Access and Accessibility at ELAR, a Social Networking Archive for Endangered Languages Documentation

Nathan, David M.

doi:10.2307/j.ctt5vjtkq.7

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“…The key to investigating these dual and multiple perspectives lies in keeping human decisions and actions in the archived data as well as in interaction with the deposits visible and retraceable. Since artefactual histories and research narratives are shaped by these (inter-)actions, special attention must be given to situations involving historical data sets (e.g., legacy data) or minoritised language communities; data in these contexts merit special ethical considerations and control for communities over their data [19,25,31,36]. Ultimately, the archive itself cannot claim a neutral stance in this respect, as it, either through its statutes as an organisation or through the actions of associated humans, influences data preservation, presentation, and reuse.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiperspectivity and Neutrality in Language Archives

Weber¹

2023

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

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This paper discusses linguistic data and their creation with a focus on the human actions and decisions that shape them. The human factor and positionalities are often obscured by current practices in data handling. Obscuring the human agency does not only reduce the transparency of the research but also disenfranchises the humans behind the data. The language archive takes a dual role as a host for discourse and an agent within it. It cannot claim impartiality but adds perspectives to research data and narratives.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiperspectivity and Neutrality in Language Archives

Weber¹

2023

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

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“…In the past, language archives were primarily designed for and by linguists, described as a “one‐way” model by Nathan (), p. 193), with limited communication between archivists and users. The current foci in language archiving are “expanding audiences for archives and breaking traditional boundaries between depositors, users, and archivists” (Henke & Berez‐Kroeker, , p. 412).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploration of information organization in language archives

Burke

Zavalina

2019

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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This submission 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. We conducted an exploratory content analysis of the websites of the language archives (LAs) hosted by the institutions located in the United States and several other countries. The focus of our exploratory content analysis is on the information organization, including documentation on metadata standards, displaying of individual metadata records and availability of harvesting sets of metadata records, provision of advanced discovery and navigation options powered by metadata such as availability of adaptive and personalized search or social tagging functionality. Here, we report our preliminary findings and describe our plan for Stage 2 of the.

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