Information Classification: CONTROLLED **Derivas Bledhynnyek 2022-23** Annual Report 2022-23 Information Classification: CONTROLLED ## **OVERVIEW** ## **Organisation type** CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 27 Nov 2019 ## **Charity Number** 1186610 ## **Charitable objects** TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CORNISH LANGUAGE BY: - A) DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING OF CORNISH LANGUAGE VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR AND PLACE NAMES. - B) DEVELOPING THE COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE CORNISH LANGUAGE AND MAKING THIS KNOWLEDGE PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE FOR USE BY SCHOOLS, PRE-SCHOOLS, ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES, EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS, RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS, AND ANYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN, OR IN LEARNING, THE CORNISH LANGUAGE. ## **How we have met that purpose** The Akademi Kernewek and its four Panels have met regularly through 2022/23 to develop its research work in support of development of the online Cornish dictionary and the Cornish place name database. The Akademi has focussed this year on improving the quality of data and consolidating resources. The Akademi further developed the Cornish dictionary app so that it is now available on Apple as well as Android devices, and further expanded information available in the Cornish place-name database. These tools both make the Cornish language more accessible and the Akademi Kernewek place name website is linked to teaching resources for primary schools to learn Cornish language. The Akademi is continuously reviewing how to coordinate Cornish language research, make the results of that research publicly accessible and how to develop effective new tools to enable more use of Cornish. The schedule below sets out the detailed achievements of the Akademi Kernewek in 2022/23. ## **Governance** The Akademi Kernewek is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) that is managed by a Board of Trustees who meet every two months. Four Panels (working groups), each with their own specialist function, meet more regularly and report their research work to the Board for approval. All work of the Akademi and minutes of meetings are published on the Akademi Kernewek website: Akademikernewek.org.uk ## **Finance and administration** Information Classification: CONTROLLED The research work of the Akademi Kernewek is done entirely by volunteers with the Cornish Language Office (CLO) providing in-kind administrative and technology support as part of its wider Cornish language programme eg enquiries and information from Cornish translations. As part of building the infrastructure for the Cornish language, the Cornish Language Office supported the following two projects which has used data from the Akademi and in turn helped disseminate Akademi Kernewek’s work: |elped disseminate Akademi Kernewek’s work:|| |---|---| |**Item**|**Cost to CLO**| |Dictionary database (inputting and editing), development of corpus search and
first phase development of language tech (spellchecker, thesaurus, verb
conjugator)|£2,500| |Bangor University dictionary development – website upgrades, iOS version of
dictionary app.|£1,000.00| |Total|£3,500.00| The Akademi Kernewek has no bank account and no assets other than intellectual property in its databases. The Akademi Kernewek will explore options for grant funding in 2023/4 and will open its own bank account if it secures funding with appropriate financial controls to be put in place. Information Classification: CONTROLLED ## **AKADEMI KERNEWEK – ANNUAL REPORT 2022-2023 – Schedule of work completed.** ## **AKADEMI KERNEWEK ANNUAL REPORT 22-23** ## **BOARD** |**AKADEMI KERNEWEK ANNUAL REPORT 22-23**
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**BOARD**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**OUTPUT**|**TASK**|**COMPLETION**
**DATE**|**Progress**| |||**The Akademi main process**||| ||Process|In 2022/23, the Akademi will focus
on improving the smooth-running of
the two main cycles:
•
New terms by Terminology
Panel > Additional research
where required by
Research Panel > Approval
by Board > Checking,
expanding entries and
inputting into online
dictionary by Dictionary
Panel.
Place Names > Approval by
Board and publication on
Akademi website.|Ongoing
May 2022|•
The 4 panels report to each Board meeting (every 2 months) but
there is still a need for more coordination, more information
sharing between panels and documenting of recommendations
and decisions.
•
The Terminology Panel meets frequently and is improving the
quality of reports to make inputting easier and the Research
Panel responds promptly and clearly to Panel requests.
•
Dictionary Panel - at present a panel member is reviewing the
whole dictionary database to apply SWF Review changes from
2014, make corrections including applying corrections from
proofreading by another Panel member and some
disambiguation. This will continue in 2023/4. Clear reports on
progress are made to the Board and proposals made to
Terminology and Research.
•
Place Names work is still reported to Board verbally with only
occasional documented reports but all work is published on the
website.| ||Metrics|•
Develop metrics for the
Akademi to demonstrate
progress (no.of new terms,
no. of subject areas, no.of
place names) and impact
(no of dictionary searches,
no of place name searches)|Jul 2022|Metrics agreed and figures for April 2022–March 2023 are:
1. Online dictionary: 936,917 searches (average 2,567 daily
searches)
2. Korpus Kernewek: 30,996 searches (average 85 daily searches)
3. Place names: 8,694 total database entries
4. Signage translations: 222 completed (average 19 per month)
New dictionary terms: 1,079 researched and approved The Akademi
website does not capture the number of searches made in the place
name database so this will not be used as metric until further investment
in the website.| |||||| Information Classification: CONTROLLED ## **Governance** |**Governance**|**Governance**|**Governance**|**Governance**|**Governance**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Policies|•
Annual review of
governance policies and
procedures|March 2023|Policies updated and published on AK website in March 2022 – no need
for change identified| ||Trustees|•
Review of Board
membership including skills
audit and appointment of
replacement/new Trustees
as appropriate|May 2022
Nov 2022|2022 review – one trustee renewed and one stood down
2023 review – MT, JL and PH – to be updated| ||Risk|•
Prepare risk management
policy|Mar 2023|To be actioned in 2023/4| |||||| ||**Standard Written Form (SWF)**|||| |||||| ||Hyphens|•
Completion of appendix to
specification: Hyphens|March 2023|Existing version of hyphen appendix published on AK website| ||Variants|•
Completion of appendix to
specification: Variants|March 2023|Existing version of Variant appendix published on AK website| ||User guide|•
Preparation and publication
of users guide to SWF|March 2023|To be actioned in 2023/4| ||Convergence|•
Develop proposals for
convergence of SWF M & L|March 2023|To be considered in 2023/4| |||||| ||**Dictionary and New Terms**|||| |||||| ||Disambiguation|•
Disambiguation of 90%
terms with duplicate entries
in the online dictionary to
clarify context/use|March 2023|Sections R-Z complete
Estimate 40% complete by Mar 23 with resource in place to continue in
2023/4| ||New terms|•
Expand number of terms in
the online dictionary by
researching failed searches
from the online dictionary,
terms used in translations
and research on specialist
topic areas by the
Terminology Panel. Target|March 2023|Hedging
36
Unsuccessful searches
495
Common words -E
501
Translation service
43
Various enquiries
5
Total new terms (by Aug 22) 1,080| Information Classification: CONTROLLED ||of 500 entries added to the
online dictionary||| |---|---|---|---| |Database|•
Clean existing dictionary
database files and ensure
compliance with 3rdEdition
of the SWF specification by
March 2023|Ongoing|Sections R-Z complete
Estimate 40% complete by Mar 23 with resource in place to continue in
2023/4| |**Place Names**|||| ||||| |Place names|•
Add translations for place
names and street names to
the Akademi Place Name
database – target 500 new
entries|March 2023|222 signage translations completed April 2022-March 2023.
200 may be a more realistic target if a similar number were completed in
2022/3. With over 8,000 place names now recorded in the database,
requests are for more obscure places which are more complex to
research.| |Gorsedh|•
Research place names for
the Gorsedh 2023 location|March 2023|Contents for 2023 Gorsedh place name booklet – Hayle – researched
andpublished.| |**Research**|||| ||||| |Gender suffixes|•
Publish advice on gender
suffixes for professions|July 2022|Complete – advice note published on AK website and neutral suffixes
applied to new terms.| |Pronouns|•
Publish issues paper on
gender-neutral pronouns|July 2022|Complete – research paper published on AK website| |Grammar.|•
The Akademi will research
and advise on grammar
enquiries from the
Translation Service and
keep under review the case
for a new Panel should the
number and complexity of
grammar issues warrant it.|March 2023|Few enquiries have been received and have been dealt with within the
existing AK processes. To be kept under review.| |**Language technology**|||| ||||| |Digital
framework|•
Contribute to the
development of a digital
framework for Kernewek by
the Cornish Language Lead
in partnership work with
Bangor University, the
Digital Skills Partnership|December
2022|•
Consultation with the Digital Skills Partnership has been
postponed to later in 2023 as considerable progress has been
made by the Akademi with the priority technology tools. The
digital framework will be updated to set out where progress has
been made and where key challenges remain in order to focus
discussions with the Partnership.| Information Classification: CONTROLLED ||and Software Cornwall.
The framework will be used
to support applications for
partner funding.||| |---|---|---|---| |Fuzzy search|Online dictionary – a) develop
fuzzy search and b) apply text
changes to website as advised
byTranslation Service|December
2022
July 2022|•
Fuzzy search will require development work by Bangor University
– AK to consider whether this is a priority in 2023/4.
•
Text changes applied to the dictionary website so that recurring
messages are now correct.| |Tech tools|•
Prioritise development of
the following tools in 2021-
25: dictionary app
(complete), verb conjugator,
a thesaurus, a parts of
speech tagger, and a
spellchecker|March 2023|•
Trial verb conjugator, thesaurus and spellchecker are in
development but will need considerable work in 2023/4 before
they can be published as AK resources.
•
No progress on parts of speech tagger and AK to review whether
this is still a priority in 2023/4 in the context of changing
technology.| |**Communications**|||| |Website|•
The Akademi will publish all
its work on the AK website.|Ongoing|The website provides the online dictionary, corpus search, place name
database, AK policies and details of all Board meetings. It is now a very
rich resource but at some point will need a redesign to consolidate the
site and make it more user friendly with the site led by resources rather
than AK process.| |Conference|Host the Skians 2022 Cornish
language research conference
together with the University of
Exeter|Oct 2022|The Skians Conference was held at the University of Exeter on 1 Oct 22
with 8 speakers and 40 attendees. Details of the conference were
published on the Skians website
And 5 of the talks were published on the Akademi Youtube channel| |Lecture series|•
Hosting and publish one
online talk related to a
subject researched by the
Terminology Panel.|March 2023|No technical lectures were hosted by the Akademi as the focus was on
the Conference.| |Social media|•
Work with Rosweyth
(Speak Cornish) to
publicise the work of the
Akademi and its resources|Ongoing|Skians conference advertised on social media with 5 talks published on
AK youtube channel – 45 views. Tweets on Cornish Language Office
about the online dictionary and corpus search viewed over 1200 times
with 60 engagements.| |**Partnership & Higher Education**|||| Information Classification: CONTROLLED |University|•
Working in partnership with
the University of Exeter to
support the delivery of
Cornish language research
and teaching, and
contribution of the Cornish
language community to
wider Cornish studies.|Ongoing|There is good on-going contact and discussions with the Institute of
Cornish Studies, which hosted the Skians Conference, and with the
language unit on the Penryn Campus.| |---|---|---|---| |Course|•
A taught Cornish language
intermediate module for
undergraduates at the
Penryn Campus from
September 2022|Sept 2022|No students enrolled in 2022 for the beginners or intermediate course in
2022. The University will offer the beginners course again in 2023 but
the University is also considering other options for teaching Cornish that
would better suit student demand., eg. as part of an MA and/or a summer
school.| |Research|A research programme at the
Institute of Cornish studies,
including socio-linguistic
research.|Ongoing
Mar 2022|The research programme includes history of the language, barriers to
use and learning of the language and linguistic research into use of
dialect and links with Kernewek.| |||||