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Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc 2021 (open access)

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc 2021

Conference proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021. It includes 14 peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the workshop and an introduction from the workshop organizers.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on legal and privacy implications for language archives captions transcript

Speech on legal and privacy implications for language archives

Video recording of a discussion in which attendees legal and privacy implications for language archives. This was part of an afternoon session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Wasson, Christina & Wolfson, Stephen
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archives: Perspectives from Three Scholars of Tibeto-Burman

Presentation on the author's interviews with three scholars of Bodish languages about their experiences, materials, and preservation plans and their reflections on language archives, particularly in regards to accessibility and usability for pedagogy. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Hildebrandt, Kristine
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on developing infrastructure for interoperating digital language archives captions transcript

Speech on developing infrastructure for interoperating digital language archives

Video recording of the second keynote session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. In this session, the presenter Gary F. Simons explores strategies of concerns and automation of services in developing an infrastructure for interoperation.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Simons, Gary F. & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India (open access)

Challenges to Representing Personal Names and Language Names in Language Archives: Examples from Northeast India

Article reviewing one particular challenge to data management relevant to South Asia, which is the complexity of names (of individuals, groups, and languages). It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives (open access)

Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

This is the hierarchical coding scheme used for qualitative analysis of interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: June 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
User needs in language archives: Findings from interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users (open access)

User needs in language archives: Findings from interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users

This article is an exploratory study providing empirical data on language archive user needs and supports some anecdotal evidence of known issues facing language archive end-users, depositors, and managers in primarily academic contexts.
Date: April 2022
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing Infrastructure for a Computational Resource for South Asian Languages 5

Presentation slides for the introduction of the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 5th Annual Planning Meeting which focused on increasing engagement with CoRSAL through social media.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
CoRSAL 5th Annual Planning Meeting captions transcript

CoRSAL 5th Annual Planning Meeting

Video recording of Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 5th Annual Planning Meeting which focused on increasing engagement with CoRSAL through social media.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
CoRSAL 6th Annual Planning Meeting captions transcript

CoRSAL 6th Annual Planning Meeting

Video recording of Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 6th Annual Planning Meeting which focused on collecting, organizing, and archiving materials for dictionaries.
Date: September 30, 2022
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Presentation describing the ongoing CoRSAL (Computational Resource for South Asian Languages) project, including background on the UNT Digital Library infrastructure and metadata schema, specific fields that have presented issues or areas of discussion for language data records (language, creator/contributor, and relation), and final conclusions about the collaboration so far.
Date: September 30, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks (open access)

STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks

This paper describes the use of Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns by designing tasks that are compelling to speech and natural language processing researchers while addressing technical challenges in language documentation and exploiting growing archives of endangered language data.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Levow, Gina-Anne; Bender, Emily M.; Littell, Patrick; Howell, Kristen; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Crowgey, Joshua et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speeches on language resources for endangered languages captions transcript

Speeches on language resources for endangered languages

Video of the speakers in the morning session of the 2018 CoRSAL Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for a Computational Resource on South Asian Languages. The presenters detailed what language resources currently exist, their strengths and weaknesses, and what languages still require more documentation and archiving.
Date: November 1, 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on scalable academic service(s) for complexity, collaboration, & community in the digital era captions transcript

Speech on scalable academic service(s) for complexity, collaboration, & community in the digital era

Video recording of the first keynote session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. In this session, the presenter explores how new digitally enabled approaches to service offer new possibilities in research and publication.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Germano, David & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

A partial example of a Data Management Plan, with post-project comments

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an example of a data management plan for a linguistics archiving project.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: de Reuse, Willem
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork (open access)

Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork

Book chapter defining descriptive linguistic fieldwork, explores tasks that fall under this definition, outlines goals of descriptive linguistic fieldwork, and identifies aspirations and limitations of linguistic fieldworkers.
Date: 2011
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & de Reuse, Willem
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America captions transcript

Speech on Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

Video recording of a presentation discussing the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin American project. This presentation was part of an afternoon session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Kung, Susan Smythe & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on existing (and potential) language and linguistic resources on South Asian languages captions transcript

Speech on existing (and potential) language and linguistic resources on South Asian languages

Video recording of a presentation discussing existing resources and further questions to be asked, with a particular emphasis on Pakistani languages. This presentation was part of an afternoon session at the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Bashir, Elena & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archive and database architecture and usability

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses the use of a database for language archiving through the example of Himalayan Tibeto-Burman languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Caplow, Nancy J.; Khular, Sumshot & Willis Oko, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Harmonized Annotation and Data Formats

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation asks the authors various questions regarding harmonized annotation and data.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Simons, Gary F.; Aristar-Dry, Helen; Palmer, Alexis & Kung, Susan Smythe
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

A View from CL/NLP

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an overview of the data structures needed for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Palmer, Alexis
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Documenting Kashmir's Conflict History: Kashmir Oral History project

Presentation that focuses on a collaborative project that aims to document, archive, and preserve narratives of personal experiences and living memories of events related to the armed conflict of Kashmir circa 1989-90 and to help preserve the factual integrity of Kashmir's contested past in the last few decades against attempts to distort, revise, or falsify history. This presentation is from the Conference on Language Endangerment and Political Instability held at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx on October 4-6, 2018.
Date: October 4, 2018
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf & Raina, Ajay
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Major Processes Affecting Klallam Vowels (open access)

The Major Processes Affecting Klallam Vowels

This paper provides a more detailed description of the major processes affecting the Klallam vowels.
Date: August 1998
Creator: Montler, Timothy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on information sharing and ethics captions transcript

Speech on information sharing and ethics

Video of a presentation explaining aspects of information ethics and how to ethically share information during an afternoon session of the 2018 CoRSAL Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for a Computational Resource on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 1, 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library