Introductory presentation for the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.

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.

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.

Presentation on archiving community work in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.

Presentation on the overview of the Centre for Endangered Languages at Sikkim University and the development of the Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalayas Endangered Language Archive (SiDHELA). It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.

Presentation exploring the technical perspective of displaying CoRSAL content on social media.

This presentation explores the variation in interlinear-glossed text (IGT) in 5 closely related South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages with verb stem alternation, reduplicated adverbial modifiers, and pre-verbal directionals. While IGT is a rich representation of language, IGT for even closely related languages can look markedly different due to individual linguists’ divergent analyses. In comparing the discrepancies between representations of such features, we gain insight into the underlying analytic thinking of the annotator to reexamine and improve analyses.

Presentation on four areas of materials in need of archiving and return to the communities in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.

Presentation on the status of existing data on Burmic langauges, including what medium it is on, whether it is archived, and the level of description it has, from 1971-present. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.

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.

Presentation on Digital Himalaya since its launch in 2010, and how its mission has changed along with technology and sustainability. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.

Presentation exploring how information is organized in digital cultural heritage collection in Arabian Gulf countries. Study reveals high metadata quality overall but lack of consistency for many metadata fields, explained in part by the absence of metadata creation guidelines and professional training for metadata creators.

In an increasingly interconnected world, there is a need to prepare students to become more knowledgeable of different cultures and global matters. Furthermore, in a time which is characterized by disinformation, information literacy becomes more important than ever before. By taking into account transnational perspectives in learning these topics, e-learning provides us with the opportunity to connect students who otherwise would not have the chance to meet and get into knowledge related discourse with each other. In this context, the project „Intercultural perspectives on Information Literacy“ (IPIL) aims to realize a transnational learning community in which students from different countries engage in knowledge building discourse to foster intercultural learning and information literacy. The first IPIL course was conducted in winter term 2019/2020. Since then multiple transnational courses and workshops have been carried out. The last course took place in the winter semester 2021/2022. The didactical structure of IPIL follows a constructivist socio-cultural approach of knowledge building and knowledge creation in which learners from different higher education institutions with diverse cultural backgrounds engage in learning related discourse on topics related to information literacy. To enable such learning, the learning environment is structured into three levels (community, learning cycles, group learning task) …

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.

Presentation about the development KokBorok Language Resource as an example of CoRSAL's goal of connecting legacy material with more current audiovisual resources. Samir Debarma describes the status of the KokBorok language; Merrion Dale discusses digitization; Shobhana Chelliah outlines the goals of the Endangered Languages Fund Language Legacies grant. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.

Presentation on the authors' research and collection development for the languages in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.

With an increasing flood of data and at the same time changing requirements, making the relevant information available in the right context to a customer and within the company for the respective development-, technical- and service-departments is a key success factor for many companies and at the same time an enormous challenge. The problem with folders and filing data in tree structures is that information about an object is scattered across different aspects. Access to this information is only possible if the respective aspects are known. In a semantic network, each object exists only once, all information about this object comes together at this point and it can still be accessed within different contexts. Such a network can be changed at any time and further aspects can be added as needed: semantic machine learning, in order to be able to react flexibly to new requirements. Semantic networks combine functions of ontologies, topic maps, taxonomies and thesauri. They model complex relationships and directly transform large amounts of structured and unstructured content into networked units of knowledge. In this way, computer-readable and computer-usable knowledge bases are created. The creation and maintenance of semantic networks is demand-driven and interactive between humans and computers. …

Presentation addressing the need for effective training in metadata creation for library and information science students through an overview of the metadata creation skill-building content of the online introductory graduate metadata course at the University of North Texas, results of the analysis of quality in student-created metadata records, and discussion of how the observed common metadata quality issues might inform curriculum development.

Presentation on the author's work on the Qiangic languages and relevant work by other researchers. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting for Reporting and Exploring held on October 1, 2020.