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Below you will find links to useful and relevant articles, blog posts, lists of resources and repositories on remote data collection (currently in no particular order, but we are working on organising the materials better). We include both linguistically relevant and more general materials.

We will be updating the list regularly. Please let us know if we’ve missed something that should be added.

Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: Supervised data collection combining smartphone recordings and videoconferencing by Adrian Leemann, Péter Jeszenszky, Carina Steiner, Melanie Studerus and Jan Messerli (Linguistics Vanguard, September 2020)

How to collect language data remotely (Meridian Linguistics), blog post

Discussion on fieldwork at a distance by Linguistics in the Pub, a monthly gathering of linguists and language activists in Melbourne (May 2020)

Remote linguistic elicitation methods by Richard T. Griscom (ELAR blog, June 2020), blog post

Fieldwork in the time of COVID-19 with Guillem Belmar (Field Notes, April 2020), podcast

Remote fieldwork with Richard T. Griscom (Field Notes, June 2020), podcast

Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic, a crowd-sourced document edited by Deborah Lupton (May 2020)

The trials of global research under the coronavirus by Virginia Gewin (Nature, August 2020)

Data collection during social distancing by David Samuel Shiffman (American Scientist, April 2020)

Remote research methods to use during the COVID-19 pandemic by Kate Hawkins, Jessica Amegee and Rosie Steege (Arise, May 2020)

Tips for collecting primary data in a Covid-19 era by Fiona Samuels (Overseas Development Institute, June 2020)

Remote data collection resources, University of South Carolina

Remote research and data collection, Sheffield Hallam University

Remote data collection, University of Hull

Linguistic fieldwork: working with communities at a distance, with Emiliana Cruz (CIESAS-CDMX), Ruth Signer (University of Melbourne), Stephen Morey (La Trobe University, Claire Bowern, Yale University) (Abralin, July 2020)

software

Teamscope: secure (on- and offline) data collection management and visualization app. (Android and iOS)

KoboToolbox: open-source tool for mobile data collection and designing forms and (blocks of) questions. (Android and web)

Magpi: data collection and visualization software with possibility to add voice interaction so that literacy of subjects is not required. (Android and iOS)

Browser Based Experiements in Magpi: a Primer

Open Data Kit: data collection and management, multiple types of data in multiple languages. Produced two free and open-source tool suites (ODK and ODK-X),  the former lets you build offline forms and the latter helps you build custom apps for data gathering and visualization. (Android)

REDcap: web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. (Android, iOS and web)

JotForm: online form builder and data recording app (Jotforms mobile). (Android and iOS)

SurveyCTO: mobile data collection platform, highly secure. (Android and web)

CommCare: mobile data collection platform geared towards humanitarian data gathering. (Android and web)

 Talk2Me: publicly available software for performing cognitive tests, includes scoring functions for different tasks.

SDATS: application developed for linguists for the purpose of recording high quality audio while supervising participants(s) by videoconference. (Android)

Audacity: free multi-track audio recorder, works across platforms

LingSync: secure app for field linguistics in which speakers, linguists and learners can contribute remotely to one centralized database. (Android and web)

Online Linguistic Database: software for linguistic fieldwork. Collaboration, data sharing and documentation. (web)

LIG-Aikuma: Data collection app for language documentation. Recording, respeaking, translation and elicitation. (Android)

Pavlovia: behavioral experiments online

Labvanced: experiments online

Psytoolkit: extensive free toolkit for all sorts of data collection methods both offline and browser-based