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ABSTRACT
Studies of human spatial behavior increasingly rely on a combination of audiovisual and geospatial recordings. So far, however, few analytical environments have offered opportunities for integrated and expedient annotation and analysis of the two. Here we report the first study aimed at integrating geospatial data in an environment developed for time-aligned annotation of audiovisual media. By calibrating the audiovisual and geospatial signals on the timeline and inserting the geo data as a tier in the annotation tool ELAN, we innovatively generate an environment in which time-aligned annotations of audiovisually observed behavior can be linked and explored in relation to the corresponding geographical coordinates. We illustrate the technique with cultural and linguistic behavior recorded on the move among indigenous communities in Southeast Asia. Our methodological principle is of potential interest to any study or discipline concerned with linking the location and properties of observable behavior.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Assoc. Prof. Hajjah Rogayah A. Razak and Prof. Ulung Datuk Dr. Shamsul Amri Baharuddin, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Putrajaya; the Department of Orang Asli Development, Kuala Lumpur; the Lund University Humanities Lab; and the Penan, Jahai and Semelai communities.
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The authors declare no competing interests.
Notes
4. To revisit data collected with a traditional video camera and a dedicated GPS device, careful calibration, such as identifying shared locations, can be employed with similar results.
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Jens Larsson
Jens Larsson, MA, is Research Engineer at the Lund University Humanities Lab. He specializes in techniques of collection, management, and archiving of endangered languages data.
Niclas Burenhult
Niclas Burenhult is Assoc. Prof. of General Linguistics at Lund U. His research interests include the relationship between language, culture and cognition; spatial semantics; and language documentation.
Nicole Kruspe
Nicole Kruspe is a researcher in linguistics at Lund U. Her research focuses on the documentation and description of the Austroasiatic languages of Southeast Asia.
Ross S. Purves
Ross S. Purves teaches and researches in the Department of Geography at the U. of Zurich. His interests include the use of language to better understand geography, and finding ways to incorporate the diversity of ways of thinking about space into geographical information systems.
Mikael Rothstein
Mikael Rothstein is Assoc. Prof. of Comparative Religion and Research Professor at the U. of Southern Denmark. His main research interests are religion among hunter-gatherers, religious emergence and innovation, and archaeology and religion.
Peter Sercombe
Peter Sercombe is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle U., UK. His research interests include sociolinguistics in relation to Austronesian languages, particularly effects of language contact.