Richard Littauer is a PhD student in Computer Science at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington in Pōneke, Aotearoa New Zealand. His primary focus is understanding ecology and bird populations using computational modeling. His research interests beyond that involve open science, open source, community science platforms, and taxonomy.
As well, Richard is the Interim Executive Director for the GNOME Foundation, a nonprofit building a diverse and sustainable free software personal computing ecosystem. He is an organizer for SustainOSS, and has recorded hundreds of podcasts on open source sustainability there. He is also one of the two organizers of CURIOSS, the community for university and research institution open source program offices. He has been interested and involved in open source communities for decades.
In his spare time, he is a professional conlanger, creating languages for TV studios and novelists, an avid reader and hiker, and interested in civic, local action towards a more sustainable future. But really, he just likes birds.
You can read more about his projects at his website, https://burntfen.com, and follow him on http://richard.social.
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Publications
- Building a Linked Open Data Cloud of Linguistic Resources: Motivations and Developments
- On Tocharian Exceptionality to the centum-satem Isogloss
- Report on the Second Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2)
- Academic Research in the Blogosphere: Adapting to New Risks and Opportunities on the Internet
- Trends in Use of Scientific Workflows: Insights from a Public Repository and Guidelines for Best Practices.
- Replicating Oliphant's Saussurean Simulations
- Crowd Sourcing the Classroom: Interactive Applications in Higher Learning
- Open Source Code Serving Endangered Languages
- The Open Linguistics Working Group
- Re-dating the Loss of Laryngeal Air Sacs in Homo Sapiens
- Visualising Typological Relationships: Plotting WALS with Heat Maps
- A Reanalysis of Anatomical Changes for Language
- From the Savannah to the Cloud: Blogging Evolutionary Linguistics Research
- Linguistic Resources Enhanced with Geospatial Information
- Review of Harold F. Shiffman and Brian Spooner (Eds.), (2011). Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors. In: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages. Leiden: Brill.
- Review of F. Seifart, G. Haig, N. Himmelmann, D. Jung, A. Margetts, & P. Trilsbeek, eds., Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization. In: Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 3. Online: University of Hawai'i Press.
- The Evolution of Morphological Agreement
- Corrections for grammatical agreement in Ophiodermatidae
- Tristan Moorhen (Gallinula nesiotis), version 2.0
- Audio observation of a Wellington Tree Wētā Hemideina crassidens defense stridulation
- A nomenclatural issue related to Lopdells’ penguin Archaeospheniscus lopdelli
- First revision of karoro Larus dominicanus antipodum (Bruch, 1853)