Alaska Native Language and Oral History Digital Audio Resources

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目将收集并提供互联网访问2000多个阿拉斯加土著语言采访录音带，这些录音带是根据1971年阿拉斯加土著土地所有权解决法案录制的，另外2000多个录音是从阿拉斯加土著语言档案馆保存的5000个录音中选出的。 在收集代表是所有阿拉斯加土著语言，因为大部分的收集是在1960年记录？1970年，？早在1940年就和一些人在一起了？年代，磁带代表的语言发言之前，随后侵蚀或语言转移到英语。 没有其他集合代表这种语言的多样性，也没有阿拉斯加土著语言的语音多样性，这两个集合捕捉。 由于录音是在模拟磁带上，它们有严重的变质和丢失的风险。 数字化收集不仅将保存它，但该项目也将增加访问，特别是对语音社区和遗产学习者，对语言材料-这是目前只能访问到安克雷奇或费尔班克斯，并听取他们在目前的档案存储设施。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project will digitize and provide internet access to over 2000 Alaska Native language interview tapes-recorded under the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and another 2000 plus recordings selected from the 5000 held by the Alaska Native Language Archive. Represented in the collection are all of the Alaska Native languages and because most of the collection was recorded in the 1960?s and 1970?s with some as early as the 1940?s, the tapes represent the languages spoken prior to subsequent erosion or language shift to English. No other collection represents this diversity of language, nor the diversity of speech of Alaskan Native languages that these two collections capture. Because the recordings are on analog tapes, they are at serious risk of deterioration and loss. Digitizing the collection will not only preserve it but the project also will increase access, especially for speech communities and heritage learners, to the language materials - which are presently accessible only by traveling to Anchorage or Fairbanks and listening to them in their current archive storage facilities.