About Kokodri 🐊

This is the alpha webpage for the Kokodri 🐊 project. Kokodri is an acronym formed from Kolèksyon kréyol - documentation, revitalization, investigation. Kokodri 🐊 is a long-term project to create an open-access, collaborative repository of Louisiana Creole which is accessible to scholars, language-learners, and members of the interested public. More detailed information and ideas can be found in this short presentation (15 June 2021).

At present Kokodri 🐊 includes a library of annotated texts and a reader tool which allows users to upload and annotate texts presented in the Dictionary orthography. These functionalities are built on a database of Louisiana Creole. In future, Kokodri 🐊 could include some more advanced text processing tools, e.g. concordance search across texts, cross-reference, lemmatization and part-of-speech tagging. The infrastructure would be designed so that new texts could be added to Kokodri 🐊 in plaintext format and then automatically analyzed, tokenized, tagged, lemmatized, etc. In this way, many texts could be submitted using one workflow with no need to create multiple standards or versions of the same texts.

Importantly, Kokodri 🐊 is intended to be a collective effort to make sources available and to create an open-access archive for future work. We envision this would include linguists, folklorists, language learners, creative writers, musicians and more. New functionalities and tools could be added over time, as requested by users. Texts, transcriptions and recordings could be cited as if they are 'published by' Kokodri 🐊 in the format

  Fieldworker. YYYY. Title (ID). Accessed through Kokodri at URL/ID

  Fortier, A. 1895. Néléphant avec baleine (FO T1). Accessed through Kokodri at URL/FO_T1

Get in touch

Currently this site is maintained by Dr Oliver Mayeux to whom any queries should be directed at

ofm23 аt cam dot аc dot uk

Our funders

Kokodri 🐊 has received support from the AHRC Impact Acceleration Account at the University of Cambridge and the Education and Research Fund at Trinity College, Cambridge.