RAPID: Increasing Accessibility and Discoverability at the Alaska Native Language Archive

RAPID：提高阿拉斯加母语档案馆的可访问性和可发现性

• 批准号: 1735002
• 负责人: Siri Tuttle
• 金额: $ 15.98万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735002&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Increasing; Accessibility; Discoverability; Alaska

Endangered language archives play an important role in creating access to a region's cultural, historical and linguistic knowledge for the general public and scholars from a range of disciplines. Obtaining access to archived information can be a complex task. For a non-specialist user, it can be difficult to choose the right terms to type into a search box. The better the catalogue description attached to an archived item, the better the chances that a distant user may be able to access it. This project, focused on archived Native American language materials, will create a process for describing and integrating the combined knowledge that layers of annotation represent, so that users can better access those materials. The Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, enacted into policy the recognition of the unique status and importance of Native American languages. Knowledge of these languages deepens and enriches our understanding of our multicultural history; it is in the national interest to preserve and share this knowledge. Linguistic documentation of Native American languages has been preserved in libraries and archives since colonial times, but modern technology has given archivists new ways to share access to information. The Alaska Native Language Archive (ANLA) handles Native Language materials for all of the twenty-two Alaska Native Languages, as well as serving as a repository for related languages. This project seeks to broaden and improve access to materials held by ANLA by creating a workflow for the curation of important collections to create access for stakeholders in Alaska Native communities as well as in academic and pedagogical circles. Broader impacts also include the training of a graduate student, and the benefits from modernization of the workflow and the protocols for handling new deposits. ANLA seeks to increase discoverability and reproducibility of data on the region's indigenous languages through professionalization of the archive. The archive has always depended on collection improvement by knowledgeable users. This used to take the form of annotation to folders of papers, or transcriptions of recordings: a linguist would contribute notes after studying the work of other linguists, and these notes would form a new archived item. In the digital world, the layers of relationships between a recording and its derivatives (like transcriptions or other notes and annotations on the content) require careful organization to maintain. With the rapid advances in information science, adding staff with this expertise and ideally also in linguistics will enhance the discoverability and usability of ANLA's data sets, which represent some of the richest language deposits existing for Alaskan and Arctic languages. This project will develop protocols, workflow, and collection management practices in line with best approaches in archival sciences. As a test case, this project will develop a workflow for collection improvement by focusing on a specific subcollection and developing it to its best access level. To do this, a graduate student will annotate and re-catalogue a large set of texts in a single language (Lower Tanana Dene/Athabascan) to demonstrate how subcollection development can improve access for academic and other stakeholders.

濒危语言档案在为公众和各学科学者提供获取一个区域的文化、历史和语言知识的途径方面发挥着重要作用。 获取存档信息的访问权限可能是一项复杂的任务。对于非专业用户来说，很难选择正确的术语输入搜索框。归档项目的目录描述越好，远程用户访问它的机会就越大。该项目侧重于归档的美洲原住民语言材料，将创建一个描述和整合注释层所代表的组合知识的过程，以便用户可以更好地访问这些材料。美国国会于1990年通过的《美洲原住民语言法》承认了美洲原住民语言的独特地位和重要性。对这些语言的了解加深并丰富了我们对我国多元文化历史的理解;保存和分享这种知识符合国家利益。自殖民时代以来，美洲原住民语言的语言文献一直保存在图书馆和档案馆中，但现代技术为档案工作者提供了共享信息的新途径。阿拉斯加土著语言档案馆（ANLA）处理所有22种阿拉斯加土著语言的土著语言材料，并作为相关语言的储存库，该项目旨在通过创建一个管理重要收藏的工作流程，为阿拉斯加土著社区以及学术界和教育界的利益攸关方创造机会，扩大和改善对ANLA保存的材料的访问。更广泛的影响还包括培训一名研究生，以及工作流程现代化和处理新存款的协议带来的好处。土著语言局力求通过档案的专业化，提高该地区土著语言数据的可检索性和可复制性。 档案馆一直依赖于知识渊博的用户对馆藏的改进。这通常采取的形式是在文件夹上做注释，或者是记录的转录：一位语言学家在研究了其他语言学家的工作之后，会贡献一些笔记，这些笔记会形成一个新的存档项目。在数字世界中，录音与其衍生物（如录音或内容上的其他注释和注释）之间的关系层需要仔细组织才能维护。随着信息科学的快速发展，增加具有这方面专业知识的工作人员，最好也是语言学方面的工作人员，将提高ANLA数据集的可重复性和可用性，这些数据集代表了阿拉斯加和北极地区语言的一些最丰富的语言储备。该项目将根据档案科学的最佳方法制定协议，工作流程和收集管理实践。作为一个测试案例，该项目将开发一个工作流程，通过关注特定的子集合并将其开发到最佳访问级别来改进集合。要做到这一点，一个研究生将注释和重新编目一个单一的语言（下塔纳纳德内/阿萨巴斯卡）的文本大集合，以展示如何子集合的发展可以提高学术和其他利益相关者的访问。