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Description of songs of exhaltation

This narration is about the songs of praise sung for someone who has achieved wealth and prosperity, or someone who has done great deeds.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of traditional folk songs, part 2

This narration is about the importance and role songs played for communication in the traditional life of the Liangmai. Songs were employed in various situations, and they are expressions of different kinds of emotions. Liangmai ancestors used songs to express and convey their feelings and thought. It is a medium to express pleasure and pain, sorrow and joy, spiritual and moral values, and traditional and cultural knowledge. It is a rich form of cultural heritage that contributes towards maintaining the history of the people and plays vital role in connecting generations, establishing cultural identity and helps transmit cultural values, beliefs, knowledge, etc. When one is not happy or angry with another person, songs were used to express the feelings instead of talking and using explicit words. Angry facial countenance was not used; rather, a person used a song as a means to express his feelings or wishes. Then the other person would understand that the one singing the song is not happy or sad or angry. One would listen to the lyric of the song and understand the intended meaning.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of traditional folk songs, part 1

This narration is about the importance and role songs played for communication in the traditional life of the Liangmai. Songs were employed in various situations, and they are expressions of different kinds of emotions. Liangmai ancestors used songs to express and convey their feelings and thought. It is a medium to express pleasure and pain, sorrow and joy, spiritual and moral values, and traditional and cultural knowledge. It is a rich form of cultural heritage that contributes towards maintaining the history of the people and plays vital role in connecting generations, establishing cultural identity and helps transmit cultural values, beliefs, knowledge, etc. When one is not happy or angry with another person, songs were used to express the feelings instead of talking and using explicit words. Angry facial countenance was not used; rather, a person used a song as a means to express his feelings or wishes. Then the other person would understand that the one singing the song is not happy or sad or angry. One would listen to the lyric of the song and understand the intended meaning.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of the gathering of peers

Phiangaobo is the coming together of friends or peers to celebrate after a season of hard agricultural work. This group of friends, usually younger people, would gather at one house where they sing, drink, and eat the whole night.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of the song of a babysitter

When evening sets in, but parents have not yet returned from the field and children are crying, a babysitter carries a child on her back and soothe them in the front yard. Gazing to the direction from where the mother will come, the babysitter pacifies the child by singing these songs.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of field weeding songs

This narration is about songs that are sung while working on field. Some of the first songs sang while going to the field and while working on it are recorded here. Such songs are usually short, and their themes are numerous.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description and performance of children's songs, part 1

These are songs commonly sung by children. The narrator recollects some songs he used to sing as a kid.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description and performance of children's songs, part 2

These are songs commonly sung by children. The narrator recollects some songs he used to sing as a kid.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of a farewell dance to a girl

When a village girl is to get married, her peers and friends will gather at her house and spend a day singing and dancing with her. This narration is about the songs and dances performed during such gatherings.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of youth's songs

The narration is about the songs of the village youth. Back in the days, on some auspicious occasions the youth will gather at a place, sing songs teasing each other, drink rice beer, and celebrate the whole day. The speaker narrates what kind of songs were sung on this day.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description and performance of children's songs, part 3

These are songs commonly sung by children. The narrator recollects some songs he used to sing as a kid.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of village guarding songs

Guarding of village is one of the most important duties of able-bodied young men. While on duty, young men usually sing songs to assure the villagers that they are in good hands.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of the songs of the elders

When festive time comes, elderly women will sleep over in their dormitory. They will spend their time together drinking, singing, and celebrating. This narration is about songs sung by old women when they come together to have fun.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of house visitation

This narration is about the practice of house visitation and songs sung while visiting houses of the village. A group of singers will walk through the village and stop at certain places in intervals and sing songs.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of building of traditional grand house

When a traditional grand house is built, old men will stand beneath the house and perform a ritual. This narration is about ritual songs sung during construction of kakuki 'the grand house'.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of house building songs

Phenlakbou Marenmai briefly describes and performs the songs sung while building traditional grand house and common houses in the village.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of village administration

A description of village administration. Smooth functioning of a village life requires certain people to execute certain roles. The two oldest men in the village, known as singko and tingko, provide the mechanism of the social and religious systems. It was their duty to declare prohibitions, taboos, and so on. Kamu, the village shaman, performs funeral for the dead and attend to sick. He would perform all the rituals in the village. Apai, the village council, comprising old men from every clan in the village, look after the village administration.
Date: October 1, 2016
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distributed Learning for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science at Diverse Universities (open access)

Distributed Learning for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science at Diverse Universities

Data management plan for the grant, "Distributed Learning for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science at Diverse Universities." Here, we propose to expand on our previous NSF-supported work in developing a suite of courses in data science (DS) that were taught across a network of 4 undergraduate institutions in a distributed learning (DL) format. The current proposal seeks to expand the size and diversity of our network while adapting the advanced distributed learning (ADL) technology of the U.S. military to an academic setting to harness the power of AI in tailoring optimal learning experiences for individual students.
Date: 2022-10-01/2025-09-30
Creator: Spector, J. Michael
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Computational Resource for South Asian Languages Metadata Infrastructure to Support Social Media Interactions

Presentation exploring the technical perspective of displaying CoRSAL content on social media.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
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

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
Improving Student Learning While Decreasing Bias in Teaching Through Simulation (open access)

Improving Student Learning While Decreasing Bias in Teaching Through Simulation

Data management plan for the grant, "Improving Student Learning While Decreasing Bias in Teaching Through Simulation." Research on the simEquity project which will implement a scalable model for developing equitable, culturally responsive teaching practices through simSchool, a simulated teaching environment. The project will identify best practices to help teachers recognize and mitigate implicit biases that often impact student success. The project team will iteratively develop and test a Teaching without Bias curriculum and an AI-driven set of bias reduction tools that can be added to existing simulation instruction modules.
Date: 2021-10-01/2024-09-30
Creator: Christensen, Rhonda & Knezek, Gerald
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archiving Community Work

Presentation on archiving community work in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Post, Mark W.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Curating materials on ICSTLL languages- The case of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh

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.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Morey, Stephen & Post, Mark W.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library