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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment
Edited by Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke
[Handbook of Pragmatics 25] 2022
► pp. 3–19

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Working with language data

Practical, technical and scientific considerations

 | University of Tartu
 | University of Eastern Finland
Published online: 18 November 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.25.wor3
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Important concepts
    • 2.1Data and metadata
    • 2.2Legal aspects
    • 2.3Ethical aspects
    • 2.4Data formats
    • 2.5Versioning
    • 2.6Digitization
    • 2.7Archiving
    • 2.8Discoverability
    • 2.9Reproducibility
    • 2.10Citation
  • 3.Summary of recommendations
  • 4.Research history
  • 5.Further reading
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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