The interval ends when the Division Director acts upon the Program Officer's recommendation. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent Federal agency created by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 USC 1861-75). August 23, 2017. Chapter II.D.7 of the PAPPG should be consulted to prepare a DEL Conference proposal. Interoperable digital repositories will be created. DOBES is maintained within the Language Archive (TLA) located at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. telephone: All other DEL awards will be funded and administered by NSF. DEL also encourages investigators to include in their projects innovative plans for training native speakers in descriptive linguistics and new technologies which support the documentation of endangered languages. telephone: Accomplishing the goals of the DEL program may require multidisciplinary research teams and comprehensive, interdisciplinary approaches across the sciences, engineering, education, and humanities, as appropriate. Discuss any intellectual property issues that might affect the availability of the materials. Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, These languages are among the few sources of evidence for filling in the record of the human past. These endangered languages constitute an irreplaceable treasure, not only for the communities who speak them, but also for scientists and scholars. National Science Foundation Office of the General Counsel Applicants who have satisfied all the requirements for a degree and are awaiting its conferral are eligible for DEL Fellowships; but such applicants need a letter from the dean of the conferring school or their department chair attesting to the applicant’s status as of the DEL deadline listed in this solicitation. National Science Board approved criteria. A. Proposers are invited to suggest names of persons they believe are especially well qualified to review the proposal and/or persons they would prefer not review the proposal. DEL awardees will be required to include appropriate acknowledgment of the respective Party’s support in reports and/or publications on work performed under this award. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Given that NSF is the primary federal agency charged with nurturing and supporting excellence in basic research and education, the following three principles apply: With respect to the third principle, even if assessment of Broader Impacts outcomes for particular projects is done at an aggregated level, PIs are expected to be accountable for carrying out the activities described in the funded project. NEH award conditions related to awards to organizations and individuals are available electronically at: https://www.neh.gov/grants/manage. For questions related to the use of FastLane or Research.gov, contact: FastLane and Research.gov Help Desk: 1-800-673-6188. The NSF website provides the most comprehensive source of information on NSF Directorates (including contact information), programs and funding opportunities. These institutions must recruit, train, and prepare a diverse STEM workforce to advance the frontiers of science and participate in the U.S. technology-based economy. (703)292-8740, Documenting the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Africa's West Coast. The project outcomes report also must be prepared and submitted using Research.gov. NSF's contribution to the national innovation ecosystem is to provide cutting-edge research under the guidance of the Nation's most creative scientists and engineers. What is the potential for the proposed activity to, Advance knowledge and understanding within its own field or across different fields (Intellectual Merit); and. General inquiries regarding this program should be made to: Keren Rice - SBE, Recent advances in information technology can facilitate prompt and coordinated fieldwork. email: dlangend@nsf.gov. See program website for any updates to the points of contact. Computerization of speech and universal Internet access is transforming the practice of linguistics in the area of endangered languages. By DOCUMENTING ENDANGERED LANGUAGES PROGRAM, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. Reviewers will be asked to evaluate proposals using two National Science Board approved merit review criteria and, if applicable, additional program specific criteria. More comprehensive information on NSF Reporting Requirements and other important information on the administration of NSF awards is contained in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) Chapter VII, available electronically on the NSF Website at https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pappg. Documentation Projects. For FELLOWSHIPS: U.S. citizens are eligible to apply for fellowships. See PAPPG Chapter II.C.2 for guidance on the required sections of a full research proposal submitted to NSF. In addition, "NSF Update" is an information-delivery system designed to keep potential proposers and other interested parties apprised of new NSF funding opportunities and publications, important changes in proposal and award policies and procedures, and upcoming NSF Grants Conferences. Documenting Endangered Languages is a joint, multi-year funding program of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used human languages, DEL seeks not only to acquire scientific data that will soon be unobtainable, but to integrate, systematize, and make the resulting linguistic findings widely available by exploiting advances in information technology. Senior Personnel, proposals for Fellowships only have to indicate the intended number of months of tenure of the Award in the "Calendar Months" box and the consequent total stipend at the rate of $5,000 per month in the "Funds Requested by Proposer" box, and then click on the "Calculate" button. From the most severe perspective, the entire notion of documenting endangered languages can be viewed as unethical, like a portrait artist plying their trade in an emergency room. Please note that the program contact information is current at the time of publishing. email: jmaling@nsf.gov, Mary Downs - NEH, Senior Program Officer, Preservation & Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, email: lchase@nsf.gov, Roberto Delgado - GEO, Collaborative projects cannot exceed $150,000 total per year for one to three years. The agency operates no laboratories itself but does support National Research Centers, user facilities, certain oceanographic vessels and Arctic and Antarctic research stations. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, … Reviewers are strongly encouraged to review the criteria, including PAPPG Chapter II.C.2.d(i), prior to the review of a proposal. The FastLane and Research.gov Help Desk answers general technical questions related to the use of the FastLane and Research.gov systems. Senior Program Officer, Preservation & Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, Documenting Endangered Languages Technology Community Self-Documentation Training Curriculum Development Impact Video Gallery News Blog Connect Home About. Large or particularly complex proposals or proposals from new awardees may require additional review and processing time. All fellowships will be awarded and administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In the FastLane Budget under Section A. [2] To address this issue, the NSF and NEH—in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) serving as a research host, but in a non-funding role—announced the first DEL awards in 2005, in an attempt to preserve records of endangered languages in use. The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme responds to this loss by supporting researchers to document endangered languages worldwide. The OMB control number for this collection is 3145-0023. Senior NSF staff further review recommendations for awards. Reviewers will be chosen jointly by NSF and NEH staff. Describe the level, quality, and accessibility of any existing documentation of the language(s). Documentation is a key complement to language revitalization efforts, but DEL does not support projects to revive or expand the actual use of endangered languages. These principles are to be given due diligence by PIs and organizations when preparing proposals and managing projects, by reviewers when reading and evaluating proposals, and by NSF program staff when determining whether or not to recommend proposals for funding and while overseeing awards. Tribal organizations and other American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian serving organizations. This report will be posted on the NSF website exactly as it is submitted by the PI. [Recipient should enter the awarding agency and awarding agency’s award number(s)].". These reviewers are selected by Program Officers charged with oversight of the review process. Scope: The National Science Foundation solicits applications for the Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) Program, a joint funding program of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to develop and advance scientific and scholarly knowledge concerning endangered human languages… A revised solicitation, NSF 18-850, has just been published for the Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) Program, the joint funding initiative between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional reporting requirements apply. NEH has its own reporting requirements, which are outlined electronically at: https://www.neh.gov/grants/manage. To what extent do the proposed activities suggest and explore creative, original, or potentially transformative concepts? Linguists estimate that more than 3,000 of the 6,000-7,000 languages currently spoken will … Archiving and execution of the Data Management Plan must be completed prior to the submission of the final project report. email: kerice@nsf.gov, Joan M. Maling - SBE, Proposers are reminded that reviewers will also be asked to review the Data Management Plan and the Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan, as appropriate. Documenting oral genres in the Bolga dialect of Gurene (Northern Ghana) The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. telephone: Care is taken to ensure that reviewers have no conflicts of interest with the proposal. Senior Research Projects: Approximately 12-25 Standard or Continuing Grants ranging from $12,000 to $150,000 per year for one to three years. Included within this limit is a maximum of five pages detailing the results of work supported in the past five years by NSF or NEH, if any. This initiative involves not only archiving data and metadata related to … Additional Solicitation Specific Review Criteria. The endangered languages belong to highly divergent language families, which often present the most extreme cases of language differentiation. (Some programs or awards require submission of more frequent project reports). The Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program is a joint effort between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to help fund fieldwork, research, and community activities that are involved in recording, documenting, and archiving endangered human languages. After proposers have received an e-mail notification from NSF, Research.gov should be used to check the status of an application. NSF also supports development of a strong science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce by investing in building the knowledge that informs improvements in STEM teaching and learning. Therefore, proposers must fully address both criteria. NSF projects, in the aggregate, should contribute more broadly to achieving societal goals. No later than 120 days following expiration of a grant, the PI also is required to submit a final project report, and a project outcomes report for the general public. PIs should examine the formats of the required reports in advance to assure availability of required data. Cooperative agreements also are administered in accordance with NSF Cooperative Agreement Financial and Administrative Terms and Conditions (CA-FATC) and the applicable Programmatic Terms and Conditions. (below), discuss also the degree of endangerment of the language(s) to be documented and the urgency of the need for documentation. Special Instructions for International Branch Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal includes funding to be provided to an international branch campus of a US institution of higher education (including through use of subawards and consultant arrangements), the proposer must explain the benefit(s) to the project of performance at the international branch campus, and justify why the project activities cannot be performed at the US campus. [3][4][5], U.S.-based institutions that are eligible to apply for the grants include universities, colleges, tribal colleges and universities, tribal-serving institutions or tribal nations, and non-profit, non-academic institutions. Documenting Endangered Languages with Linguist’s Assistant 107 LaNguagE DocumENtatIoN & coNSErvatIoN voL. These suggestions may serve as one source in the reviewer selection process at the Program Officer's discretion. Submission of the report via Research.gov constitutes certification by the PI that the contents of the report are accurate and complete. The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide to for the linguistic documentation of endangered language and knowledge. The title should describe the project in a concise, informative way so that a scientifically or technically literate reader could understand what the project is about. An award recipient must work full-time on the project and may not accept a teaching assignment or undertake any other major activity. In some instances, however, NSF will employ additional criteria as required to highlight the specific objectives of certain programs and activities. Since the discipline of linguistics is a responsibility both of the National Science Foundation and of the National Endowment for the Humanities, addressing the imminent loss of linguistic knowledge is a major concern and a priority for both agencies. Failure to provide full and complete information, however, may reduce the possibility of receiving an award. Reviewers will be informed that their unattributed reviews may be shared with other government agencies as specified in the solicitation. email: lchase@nsf.gov, Roberto Delgado - GEO, (202) 606-8478, Grants.gov provides an additional electronic capability to search for Federal government-wide grant opportunities. Over 30 projects worldwide will receive a total of nearly $4 million to help preserve examples of linguistic diversity The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have announced the award of ten fellowships and 24 institutional grants totaling $3.9 million in the agencies’ ongoing Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program… may also be included under "Other Supplementary Documents". Share. Roughly half of the world's seven thousand languages are endangered and at risk of extinction. Proposers are cautioned that only a Grants and Agreements Officer may make commitments, obligations or awards on behalf of NSF or authorize the expenditure of funds. In addition, the NSF Grants.gov Application Guide (see link in Section V.A) provides instructions regarding the technical preparation of proposals via Grants.gov. However, the DEL program does encourage investigators from Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP)-eligible institutions to submit either: Examples of collaborations with TCUP-eligible institutions may include: All DEL proposals will be accepted and processed by means of either the NSF FastLane system or Grants.gov. In addition, Program Officers may obtain comments from site visits before recommending final action on proposals. Documenting Endangered Languages Achievements and Perspectives. 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