Enhancing Indigenous Language Infrastructure

加强本土语言基础设施

• 批准号: 1953104
• 负责人: John Lucy
• 金额: $ 19.46万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1953104&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Indigenous; Language; Infrastructure

Developing and maintaining infrastructure is important for enabling future research on disappearing languages. This award supports the modernization and enhancement of language infrastructure in one of the oldest and most important repositories of materials held in the country: the indigenous language collections held at the University of Chicago. The collections, some extending back a century, are currently dispersed across different units in the university, have been catalogued differently, and are difficult to access. To unlock the full scientific and social value of these collections, they need to be physically consolidated, uniformly catalogued, and readily accessible both to researchers and the public. The proposed enhancements will facilitate scientific and historical research on languages, support heritage-language maintenance and education efforts, and contribute to general public understanding of human cultural and linguistic diversity. The University of Chicago’s indigenous language collections include audio recordings in the Digital Media Archives, language texts in the Archive of Indigenous Literatures, unpublished linguistic and ethnographic manuscripts in the Manuscripts on Cultural Anthropology, and indigenous language instructional materials. These collections will be consolidated in the main library of the university, where the staff have significant experience in long-term digital preservation. This project integrates, standardizes, and enhances the heterogeneous metadata used in the collections. Basic library cataloguing standards will be uniformly employed and enhanced metadata on language, location, and content type will be provided. Links will connect related items across collections and one unified web portal for the consolidated collections will be developed. The portal will include efficient browsing and finding tools and provides guidance on how to navigate the site both for academic researchers and heritage speaker communities. For materials not in the public domain, the site will explain the procedures for obtaining access.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

开发和维护基础设施对于未来研究正在消失的语言非常重要。该奖项支持该国最古老和最重要的材料库之一的语言基础设施的现代化和加强：芝加哥大学的土著语言收藏。这些藏品，有些可以追溯到世纪，目前分散在大学的不同单位，被不同地编目，很难访问。为了充分发挥这些收藏品的科学和社会价值，它们需要进行物理整合，统一编目，并随时向研究人员和公众开放。拟议的改进将促进对语言的科学和历史研究，支持遗产语言的维护和教育工作，并促进公众对人类文化和语言多样性的了解。芝加哥大学的土著语言收藏包括数字媒体档案中的录音、土著文献档案中的语言文本、文化人类学手册中未出版的语言和人种学手稿以及土著语言教学材料。这些藏书将被合并到大学的主图书馆，那里的工作人员在长期数字保存方面具有丰富的经验。该项目集成、优化和增强了集合中使用的异构元数据。将统一采用图书馆编目基本标准，并提供关于语言、位置和内容类型的增强元数据。将建立链接，将收藏品中的相关项目连接起来，并将为合并收藏品开发一个统一的门户网站。该门户将包括高效的浏览和查找工具，并为学术研究人员和遗产演讲者社区提供如何浏览该网站的指导。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。