1. the CIEL Academic Programme, an programme of training in endangered languages documentation, description and preservation/promotion, both for members of the speech communities and other Caribbean persons, as part of a process of capacity building in this field,
2. the CIEL Research Programme, a research programme on Caribbean indigenous endangered languages, conducted by academics involved in ‘(i)’ and the research students who they supervise as part of that programme, and
3. the CIEL Digital Archive which would include language and language related material which form the output of (i) and (ii), so organised and stored that it is accessible to both members of the endangered language communities and academic linguists, forming the basis for collaboration across these normally separate groups in the tasks of documentation, description and promotion.

1. An MA Programme in the Documentation and Preservation of Endangered Languages by way of Distance Teaching, and aimed in part at speakers of endangered languages and/or members of communities in which endangered languages are spoken. The idea would be to equip persons with the skills necessary both to document endangered languages, notably by collecting language data through interviews, doing elementary analyses of these languages in the areas of their lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse, and apply their analyses to solving community language problems in the areas of orthography, lexical expansion and the development of teaching materials. Material generated by students would be included in the web based CIEL Digital Archive outlined in 3) below
2. A PhD programme in Field Linguistics, with the focus on documenting and analysing the endangered languages of the Caribbean, providing them with modern and linguistically insightful descriptions.

1. set the priorities for indigenous language documentation in the Caribbean,
2. pursue a research programme to fully document all of the indigenous languages of the region and the social and cultural contexts within which they are or have been used,
3. encourage and research language revitalisation projects,
4. supervise the postgraduate research projects of research students in the academic programme presented in the previous section,
5. produce material which would become part of the CIEL Digital Archive to be discussed in the next section, and
6. work to publish and disseminate the findings of the research on Caribbean indigenous languages.

1. create a large and easily accessible body data for speakers of these endangered languages as well as international scholars of these languages, allowing them to know quickly what work was being done on which language, who was working on them and what progress had been made, thus avoiding duplication of research effort,
2. construct a repository of indigenous culture and knowledge stored and transmitted by these indigenous languages,
3. quicken the speed with which research focuses on a particular language and proceeds to scientifically document and describe it,
4. give impetus to members of communities of Caribbean indigenous endangered languages to take part in the work being done and to expand the work done so as to protect and promote these languages

The archive would be established at the University of the West Indies, as part of an international network of digital language archives. It would function as the prime resource for indigenous language and culture documentation and description in the Caribbean. It would archive the field data and research results of the studies of endangered languages carried out by professional researchers, research students and groups who become part of the broader CIEL project, as well as by others who make their material available for archiving.

The archive would be supported by a metadata catalogue and an interactive web-based interface and contain a wide range of materials, including books, articles, fieldwork notes, analyses, audio tapes, CDs, videos and photographs - mostly stored in digital form.

Access to individual items within the archive will be allowed on conditions laid down by the depositor as well as those persons who have been the subject of recording or videotaping. Where any item stored in the archive is distributed, speakers and performers will have their moral rights asserted and maintained.

The archive would serve as an excellent resource for linguists as well as those working in related fields, e.g. anthropologists looking at cultures and stories, phoneticians studying sounds and others active in various branches of arts and humanities.

In addition to taking part in the Open Language Archives Community (www.language-archives.org), CIEL Archive will seek to become a member of the Digital Endangered Languages Archives Network (DELAN). By way of this link, we hope to work closely with the DoBeS archive at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (www.mpi.nl/DOBES), the Archive for the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas (www.ailla.org/site/ welcome.htm) and the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures in Australia (http://rspas.anu.edu. au/paradisec/).