Transforming Access and Archiving for Endangered Language Data Through Exploratory Methodologies of Curation

世纪的数字革命带来了技术上的许多进步，沿着的是数字记录的数量和大小的增加。 这一增长速度超过了档案馆现有的组织和保存做法，特别是在由存放处及其工作人员组织长期保存和使用存放的收藏品的情况下。 2011年，美国国家科学基金会发布了一项命令，要求每一位申请这些联邦研究基金的研究人员必须提交一份数据管理计划，以准确解释收集的研究数据将如何存储、保护、保存和访问。白宫科技政策办公室2013年的一份备忘录规定，由联邦基金收集的科学研究必须公开，供公众使用。这些举措使现有的数字档案基础设施不堪重负，特别是那些专注于濒危语言的基础设施。该项目将研究一种潜在的变革性方法和一套最佳实践，以解决这一挑战，使语言学和语言文档的研究人员能够组织和管理自己的数据收集。如果成功，研究结果将对濒危语言研究人员以及人类学、社会学和数字人文学等相关学科广泛有用。 促进濒危语言和其他社会科学数据的访问和存档的转变将对数据的传播和通过数据的再利用进一步的学术研究产生重大的积极影响。探索一种解决方案，最大限度地减少财政影响，同时最大限度地提高开放获取将提供一个高价值的解决方案，以应对数字时代的一个重大挑战。拉丁美洲土著语言档案馆（AILLA）完全准备好执行这个项目，并面对数据堵塞的问题。 AILLA是区域数字语言档案馆的最佳范例，其馆藏量大且易于访问。 AILLA于2001年在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校成立，覆盖整个拉丁美洲，数百种濒危语言的家园和众多语言文献项目的所在地，其中许多由NSF和其他联邦机构资助。 通过英文和西班牙文两种门户网站，AILLA的馆藏比仅使用英文门户网站的档案可供更广泛的受众查阅。 项目活动的目标是收集一组特定的数据，首先评估每个存款的文件数量和大小以及组织水平，然后对它们进行管理。为了在更大范围内衡量该学科面临的数据积压程度，将对数字濒危语言和音乐档案网络（DELAMAN）的成员档案馆进行调查，了解他们的工作流程，存储库组织和积压收藏的类型。收集到的信息将综合成一套共享的最佳做法、元数据和方法，与DELAMAN档案管理员协商加以完善，并通过YouTube上的英语和西班牙语视频教程传播。 由此产生的培训有可能使数字档案工作人员能够快速、轻松地向数字储存库添加新的数据集。更快、更容易地将数据摄取到数字存储库中将简化数字存储库的摄取过程，并提高数据的可访问性和可扩展性，以满足开放获取的要求。此外，该项目还将于2018年在协作语言研究所（CoLang）共同召集DELAMAN档案馆的代表，以突出新开发的方法，并促进档案管理员与未存档数据收集的研究人员之间的联系。档案管理员和CoPI的Susan Smythe Kung还将举办一个CoLang研讨会，以传播成果和培训研究人员。其他可交付成果包括在美国语言学会的演讲，旨在达到语言科学的广泛受众。

The digital revolution of the 21st Century has brought many advances in technology along with an accompanying increase in the number and size of digital records. This increase has outpaced the existing organizational and preservation practices used by archives, especially where it is the repositories and their staff who organize long-term preservation and access for deposited collections. In 2011 the National Science Foundation issued a mandate that every researcher who applies for these federal research funds must submit a Data Management Plan to explain exactly how the collected research data would be stored, secured, preserved, and accessed. A 2013 memorandum from the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy specified that scientific research collected with federal funds must be made open and available for use by the public. These moves have overwhelmed the existing infrastructures for digital archives, especially those focusing on endangered languages. This project will investigate a potentially transformative methodology and set of best practices to solve this challenge that enables researchers in linguistics and language documentation to organize and curate their own data collections. If successful, results will be broadly useful to endangered language researchers as well as related disciplines like anthropology, sociology and the digital humanities. A transformation that facilitates the access and archiving of endangered language and other social science data would have a major positive impact on dissemination of data and further scholarship through re-use of the data. Exploring a solution that minimizes the financial impact while maximizing open access will offer a high value solution to a major challenge of the digital era.The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is perfectly poised to carry out this project and confront the issue of the logjam of data. AILLA is the foremost example of a regional digital language archive whose holdings are both large and easily accessible. Founded in 2001 at the University of Texas at Austin, AILLA covers all of Latin America, home to several hundred endangered languages and the location of numerous language documentation projects, many funded by NSF and other federal agencies. With portals in both English and Spanish, AILLA holdings are accessible to a wider audience than those of English-portal-only archives. Project activities target a specific set of data collections, first to assess number and size of files and the level of organization for each individual deposit, and then to curate them. To gauge the extent of the data backlog facing the discipline on a wider scale, fellow member archives from the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network (DELAMAN) will be surveyed regarding their workflows, repository organization, and types of backlogged collections. The information gleaned will be synthesized into a shared set of best practices, metadata, and methodologies, refined in consultation with DELAMAN archivists and disseminated through video tutorials on YouTube in both English and Spanish. The resulting training has the potential to enable digital archives staff to quickly and easily add new data collections to the digital repositories. Faster and easier ingestion of data into digital repositories will both streamline the ingestion processes at digital repositories as well as increase accessibility and discoverability of data to fulfill the open access mandate. Additionally, the project will co-convene a gathering of representatives DELAMAN archives in 2018 at the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) to highlight newly developed methodologies and to facilitate connections between archivists and the researchers with unarchived data collections. Archivist and CoPI Susan Smythe Kung will also conduct a CoLang workshop to disseminate results and train researchers. Other deliverables include a presentation at the Linguistic Society of America, designed to reach a broad audience in the language sciences.