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Chapter 10. ColCat

A color categorization digital archive and research wiki
  • Kimberly A. Jameson
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Progress in Colour Studies
This chapter is in the book Progress in Colour Studies

Abstract

The ColCat Wiki (http://colcat.calit2.uci.edu/) is a multidisciplinary research platform featuring a new corpus of color categorization survey data from a variety of languages and language dialects. The Wiki’s contents can be examined, searched, downloaded and extended through non-commercial scientific investigations of human color categorization behaviors across ethnolinguistic groups. Launched in 2016 to make available unpublished raw data from Robert E. MacLaury’s color categorization archive, the ColCat database and its Wiki interface continues to grow and evolve as a public-access teaching and research platform for collaborative scientific investigations on color categorization behaviors. The ultimate aim of the ColCat Wiki is to serve as a repository of color categorization data and a collaborative workspace. This article summarizes properties of the wiki and its data, including database features that permit novel empirical research in the domain of global color categorization.

Abstract

The ColCat Wiki (http://colcat.calit2.uci.edu/) is a multidisciplinary research platform featuring a new corpus of color categorization survey data from a variety of languages and language dialects. The Wiki’s contents can be examined, searched, downloaded and extended through non-commercial scientific investigations of human color categorization behaviors across ethnolinguistic groups. Launched in 2016 to make available unpublished raw data from Robert E. MacLaury’s color categorization archive, the ColCat database and its Wiki interface continues to grow and evolve as a public-access teaching and research platform for collaborative scientific investigations on color categorization behaviors. The ultimate aim of the ColCat Wiki is to serve as a repository of color categorization data and a collaborative workspace. This article summarizes properties of the wiki and its data, including database features that permit novel empirical research in the domain of global color categorization.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface x
  4. Contributors xii
  5. Abbreviations xviii
  6. Emeritus Professor Christian J. Kay 1940–2016 xx
  7. Section 1. Colour perception and cognition
  8. Chapter 1. The colours and the spectrum 5
  9. Chapter 2. Ensemble perception of colour 23
  10. Chapter 3. The role of saturation in colour naming and colour appearance 41
  11. Chapter 4. Spanish basic colour categories are 11 or 12 depending on the dialect 59
  12. Chapter 5. Diatopic variation in the referential meaning of the “Italian blues” 83
  13. Chapter 6. A Color Inference Framework 107
  14. Chapter 7. Kandinsky’s colour-form correspondence theory 123
  15. Chapter 8. Cross-modal associations involving colour and touch 147
  16. Section 2. The language of colour
  17. Chapter 9. Is it all guesswork? 167
  18. Chapter 10. ColCat 179
  19. Chapter 11. Unifying research on colour and emotion 209
  20. Chapter 12. Divergence and shared conceptual organization 223
  21. Chapter 13. Colour and ideology 241
  22. Chapter 14. B lack and white linguistic category entrenchment in English 269
  23. Chapter 15. Colour terms in the blue area among Estonian-Russian and Russian-Estonian bilinguals 285
  24. Chapter 16. The journey of the “apple from China” 301
  25. Section 3. The diversity of colour
  26. Chapter 17. A theory of visual stress and its application to the use of coloured filters for reading 319
  27. Chapter 18. Does deuteranomaly place children at a disadvantage in educational settings? 341
  28. Chapter 19. Common basis for colour and light studies 357
  29. Chapter 20. Identifying colour use and knowledge in textile design practice 371
  30. Chapter 21. An empirical study on fabric image retrieval with multispectral images using colour and pattern features 391
  31. Chapter 22. The effects of correlated colour temperature on wayfinding performance and emotional reactions 405
  32. Chapter 23. Colour in the Pompeiian cityscape 419
  33. Chapter 24. Mapping the Antarctic 441
  34. Subject index 463
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