California Language Archive
Repository at UC Berkeley housing the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Catalog searchable; item access varies by depositor restriction.
cla.berkeley.edu
Resources
Resources
A directory of work that is not ours. Each entry names what it is for and where the authoritative source is. Verify anything here before acting on it — programs open and close, and eligibility rules change.
California archives
Where California language material is held
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Recorded and physical collections that do not fully overlap with the language archive.
hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu
Endangered Languages Archive
International digital repository with a developed access-protocol model worth studying independently of its holdings.
elararchive.org
Organizations
Doing the language work itself
Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
Long-running organization associated with the Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program.
aicls.org
Breath of Life workshops
Workshop tradition connecting community researchers with archival collections and linguists.
verify current organizers and schedule directly
Documentation tools
Software language programs already use
ELAN
Time-aligned multi-tier annotation, from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Tierline's primary export target.
archive.mpi.nl
Praat
Acoustic phonetic analysis; TextGrid is Tierline's second export target.
praat.org
FieldWorks Language Explorer
Lexicon and interlinear text management, where dictionary and grammar work happens.
software.sil.org
Indigenous data governance
Frameworks this design draws on
CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance
Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics. The people-and-purpose counterpart to the FAIR principles.
gida-global.org · source [10]
Mukurtu CMS
Protocol-based access control that goes well beyond a public/private flag — the closest existing analogue to Tierline's policy engine.
mukurtu.org · source [11]
Local Contexts — TK Labels
Community-applied provenance and protocol labels. Only communities can apply their own Labels.
localcontexts.org · source [12]
OCAP principles
Ownership, Control, Access, Possession — developed in the First Nations context in Canada, and worth reading alongside CARE.
fnigc.ca
Public benchmark data
The corpus behind Tierline’s public-data protocol
MLCommons Multilingual Spoken Words Corpus
CC-BY-4.0 spoken-keyword corpus. Tierline’s public-data benchmark protocol draws five languages from it to build an engineering stress test of the retrieval mechanism across languages. The held-out evaluation on Evaluation uses other speech collections.
mlcommons.org · source [16]
Funding
Potential funding programs for community-led language work
Tierline has received none of this funding. Availability was re-checked against official sources on September 8, 2026; eligibility and deadlines can change, so verify again before applying.
Administration for Native Americans — Native Language Preservation & Maintenance
The 2026 application window closed August 7, 2026. Watch the official ANA funding page for the next notice.
acf.hhs.gov · checked 2026-09-08
IMLS Native American Library Services — Basic and Enhancement Grants
FY2027 applications are currently listed with a November 13, 2026 deadline. Basic grants are listed at $6,000–$10,000; Enhancement grants at $50,000–$150,000.
imls.gov · checked 2026-09-08
NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure — Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL)
The NSF program page currently says it is waiting for a new publication rather than listing an open deadline.
nsf.gov · checked 2026-09-08