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.
Object Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc-2023 (open access)

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc-2023

Conference proceedings of 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. It includes 10 peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the workshop and an introduction from the workshop organizers.
Date: June 4, 2023
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Book
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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