Collaborative Research: Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives

全世界的数字语言档案馆现在保存着数千小时的音频和视频数字录音以及经过语言分析的数据样本。这些材料的处理和存储发生得如此之快，以至于没有充分关注存储的材料是否可以被各种研究和演讲者社区适当地搜索、分析、理解和解释。北德克萨斯大学的设计人类学家克里斯蒂娜·沃森（Christina Wasson）和阿拉斯加大学的语言学家和语言档案管理员加里·霍尔顿（Gary Holton）将研究主要语言档案馆中的数字语言存放的结构。 沃森和霍尔顿将语言档案管理员、现场语言学家和濒危语言社区成员聚集在研讨会上，利用用户中心设计原则，从访问、导航和数据库结构等多个角度评估档案的可用性。本次研讨会的跨学科对话可能会引发语言档案设计者和管理者的范式转变，并最终对语言学中基于计算的研究方法产生积极影响。

Digital language archives worldwide now host thousands of hours of audio and video digital recordings and linguistically analyzed data samples. The processing and storing of this material has happened so quickly that adequate attention has not been paid to whether deposited materials can be appropriately searched, analyzed, understood, and interpreted by various research and speaker communities. Design anthropologist Christina Wasson from the University of North Texas and linguist and language archivist Gary Holton from the University of Alaska will investigate how digital language deposits at major language archives are structured. Bringing together language archivists, field linguists, and endangered language community members in a workshop setting, Wasson and Holton will use principles of User Center Design to evaluate the usability of archives from several perspectives including access, navigation, and database structure. The interdisciplinary dialogue at this workshop could initiate a paradigm shift for language archive designers and managers and ultimately have positive repercussions for computationally-based research methods in linguistics.