The Alutiq Language Archive and Speaker Registry

记录濒危语言项目的一个基本任务是创建数字基础设施，为科学家和濒危语言社区成员提供获取濒危语言数据的途径。世界上现存的无数濒危语言记录需要语言学家和语言使用者社区的参与。Alutiiq传统基金会的April顾问和Alisha Drabek将与一个由社区成员、语言学家、档案管理员和博物馆馆长组成的强大团队合作，为阿拉斯加沿海（阿拉斯加半岛到威廉王子湾）使用的一种高度濒危语言Kodiak Alutiiq建立一个全面的数据库。该数据库将包括具有增强元数据的现有录音，来自33名剩余发言者的额外数据，以及记录每个发言者何时以及如何获得该语言的发言者登记册。该项目的一个主要部分将是教育Alutiiq的使用者了解元数据术语，以便可以继续轻松地整理和定位材料。改进语言文档和语言发现的关键是访问来自各种体裁、年代和风格的语言数据，因为每个数据样本提供了不同的语言结构视图。拟议的Alutiq数据库使用创新的Mukurtu内容管理系统创建，用于濒危语言数据，将成为其他社区如何创建丰富的语料库以供语言分析和社区使用以及如何管理数据的典范。它将提供数据访问和搜索功能。该项目将通过记录演讲者缺失的类型或互动类型来填补数据库中的空白。该数据库可以通过alutiq博物馆和阿拉斯加本土语言档案网站轻松访问。

A fundamental mission of the Documenting Endangered Language Program is to create digital infrastructure that provides scientists and endangered-language community members access to threatened language data. Countless extant records of endangered languages worldwide are in need of curation with input from linguists and the speaker-communities. April Counceller and Alisha Drabek of the Alutiiq Heritage Foundation will work with a strong team of community members, linguists, archivists, and museum curators to build a comprehensive database of one highly endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq spoken in coastal Alaska (Alaska Peninsula to Prince William Sound). This database will include existing audio recordings with enhanced metadata, additional data from 33 remaining speakers, and a speaker registry recording when and how each speaker acquired the language. A major part of the project will be to educate Alutiiq speakers on metadata terminology so that materials can continue to be curated and located with ease. The key to improved language documentation and linguistic discovery is access to language data from a variety of genres, ages, and styles since each data sample provides a different view of language structure. The proposed Alutiq database, created using the innovative Mukurtu Content Management System for endangered language data, will be a model for other communities on how to create a rich corpus for linguistic analysis and community use and how to curate data. It will provide data access and search capabilities. The project will fill gaps in the database by recording missing genres or interaction-types from speakers. The database will be easily accessible through the Alutiiq Museum and the Alaska Native Language Archive websites.