CRCL Inc.
Annual Report, 2004
This year’s activities include:
· CRCL Inc. received provisional tax-exempt status early in 2004.
· The CRCL Inc. Outreach Program assisted the following projects:
o 'Scholar's workbench' for etymological research of Katuic and Bahnaric branches of Mon-Khmer (Paul Sidwell)
o Searchable Khmer text corpus / pilot project in data-driven learning (Frank Smith)
o Transcribed oral corpus and lexicon for Tai languages of Assam (Stephen Morey)
· The CRCL Inc. Associates program was established. Associates are established professionals in linguistics and computer science who support our mission, share our interests, and may from time to time consult for or advise us on topics of mutual concern. They include experts in Vietnamese (Dr. Mark Alves), Tai langauges (Dr. Stephen Morey), Mon-Khmer languages (Dr. Paul Sidwell), and Burmo-Tibetan languages (Dr. Justin Watkins).
· CRCL Inc. established useful working relationships with three publishing houses:
o Dunwoody Press produces a broad range of dictionaries of Southeast Asian languages, including Khmer, Lao, Burmese, and Shan. They have assisted CRCL in obtaining data for these languages.
o Drum Publications produces dictionaries for minority Burmese / Thai language. They have assisted us in obtaining Karen-English data, and we will assist them with their English-Karen data.
o Pacific Linguistics is a major publisher of scholarly works on Southeast Asian and Pacific languages. We are assisting them in preparing H.L. Shorto’s final work, a dictionary of Mon-Khmer
· CRCL Inc. submitted two major funding proposals to the US Department of Education in 2004, seeking support for a Digital Southeast Asia Library.
o International Research and Studies (IRS). This three-year proposal was submitted by CRCL Inc. with the collaboration of the University of Wisconsin Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
o Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA). This four-year proposal was submitted by the Universty of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Southeast Asian Studies, with CRCL Inc. as a collaborator.
We are joined in both proposals by the cooperation of:
o Center for Khmer Studies
o Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia
o Coalition of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages
o open-source software NGO’s in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Funding CRCL Inc. did not receive or expend funds in 2004. The Executive Director continues to donate time and expenses to the organization.
2005 Our agenda for 2005 is much the same. We will receive notification of the IRS and TICFIA grants in mid-year; if either is successful (we will only accept one) work will begin in October. Grant-writing will continue; we will probably submit proposals to the National Endowment for the Humanities in July, and again to IRS in November (if this year’s proposal does not pass).
We are seeking to establish a more formal relationship with the Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap, and hope to seek funding from the Soros and/or Getty foundations with their assistance.
We will also attend the Spring Association for Asian Studies meeting in Chicago in order to make short presentations to CORMOSEA, COTSEAL, and SEASSI.
Submitted January 31, 2005
Doug Cooper
Executive Director, CRCL Inc.