Investigators on the ELIC project led two workshops at the University of Rijeka (June 12-16, 2023) and the University of Pula (June 19-20, 2023), in which team members discussed and refined the system of transcription and annotation used in the project and consulted with one another about the individual transcriptions that they were currently working on. Researchers and assistants are currently focused on processing Čakavian and Istro-Venetian interviews that have been recently collected. The transcription of Istro-Venetian poses special problems because of language variation and the lack of any established orthographic norms. Since the corpus will include audio, our goal is to use a systematic orthographic transcription that will be broadly acceptable to members of the local community, taking into account the variation in informal written usage. ELIC team members at lunch at the Filozofski fakultet in Rijeka (from left to right: Sarah Zancovich, Milena Korenika, Zvjezdana Vrzić, Keith Langston, Silvana Vranić, Andrea Car Avdagić, Matija Mužek, Ivan Miškulin)
