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

通过探索性管理方法改变濒危语言数据的访问和归档

基本信息

批准号：
1653380
负责人：
Anthony Woodbury
金额：
$ 24.8万
依托单位：
University of Texas at Austin
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-09-01 至 2020-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1653380&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Transforming Access Archiving Endangered Language

项目摘要

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.

21世纪的数字革命带来了许多技术进步，同时数字记录的数量和规模也随之增加。这一增长速度超过了档案馆现有的组织和保存做法，特别是由档案馆及其工作人员组织长期保存和查阅已存放的馆藏。2011年，美国国家科学基金会发布了一项命令，要求每位申请联邦研究基金的研究人员必须提交一份数据管理计划，详细说明收集到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（Office of Science and Technology Policy） 2013年的一份备忘录明确规定，用联邦资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，尤其是那些关注濒危语言的基础设施。该项目将研究一种潜在的变革方法和一套最佳实践来解决这一挑战，使语言学和语言文档研究人员能够组织和管理他们自己的数据收集。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获取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。探索一种既能最大限度地减少财务影响，又能最大限度地开放获取的解决方案，将为数字时代的重大挑战提供高价值的解决方案。拉丁美洲土著语言档案馆（AILLA）完全有能力开展这个项目，并面对数据堵塞的问题。AILLA是一个区域数字语言档案的最重要的例子，它的馆藏既大又容易访问。AILLA于2001年在奥斯汀的德克萨斯大学成立，涵盖了整个拉丁美洲，数百种濒危语言的家园和众多语言文档项目的所在地，其中许多项目由美国国家科学基金会和其他联邦机构资助。由于拥有英语和西班牙语两种门户，与仅使用英语门户的档案相比，更广泛的受众可以访问AILLA馆藏。项目活动针对一组特定的数据收集，首先评估文件的数量和大小以及每个单独存储的组织级别，然后对它们进行管理。为了在更大的范围内评估该学科面临的数据积压的程度，将对来自数字濒危语言和音乐档案网络（DELAMAN）的成员档案进行调查，包括他们的工作流程、存储库组织和积压馆藏的类型。收集到的信息将综合成一套共享的最佳实践、元数据和方法，与DELAMAN档案管理员协商后加以完善，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将新的数据集合添加到数字存储库中。更快、更容易地将数据摄取到数字存储库将简化数字存储库的摄取过程，并增加数据的可访问性和可发现性，以实现开放访问任务。此外，该项目将于2018年在协作语言研究研究所（CoLang）共同召集DELAMAN档案代表聚会，以突出新开发的方法，并促进档案工作者与未存档数据收集的研究人员之间的联系。档案保育员兼首席研究员Susan Smythe Kung还将举办CoLang研讨会，传播研究成果并培训研究人员。其他可交付成果包括在美国语言学会的一次演讲，旨在向语言科学领域的广泛受众展示。