Bharatavani Project - Reviving Linguistic Diversity and Cultural Heritage in India: A Case Study (open access)

Bharatavani Project - Reviving Linguistic Diversity and Cultural Heritage in India: A Case Study

Article presenting an overview of the Bharatavani project, which focuses on recording socio-cultural and linguistic information about 121 Indian languages and making it accessible to a broader audience. 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: Choudhary, Narayan; Premkumar, LR; Singh, Chandan; Mondal, Shubhanan; Priya, Shivangi; Sudarshan, Beluru et al.
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
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
Why it Can be Difficult to Make Historic Language Recordings Accessible: A View from a Corpus of Historic Dialect Recordings (open access)

Why it Can be Difficult to Make Historic Language Recordings Accessible: A View from a Corpus of Historic Dialect Recordings

Article reporting the experiences made in preparing a corpus of historic Austrian dialect recordings from the Phonogrammarchiv’s holdings and the real-life issues encountered in the process and discusses what needs to be done with such a corpus before something can be done with that corpus. 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: Huber, Christian
System: The UNT Digital Library
OLAC and Serials: An Appraisal (open access)

OLAC and Serials: An Appraisal

Article reporting on how journal articles are presented within the Open Language Archive Community’s (OLAC) OAI-PMH aggregator for language resources. Understanding how secondary journal materials are presented in OLAC records is a first step towards increasing the end-user utility of the OLAC aggregator. 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: Paterson, Hugh, III
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multiperspectivity and Neutrality in Language Archives (open access)

Multiperspectivity and Neutrality in Language Archives

Article discussing linguistic data and their creation with a focus on the human actions and decisions that shape them. 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: Weber, Tobias
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ukrainian Archival Metadata in WorldCat: Exploratory Analysis (open access)

Ukrainian Archival Metadata in WorldCat: Exploratory Analysis

Article documenting a study examining a sample of WorldCat records representing Ukrainian-language archival materials (including digital resources) that were not officially published or released with the goal to examine the extent to which these metadata records support the user tasks of find, identify, select, obtain, and explore. 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: Zavalin, Vyacheslav
System: The UNT Digital Library
Towards Making Shared Metadata Interoperable across the Open Language Archives Community (open access)

Towards Making Shared Metadata Interoperable across the Open Language Archives Community

Article presenting two methods for connecting aggregated records to their source institutional metadata profiles. The use case of the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) application profile is considered and evaluated. 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: Paterson, Hugh, III
System: The UNT Digital Library
Making Photographs in Language Archives Maximally Useful: Metadata Guidelines for Community and Academic Depositors (open access)

Making Photographs in Language Archives Maximally Useful: Metadata Guidelines for Community and Academic Depositors

Article focusing on metadata creation for photographs in language archives. 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: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
A CARE- and FAIR-Ready Distributed Access Control System for Human-Created Data (open access)

A CARE- and FAIR-Ready Distributed Access Control System for Human-Created Data

Article describe the approach which the authors are taking to access control and a design for a distributed access control system which can look after the A-is-for-accessible in FAIR data while respecting the CARE principles. 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: Sefton, Peter; Sacal Bonequi, Moises; Musgrave, Simon & Fewster, Jenny
System: The UNT Digital Library