Oklahoma Language Digitization and Access Project

由于历史的力量，俄克拉荷马州有一个不寻常的高度集中的美洲原住民部落，最初来自整个大陆。 因此，那里使用的语言范围特别丰富。 萨姆·诺布尔（Sam Noble）俄克拉荷马州自然历史博物馆（SNOMNH）的美洲原住民语言藏品涵盖了主要来自俄克拉荷马州的语言，这些语言在图书馆和档案馆中严重濒危和代表性不足。 在NSF的支持下，玛丽·林恩博士计划扩展土著语言的文档，并增加现有和新创建的集合的可访问性和可用性。 这将通过直接的策展工作和培训母语使用者和教育工作者来实现。将举办两个系列的三个讲习班：1）录音/录像的最佳做法，2）录音/录像收藏的数字化和存档做法，3）文件：从录音到课堂使用。此外，对于没有或很少有发言者的部落，单独的？生命之息？讲习班将培训参加者如何使用现有的语言和音频材料进行语言文献和学习。这些研讨会将帮助部落语言方案和档案在自己的记录和存档的做法，以及熟悉的参与者SNOMNH美洲土著语言的收藏，服务和方案。 这些收藏品使得有可能为社区努力维持的人编制教学课程和教材。它还为语音学、音系学、句法学、形态学、语用学、话语分析以及历史和比较语言学的语言学研究提供了数据。通过培训讲习班，SNOMNH将促进语言振兴工作中的文献工作。项目工作人员将与当地土著社区密切合作，使这些财产尽可能容易获得和使用，以鼓励所有土著人民充分利用现有材料。这将使那些不太熟悉档案和学术场所的人能够利用这些资源，作为其语言振兴和维护工作的一部分。这些培训项目还将帮助部落语言项目和档案馆与其学术伙伴合作，以帮助促进文件编制和视听数据存档方面不断发展的标准。

Due to historical forces, Oklahoma has an unusually high concentration of Native American tribes, originally from all over the continent. The range of languages spoken there is thus especially rich. The Native American Languages collections at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNOMNH) cover languages, primarily from Oklahoma, that are severely endangered and under-represented in libraries and archives. With NSF support, Dr. Mary Linn plans to expand the documentation of Native languages and increase the accessibility and usablility of existing and newly created collections. This will be accomplished both with direct curatorial effort and through training Native language speakers and educators. Two series of three workshops will be given: 1) Best practices in audio/video recording, 2) Digitization and archival practices for audio/video collections, and 3) Documentation: From recordings to classroom use. Further, for tribes who have no or very few speakers, a separate ?Breath of Life? workshop will train participants in the use of existing linguistic and audio materials for language documentation and learning. These workshops will help tribal language programs and archives in their own documenting and archiving practices as well as familiarize the participants to the SNOMNH Native American Languages collections, services, and programs. The collection makes possible the production of teaching curriculum and materials for the whose communities are trying to maintain them. It also provides data for linguistic research in phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and historical and comparative linguistics. With the training workshops, the SNOMNH will promote documentation in language revitalization efforts. Project staff will work closely with local Native communities in order to make the holdings as accessible and as usable as possible in an effort to encourage all Native people to take full advantage of existing material. This will enable those less familiar with archives and academic venues to use these resources as part of their language revitalization and maintenance efforts. The training programs will also help partner tribal-based language programs and archives with their academic partners to help contribute to the evolving standards in documentation and archiving audio/visual data.