The Alutiq Language Archive and Speaker Registry

记录濒危语言项目的一项基本使命是创建数字基础设施，为科学家和濒危语言社区成员提供获取濒危语言数据的途径。 全世界无数现存的濒危语言记录需要语言学家和语言使用者社区的参与。 April Counceller和Alisha Drabek将与社区成员，语言学家，档案管理员和博物馆馆长组成的强大团队合作，建立一个高度濒危语言的综合数据库，在阿拉斯加沿海（阿拉斯加半岛到威廉王子湾）使用科迪亚克语。 该数据库将包括现有的录音和增强的元数据，来自其余33个发言者的额外数据，以及记录每个发言者何时以及如何获得语言的发言者登记册。 该项目的一个主要部分将是对演讲者进行元数据术语方面的教育，以便能够继续轻松地策划和定位材料。 改进语言文档和语言发现的关键是访问来自各种流派，年龄和风格的语言数据，因为每个数据样本提供了不同的语言结构视图。 拟议中的Mukurtu濒危语言数据库是利用创新的Mukurtu濒危语言数据内容管理系统创建的，它将成为其他社区如何为语言分析和社区使用创建丰富语料库以及如何管理数据的典范。 它将提供数据访问和搜索能力。 该项目将通过记录演讲者缺失的体裁或互动类型来填补数据库中的空白。 该数据库可通过阿拉斯加州博物馆和阿拉斯加土著语言档案网站方便地访问。

A fundamental mission of the Documenting Endangered Language Program is to create digital infrastructure that provides scientists and endangered-language community members access to threatened language data. Countless extant records of endangered languages worldwide are in need of curation with input from linguists and the speaker-communities. April Counceller and Alisha Drabek of the Alutiiq Heritage Foundation will work with a strong team of community members, linguists, archivists, and museum curators to build a comprehensive database of one highly endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq spoken in coastal Alaska (Alaska Peninsula to Prince William Sound). This database will include existing audio recordings with enhanced metadata, additional data from 33 remaining speakers, and a speaker registry recording when and how each speaker acquired the language. A major part of the project will be to educate Alutiiq speakers on metadata terminology so that materials can continue to be curated and located with ease. The key to improved language documentation and linguistic discovery is access to language data from a variety of genres, ages, and styles since each data sample provides a different view of language structure. The proposed Alutiq database, created using the innovative Mukurtu Content Management System for endangered language data, will be a model for other communities on how to create a rich corpus for linguistic analysis and community use and how to curate data. It will provide data access and search capabilities. The project will fill gaps in the database by recording missing genres or interaction-types from speakers. The database will be easily accessible through the Alutiiq Museum and the Alaska Native Language Archive websites.