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Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives (open access)

Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives

This article reports preliminary results of the first stage of a research project that seeks to identify the information organization methods and techniques currently offered in the language data archives and the gaps between the tools and techniques available and the needs of actual and potential users of language data archives.
Date: October 18, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploration of Metadata Practices in Digital Collections of Archives with Arabian Language Materials (open access)

Exploration of Metadata Practices in Digital Collections of Archives with Arabian Language Materials

Article for a study aimed to develop understanding of the current state of metadata practices in digital collections of archival institutions in the Arabian Gulf region. It also explored perspectives (including attitudes and possible barriers) for development of large-scale regional portals that would facilitate discovery of Arab digital archives (including language collections) by aggregating metadata. It was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on June 30, 2023 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2023.
Date: June 4, 2023
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bringing User-Centered Design to the Field of Language Archives (open access)

Bringing User-Centered Design to the Field of Language Archives

This article describes findings from a workshop that initiated a dialogue between the fields of user-centered design (UCD) and language archives.
Date: November 16, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
System: The UNT Digital Library
Formulating a Scalable Approach to Patron-Requested Digitization in Archives (open access)

Formulating a Scalable Approach to Patron-Requested Digitization in Archives

This article examines how archives were forced to rethink their modes of providing access to physical collections because of the coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19). Whereas difficult copyright questions raised by reproducing items could previously be skirted by requiring researchers to work with materials in person, the long-term closure of reading rooms and decrease in long-distance travel mean that archives need a workflow for handling user digitization requests that is scalable and requires consulting only easily identifiable information and, assuming full reproduction is off the table, reproducing items in a collection under 17 U.S.C. § 108 or through a strategy of rapid risk assessment. There is a challenge in creating a policy that will work across different formats and genres of archival materials, so this article offers some suggestions for how to think about these parameters according to US copyright law and calls for a committee of experts to work out a model policy that could serve remote users of archival collections even after the COVID-19 crisis has passed.
Date: June 1, 2021
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S. & Judkins, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organization of knowledge and information in digital archives of language materials (open access)

Organization of knowledge and information in digital archives of language materials

This article reports the first empirical investigation of various dimensions of organization and representation of recorded knowledge and information in language archives. The study used a combination of semi-structured interviews and content analysis. Results demonstrate that, while some of the phenomena related to organization of information in language archives are specific to these types of archives, others are more typical and have been addressed by libraries in past research and practice.
Date: April 13, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Identifying Challenges for Information Organization in Language Archives: Preliminary Findings

Conference paper elucidates the issues facing language archive managers and users through two steps: content analysis of information organization in language archives, and semi-structured interviews with language archive managers and users. Primary challenges identified include lacking institutional support and a range of factors which impact authority control in language archives. This version is the author's accepted manuscript.
Date: March 19, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
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
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
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Content-Based Characterization of the End of Term Web Archive (open access)

Content-Based Characterization of the End of Term Web Archive

Article describes how, since 2008, the End of Term Web Archive has been gathering snapshots of the federal web, consisting of the publicly accessible .gov and .mil websites. This paper describes the decisions made in the creation of these derivatives, the technologies used, and introduces the WARC Metadata Sidecar, which presents a useful approach for creating and storing auxiliary metadata for web archives.
Date: September 2023
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Phillips, Kristy & Alam, Sawood
System: The UNT Digital Library
End of Term 2016 Presidential Web Archive (open access)

End of Term 2016 Presidential Web Archive

This article presents an overview of the End of Term 2016 Presidential Web Archive conducted at the end of the second Obama presidential term. It presents the workflow for this collaborative project as well as lessons learned.
Date: February 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Phillips, Kristy
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
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Documenting Captured Records From Terrorist Organizations (open access)

Documenting Captured Records From Terrorist Organizations

Article discussing documenting captured records from terrorist organizations. This article discusses documenting captured records from terrorist organizations. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, American forces captured 43,000 boxes of government documents and thousands of hours of previously unknown audio recordings. This article traces the release of these records, archival considerations, political initiatives, effect of these records on protecting the public, and future developments.
Date: 2011
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Findings from the MetaScholar Projects: AmericanSouth and MetaArchive (open access)

Findings from the MetaScholar Projects: AmericanSouth and MetaArchive

Article summarizing major findings of the MetaArchive and AmericanSouth projects, two of the seven projects of the 2001 Mellon Metadata Harvesting Initiative.
Date: October 24, 2003
Creator: Halbert, Martin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archiving Web-Published Materials: A Needs Assessment of Librarians, Researchers, and Content Providers (open access)

Archiving Web-Published Materials: A Needs Assessment of Librarians, Researchers, and Content Providers

Article discussing archiving web-published materials and a needs assessment of librarians, researchers, and content providers.
Date: 2008
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing Collections of Web-Published Materials (open access)

Developing Collections of Web-Published Materials

This article discusses collection development practices to meet the unique characteristics of Web-published materials.
Date: October 12, 2008
Creator: Hsieh, Inga K.; Murray, Kathleen R. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Language Archiving Training: A Case Study of a Metadata Course in Library and Information Science Graduate Program, 2020 - 2023 (open access)

Language Archiving Training: A Case Study of a Metadata Course in Library and Information Science Graduate Program, 2020 - 2023

Article explores the training gap between the way these materials are organized and represented and the understanding of that data – and expectations towards the more functional ways of its organization and representation – by language preservation and revitalization researchers, and by members of language communities. Information resources collected by language archives have unique attributes of importance to their target user groups, and these attributes and their representation are not currently widely addressed by the formal training provided to information professionals. It was presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on June 30, 2023 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2023.<
Date: June 16, 2023
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Defense of Preservation in the Age of MPLP (open access)

A Defense of Preservation in the Age of MPLP

This article looks at Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner's attitudes towards preservation as revealed in their articles on More Product, Less Process (MPLP), the relationship between access and preservation, and the importance of preservation within archives; it also offers strategies for efficient preservation.
Date: 2015
Creator: Phillips, Jessica
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using existing metadata standards and tools for a digital language archive: a balancing act (open access)

Using existing metadata standards and tools for a digital language archive: a balancing act

Article discusses how building a digital language archive requires a number of steps to ensure collecting, describing, preserving and providing access to language data in effective and efficient ways. This paper introduces the reader to the background of this project and discusses some of the areas important for representing language materials where both University of North Texas Libraries (UNTL) metadata and CoRSAL metadata practices were adapted to better fit the needs of intended audiences.
Date: June 16, 2022
Creator: Burke, Mary; Tarver, Hannah; Phillips, Mark Edward & Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
On the Removal of Download Access to Grateful Dead Soundboards from the Live Music Archive (open access)

On the Removal of Download Access to Grateful Dead Soundboards from the Live Music Archive

Article on the removal of download access to Grateful Dead soundboards from the Live Music Archive.
Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exhibiting Regional LGBTQ History in Dallas, Texas (open access)

Exhibiting Regional LGBTQ History in Dallas, Texas

Article on the efforts of the University of North Texas Special Collections to create exhibits featuring LGBTQ history in Dallas, Texas. From 2017 to 2019 archivists and librarians at the University of North Texas Special Collections have worked with community members and city officials to create exhibits featuring archival materials from the LGBTQ Archive. There have been several obstacles to presenting accurate historical interpretation of Dallas LGBTQ community history, including lack of sufficient archival documentation, and differences between archival sources and community members’ personal experiences. Grappling with these challenges has allowed UNT Special Collections archivists and librarians to engage community members in a personal, meaningful discussion, and ultimately have led to both successful exhibits as well as strengthened relationships to LGBTQ community members.
Date: January 9, 2021
Creator: Parker, Jaimi & Gieringer, Morgan Davis
System: The UNT Digital Library

It Takes A Village To Save The Web: The End Of Term Web Archive

Article discussing the End of Term Web Archive, a collaborative project of the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas, the California Digital Library, and the United States Government Printing Office.
Date: December 31, 2012
Creator: Seneca, Tracy; Grotke, Abigail; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Carpenter, Kris
System: The UNT Digital Library