Information Classification: CONTROLLED ## **Akademi Kernewek: Towl Ober /** Work Plan **2023-24** ## **Derivas penn an vledhen** / End of year report |**Task**|**Output**|**Completion**
**date**|| |---|---|---|---| |**The Akademi main process**|||| |In 2023/24, the Akademi will continue to 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.|Clear reports to Board from
each Panel summarising
work completed with
supporting evidence and
clear recommendations|Ongoing|Panel updates are being made
verbally at Board with Terminology
providing regular reports for Board
approval. Worklow and reporting
needs to improve in 2024/25 to
allow for parts of lists to be
approved instead of delaying
approval for 100% of content to be
approved.| |•
Monitor and publish the following outputs: research (no.of new
terms, no.of place names) and impact (no of dictionary
searches, no of corpus searches, no of segments in corpus
search)|Annual report of metrics|April 24|Table of metrics for 23/24
presented to Board in April 24 – for
publication on AK website| ||||| |**Governance**|||| |•
Annual review of governance policies and procedures|Revised governance pack
published on AK website|March 2024|Constitution updated in line with
Charities Commission guidance| |•
Review of Board membership including skills audit and
appointment of replacement/new Trustees as appropriate|Renew/replace 5 Trustees|March 2024|Skills audit completed but not
reported to Board for full
discussion.
New trustees need to be found in
24/25 workplan| |•
Prepare risk management policy|Policy agreed by Board||Not completed but will be part of
24/25 workplan.| ||||| |**SWF**|||| |•
Completion of appendix to specification: Hyphens|Publication online|Jul 2023|Draft report to Board in May 2023
Revised draft approved by Board in| Information Classification: CONTROLLED ||||July 2023 and published on website| |---|---|---|---| |•
Preparation and publication of users guide to SWF|Publication online||Not progressed – carry forward to
2024/25 workplan| |•
Develop proposals for convergence of SWF M & L|Approach agreed by Board||Not progressed – carry forward to
2024/25 workplan.| ||||| |**Dictionary and New Terms**|||| |•
Disambiguation of terms with duplicate entries in the online
dictionary to clarify context/use|90% duplicate entries
disambiguated|March 2024|Sections P-F complete / 14,000 out
of 25,000 entries complete (57%)
at Mar 24 (G-O remain)| |•
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 of 500 entries added to the
online dictionary|500+ new terms added to the
online dictionary|March 2024|1820 new terms added| |•
Clean existing dictionary database files and ensure
compliance with 3rdEdition of the SWF specification by March
2024|**KEY PRIORITY**|Ongoing|Sections P-F complete / 14,000 out
of 25,000 entries complete (57%)
at Mar 24(G-O remain)| ||||| ||||| |**Place Names**|||| |•
Add translations for place names and street names to the
Akademi Place Name database|200 place names and street
names added to database|March 2024|262 place names and street names
researched and added| |•
Research place names for the Gorsedh 2024 location|Draft contents for Gorsedh
place name booklet|March 2024|Content for Callington Gorsedh
complete| |**Research**|||| |•
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.|Review queries and draft
Panel remit if new Panel
required.|March 2024|No enquiries logged for research.| |**Digital**|||| |•
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 and
Software Cornwall. The framework will be used to support
applications for partner funding.|Review 2022 draft framework
in light of Akademi work in
2022/3 and meet partners in
Autumn 2023|March 2024|Meeting held with Bangor Uni in
November 2023 – framework needs
to be reviewed to recognise
progress and new opportunities.| |•
Online dictionary – develop fuzzy search|Fuzzy search enabled|2024/5|For 2024/25 workplan| |•
Prioritise development of the following tools in 2021-25:
dictionary app (complete), verb conjugator, a thesaurus, a|Develop a spellchecker for
Cornish|March 2024|SH spellchecker (for cut and paste)
published online,and aplugin| Information Classification: CONTROLLED |parts of speech tagger, and a spellchecker|||spellchecker for download
developed by Steve Duncan
published online 2023. No
progress on other tools.| |---|---|---|---| |**Communications**|||| |•
Host the Skians 2024 Cornish language research conference
together with the University of Exeter|Call for papers
Conference|May 2024
Oct 2024|For 2024/25 workplan| |•
Hosting and publish one online talk related to a subject
researched by the Terminology Panel.|Publish one online technical
lecture on youtube|June 2023|Lecture on Birds by Davyth Fear on
27 June – attended by 10 people
and published youtube| |•
Work with Rosweyth (Speak Cornish) to publicise the work of
the Akademi and its resources||Ongoing|Corpus search and dictionary app
were promoted as part of Speak
Cornish Week and place names
database promoted as part of
GoCornish in schools| |**Higher Education**|||| |•
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|The Institute of Cornish Studies
provides Cornish language
research and teaching and will be
reviewing progress against the
Cornish Language Strategy in
2024.| |•
A taught Cornish language intermediate module for
undergraduates at the Penryn Campus|Taught module commences|Sept 2024|The intermediate module was
offered but no students enrolled.
The University is considering
whether an MA might work better
as part of a Cornish Studies
package rather than undergraduate
modules but in the meantime
provides evening classes for the
community which are very popular.| |•
A research programme at the Institute of Cornish studies,
including socio-linguistic research.|Developing research
programme
Cornish dialect research|Ongoing
Mar 2024|The Institute of Cornish Studies has
been commissioned to review
progress against the 10 year
Cornish Language Strategy – to
report back in Oct 2024 – and a
report on Cornish language
education inschools.| Information Classification: CONTROLLED ## Other potential future projects: - Take part in one partner project – this could be a student placement from a University, or contributing to a research or community project - Finance – a) explore options for non-CC funding. This could be a specific funded project to start with for 24/25, with a view to building up income over time. B) review whether the AK should have a bank account, treasurer, etc. - Link Place Name database to Heritage Gateway/Historic Environment Register - Corpus search – add more texts to increase quantity and diversity of content – for public use and as a building block to machine translation - Place name database – add Gover notes - List of personal names