Linguistic Archives and Language Communities Questionnaire (open access)

Linguistic Archives and Language Communities Questionnaire

Article presenting a questionnaire designed to assess how archival materials can be made more readily available to language communities. 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: Khait, Ilya; Lukschy, Leonore & Seyfeddinipur, Mandana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Texas State Library and Archives Commission Annual Report on Measures: 2020 (open access)

Texas State Library and Archives Commission Annual Report on Measures: 2020

Annual report of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2020, including actual performance for outcome and explanatory measures, as well as fourth quarter output and efficiency measures.
Date: October 8, 2020
Creator: Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Archives and Information Services Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

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
Archives: Perspectives from Three Scholars of Tibeto-Burman captions transcript

Archives: Perspectives from Three Scholars of Tibeto-Burman

Video recording of a 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: 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

Amplifying Community Voices in Language Archives Through Participatory Archiving

Presentation from a panel, "Considering Individual and Community Contexts Within Information Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Practice," that was held virtually for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). This portion of the panel focuses on the author's research into community-based language research (CBLR) and the Lamkang language.
Date: October 25, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Investigation of Descriptive Richness of Free-Text Metadata in Language Archives

This presentation introduces language archives and analyzes item‐level metadata in three of them by focusing on free‐text metadata: the Endangered Language Archive, Pacific Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, and the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The study identified categories of information included in Description metadata fields and the relative distribution of these categories.
Date: October 26, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Linguistic Analysis, Ethical Practice, and Quality Assurance in Anonymizing Recordings of Spoken Language for Deposit in Digital Archives (open access)

Linguistic Analysis, Ethical Practice, and Quality Assurance in Anonymizing Recordings of Spoken Language for Deposit in Digital Archives

Article considering linguistic analyses as matters of ethical practice and quality assurance in the anonymization of recordings of spoken language for deposit in a digital language archive. 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: Ovalle Lopez, Diana Sofia & Vann, Robert E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Best Practices for Information Architecture, Organization, and Retrieval in Digital Language Archives within University Institutional Repositories (open access)

Best Practices for Information Architecture, Organization, and Retrieval in Digital Language Archives within University Institutional Repositories

Article highlighting a case study about building a working digital language archive in a hosted university institutional repository. 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: Vann, Robert E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Software Features and Linguistic Analyses Add Value to Orthographic Markup in Transcription of Multilingual Recordings for Digital Archives (open access)

How Software Features and Linguistic Analyses Add Value to Orthographic Markup in Transcription of Multilingual Recordings for Digital Archives

Article discussing the importance of accounting for language contact and discourse circumstance in orthographic transcriptions of multilingual recordings of spoken language for deposit in digital language archives (DLAs). 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: Rodriguez, Enrique & Vann, Robert E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Descriptive richness of free-text metadata: a comparative analysis of three language archives

This article analyzes item‐level metadata in three language archives by focusing on free‐text metadata: the Endangered Language Archive, Pacific Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, and the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The study identified categories of information included in Description metadata fields and the relative distribution of these categories.
Date: October 22, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating Workflow for Mediated Archiving in CoRSAL (open access)

Creating Workflow for Mediated Archiving in CoRSAL

Article on the development of a workflow process that can accommodate the range of different language depositors in the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL). 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: Dale, Merrion
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Towards an Agenda for Open Language Archiving (open access)

Towards an Agenda for Open Language Archiving

Article reporting on the first 20 years of the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) and on an agenda leading to a more sustainable future for open language archiving. 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: Bird, Steven
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive (open access)

Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive

Article introduces the collaboration between the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) group and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library to build a series of interconnected digital collections for various language communities. 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: Phillips, Mark Edward; Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Linguistic Repositories as Asset: Challenge for Sociolinguistic Approach in Brazil (open access)

Linguistic Repositories as Asset: Challenge for Sociolinguistic Approach in Brazil

Article providing remarks for a management plan for Brazilian linguistic documentation repositories in order to contribute to their conservation. 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: Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emerging Role of Libraries in Language Archiving in India A Case Study of SiDHELA (open access)

Emerging Role of Libraries in Language Archiving in India A Case Study of SiDHELA

Article highlights the SiDHELA language archive which was developed by the Centre for Endangered Languages and the Central Library at Sikkim University. 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: Narayanan, Karthick & Takhellambam, Meriaba
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Website Is a Website Is a Website: Why Trusted Repositories Are Needed More Than Ever (open access)

A Website Is a Website Is a Website: Why Trusted Repositories Are Needed More Than Ever

Article discusses the differences between professional archiving systems and content management system (CMS) based approaches to making language materials accessible. 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: Ferreira, Vera; Lukschy, Leonore; Watyam, Buachut; Ungsitipoonporn, Siripen & Seyfeddinipur, Mandana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborating with Language Community Members to Enrich Ethnographic Descriptions in a Language Archive (open access)

Collaborating with Language Community Members to Enrich Ethnographic Descriptions in a Language Archive

Article describing a pilot project undertaken at the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) which explores a collaborative archiving approach to enable language community members to tell their own stories by adding contextual information to archival materials. 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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Track to the Past: Tracking Workflows, Versions, and Citations of Legacy Language Data (open access)

Track to the Past: Tracking Workflows, Versions, and Citations of Legacy Language Data

Article on issues encountered with legacy language data in archives. 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: Weber, Tobias
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges in Heritage Language Documentations: BraPoRus, Spoken Corpus of Heritage Russian in Brazil (open access)

Challenges in Heritage Language Documentations: BraPoRus, Spoken Corpus of Heritage Russian in Brazil

Article describing the BRAzilian POrtuguese RUSsian Corpus (BraPoRus), a corpus that consists of multiple speech samples of older Russian heritage speakers in Brazil, and discussing the best ways to make these data available in the forms that satisfy the requirements both for the linguistic and sociological research. 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: Smirnova Henriques, Anna; Skorobogatova, Aleksandra S.; Ruseishvili, Svetlana; Madureira, Sandra & Sekerina, Irina A.
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
Required Reports Prepared by State Agencies and Institutions of Higher Education (open access)

Required Reports Prepared by State Agencies and Institutions of Higher Education

2021 Report containing any statutory changes to reports from the 86th Legislative Regular and Called Sessions, if any, and any report assessments.
Date: October 2020
Creator: Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Archives and Information Services Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History