAN format and in plain text format.<br />
Initial transcriptions <strong>of</strong> recordings were completed with the help <strong>of</strong> native<br />
speaker assistants. 21 Transcriptions in the corpus are written in various versions<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Pite</strong> <strong>Saami</strong> orthography under development by the wordlist project Insamling<br />
av pitesamiska ord (cf. §1.2.3.4), but have been standardized according to the<br />
principles explained in §1.2.3.4 when cited in this book. All transcribed words<br />
are provided with annotations in the form <strong>of</strong> at least a translation into English<br />
or Swedish or as morpheme-by-morpheme glosses. Such glosses can serve as<br />
the sole translation <strong>of</strong> a transcribed word or utterance, particularly for data from<br />
transcribed elicitation sessions. Both glosses and free translations into English<br />
and/or Swedish may be provided, especially in non-elicited text genres. Relevant<br />
notes or commentary may also exist as annotations.<br />
Metadata were collected in a database using the FileMaker Pro program, then<br />
exported to XML and plain text formats for archiving. Information collected<br />
concerns participants, the recording situation, location, equipment used and a<br />
summary <strong>of</strong> the contents <strong>of</strong> the recording, among other things.<br />
Any given collection consists minimally <strong>of</strong> the following set <strong>of</strong> digital files:<br />
• audio recording in WAV format (16-bit, 44 kHz)<br />
20 ELAN is free s<strong>of</strong>tware developed by the Technical Group <strong>of</strong> the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics<br />
(see www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/).<br />
21 I am particularly indebted to Elsy Rankvist for her invaluable transcription assistance.<br />
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