Archival description for language documentation collections

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dc.contributor.authorSullivant, Ryan
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-09T18:48:51Z
dc.date.available2020-09-09T18:48:51Z
dc.date.issued2020-09
dc.description.abstractUsers of digital language archives face a number of barriers when trying to discover and reuse the materials preserved in the digital collections created by current language documentation projects. These barriers include sparse descriptive metadata throughout many collections and the prevalence of audio-video materials that are impervious to text-based search. Users could more easily evaluate, navigate, and use such a collection if it contained a guide that contextualized it, summarized its contents, and helped users identify and locate items within it. This article will discuss the importance of thorough collection descriptions and finding aids by synthesizing guidelines and best practices for archival description created for traditional archives and adapting these to the structure and makeup of today’s digital language documentation collections. To facilitate the iterative description of growing collections, the checklist of information to include is presented in three groups of descending priority.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.format.extent59 pages
dc.identifier.citationSullivant, Ryan. 2020. Archival description for language documentation collections. Language Documentation & Conservation 14: 520-578.
dc.identifier.issn1934-5275
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/24949
dc.language.isoen-US
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectarchival descriptions
dc.subjectlanguage documentation
dc.subjectarchives
dc.subjectmetadata
dc.titleArchival description for language documentation collections
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
prism.endingpage578
prism.publicationnameLanguage Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage520
prism.volume14

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