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Mark Turin
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Latest papers
Multi-hazard susceptibility and exposure assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya.
The Science of the total environment · 2022
Latest funding
- $54,234
Implementing relational lexicography in four Indigenous language dictionaries
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $1,065,000
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $713,000
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
1 publications.
Multi-hazard susceptibility and exposure assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya.
Rusk J, Maharjan A, Tiwari P, Chen TK, Shneiderman S, Turin M, Seto KC
Implementing relational lexicography in four Indigenous language dictionaries
Principal investigators: Turin, Mark
Keywords: Dictionary Making; Indigenous Languages; Collaboration; Canada; Nepal; Papua New Guinea; Lexicography
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
Keywords: literacy; reading; language learning; culture; technology; new media; behaviour; neuroimaging; computational modeling; Indigenous; immigrant; Canada's official languages
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
Keywords: literacy; reading; language learning; culture; technology; new media; behaviour; neuroimaging; computational modeling; Indigenous; immigrant; Canada's official languages
Relational Lexicography: New Approaches to Community-Informed Dictionary Work
Principal investigators: Turin, Mark
Keywords: (1) Dictionary Making; (2) Indigenous Languages; (3) Collaboration; (4) Canada; (5) Lexicography
Shadpa: The Collaborative Documentation of an Endangered Tibetan Oral Tradition
Principal investigators: Turin, Mark
Keywords: documentation; preservation; oral tradition; Tibetan language
EMERGING TECH. - Ethnoscape: digital heritage access for language and culture in First Nations communities
Principal investigators: Turin, Mark
First Nations languages in the twenty-first century: looking back, looking forward
Keywords: First Nations language revitalization; First Nations language documentation; youth; indigenous knowledge
Trust and digital records in an increasingly networked society
Keywords: trust; digital records; big data; online records; digital environment; public records; cloud computing; social media; networked communication; privacy; access; secrecy; right to be forgotten; right to know; digital recordkeeping; digital preservation
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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