Valuing technology: Finding the linguist’s place in a new technological universe

The focus of this paper is on the relationship between technology and language documentation and description. It is largely inspired by Bird and Simons (2003), or more specifically, section 4 of that paper (Bird and Simons 2003:570–2), where they suggest a general model for developing recommendations for the use of technology in the creation of linguistic resources—which I term the values-desiderata-recommendations model. Unlike Bird and Simons (2003), however, my primary goal is not to use that model to generate a set of so-called best-practice recommendations for linguistic resources. Rather, I seek to expand upon the conceptual foundations and assumptions of the model so that its general