The Dialect of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (DHIL) Corpus – Access Request Form

The corpus of the Holy Island dialect can be accessed through the DECTE website on submission of this user access request form. Conditions of use are specified in full below, but N.B. the following points in particular. Only requests from bona fide users will be accepted. No permission will be given for commercial use of the corpus or for publication of the corpus in any other format. Once your application has been accepted, you will be issued with a password giving you access to the corpus. You must not share this password with others and you must not make copies of the data for anyone else. Nor may you make any part of the corpus public in any way (except for short transcription samples in published academic papers as required by any analysis you conduct; in order to do so, you must receive further permission from Dr Warren Maguire – see below).

The purposes of this user access form include the following:

1)  To protect the speakers in the corpus. In signing this user agreement, you are agreeing not to use the corpus in any way which could harm the speakers in the corpus or their memory (many of them having now passed away).

2)  To protect the Holy Island community and the relatives of the speakers in the corpus. In signing this agreement, you are agreeing not to use the corpus in any way which could harm the Holy Island community or the relatives of the speakers in the corpus.

3)  To protect the researchers and institutions which have been involved in making this corpus available to other users (in particular, Dr Warren Maguire, Prof Karen Corrigan, Dr Adam Mearns, Dr Hermann Moisl, the British Academy, The Arts and Humanities Research Council, the University of Edinburgh, and Newcastle University). In signing this agreement, you are agreeing that the researchers and institutions involved in making this corpus available are not liable in any way for harm caused to you, to the speakers in the corpus, to the relatives of these speakers, or to the Holy Island community by the content of the corpus (which have been carefully edited to remove sensitive material). Furthermore, you agree that the researchers and institutions involved in making this corpus available are not responsible in any way for illegitimate use of the corpus, nor are they responsible for making the corpus available to you in any other way.

N.B. If you wish to publish any analysis or account of the data contained in the corpus, on whatever topic, in an academic publication or otherwise, you must first seek further permission to do so from Warren Maguire, University of Edinburgh. In particular, Warren Maguire is currently analysing the phonetics and phonology of the dialect of Holy Island as revealed in this corpus and reserves the right to do so exclusively until the end of 2017. Even after that date you must seek permission from Warren Maguire to publish any analysis based on the data in this corpus.

Please return this form, with the required information added, to Warren Maguire at or by post to:

The Dialect of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne corpus, Warren Maguire, The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, EH8 9AD.

N.B. A careful record will be kept of all those who receive a password to obtain access to the corpus.

NAME:

SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OR LABORATORY NAME (if applicable):

UNIVERSITY OR ORGANIZATION (if applicable):

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PLEASE EXPLAIN THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE NECTE DATA IS SOUGHT:

I, ______('THE USER'), hereby request permission to receive a password in order to download (for bona fide purposes) the text and sound files of the Dialect of the Holy Island of Lindisfarne (DHIL) corpus, funded by the British Academy (award no: SG112357).

I agree by this request to adhere to the following conditions of use:

1. THE USER acknowledges that DHIL is subject to copyright restrictions and agrees to abide by them. DHIL is copyrighted in its entirety by Warren Maguire (P.I. of the BA-funded project). Permission from the copyright holder must be obtained before any part of DHIL is reproduced in any form. THE USER acknowledges that violations of copyright restrictions may result in legal liability.

2. THE USER agrees to notify all associates who access the downloaded copy of DHIL of the copyright restrictions and of their obligation to respect the provisions of this agreement as additional users.

3. THE USER will make no commercial use of DHIL.

4. THE USER of DHIL will obtain the data either for private scholarly research, or for: (i) Scholarly research conducted within a research group; (ii) Teaching purposes: Pre-third level and third level teachers/lecturers/faculty who abide by the above rules are welcome to use the programmes and the database freely in their classes and teaching, providing they have sought permission to become a member of the DHIL user group via the access form; (iii) Members of the public who have a genuine interest in local culture/dialect/history are also permitted access to the corpus for private research, providing they have sought permission to become a member of the DHIL user group via the access form.

5. THE USER will not redistribute DHIL to others except in limited extracts under the normal standards of scholarly citation (considered to come under «fair use» provisions) without first obtaining the written permission of the copyright holder. In all cases, THE USER should discuss possible use of limited extracts under the normal standards of scholarly citation with Warren Maguire.

6. THE USER will not disclose to others the instructions for downloading the corpus files.

7. THE USER will acknowledge DHIL in any written work or oral presentation based on research using these materials.

8. THE USER acknowledges that the creators and distributors of DHIL make no warranties, express or implied, concerning DHIL, including but not limited to their ownership, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. The creators and distributors shall not be liable for any direct, consequential, punitive or other damages suffered by THE USER or any other person resulting from the use of the distributed materials.

9. THE USER shall read the relevant sections of the DHIL manual describing the data that was enhanced during this project. These sections detail important aspects of the data that may impact upon conclusions based on them.

10. THE USER shall read the relevant section of the DHIL manual relating to the project’s Code of Ethics and agrees to abide by this code.

11. THE USER shall notify Warren Maguire () should they notice errors in data content or should they notice any technical errors with the data programmes.

12. THE USER accepts the conditions set out in the Arts and Humanities Data Service Terms and Conditions. In the event of differences between these and (1-11) above, the more restrictive shall apply.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. THE DHIL PROJECT COMPILERS, PROGRAMMERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND AUTHORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DATABASE AND ITS PROGRAMS HAVE USED THEIR BEST EFFORTS IN PREPARING THE PROGRAMS, RECORDS, AND ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION. THESE EFFORTS INCLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH AND TESTING OF THE PROGRAMS TO DETERMINE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS. THE DHIL PROJECT AND THE COMPILERS, PROGRAMMERS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND AUTHORS MAKE NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO THE PROGRAMS, RECORDS, AND ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION AND ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR APPLICATION. THE USER OF DHIL, THEREFORE, EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT USE OF THE CORPUS IS AT ITS SOLE RISK. THE CORPUS AND RELATED DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND THE LICENSOR EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES (I) OF COMMERCIAL UTILITY OR (II) OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE LICENSOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE CORPUS WILL MEET THE USER'S REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT THE CORPUS WILL BE ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE CORPUS WILL BE CORRECTED. FURTHERMORE, THE LICENSOR DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE CORPUS OR RELATED DOCUMENTATION IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY THE LICENSOR OR THE LICENSOR'S AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY OR IN ANY WAY INCREASE THE SCOPE OF THIS WARRANTY. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO THE USER. THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY CONSTITUTES AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE CONDITIONS OF USE OF THE CORPUS.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY, TORT, CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL LICENSOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE CORPUS OR RELATED DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF THE LICENSOR OR THE LICENSOR'S AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO THESE CONDITIONS OF USE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LICENSOR'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO THE USER FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY THE LICENSEE FOR THE CORPUS.