Endangered Language Documentation: The challenges of interdisciplinary research in ethnobiology
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25-Apr-20
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In 2004, three national institutes jointly published Facilitating interdisciplinary research, a report that set standards for evaluating the interdisciplinarity of cross-disciplinary collaborations. Although endangered language documentation (ELD) projects often assemble multidisciplinary teams, the 2004 criteria, today followed by the NSF, create such a high bar for interdisciplinarity that it is probably better to evaluate the cross-disciplinary impact of ELD projects through a different criterion: that of service vs. science. According to this perspective, the cross-disciplinary goal of ELD projects should be to decrease reliance on outside provisioning of services while increasing their contribution to the research goals of external disciplines. This article first suggests that ELD projects should actively promote and evaluate the use project results across disciplines, beginning with greater attention to the archiving process and issues of discoverability and transparency of data. It then explores the potential for the cross-disciplinary impact of ELD ethnobiological research, which has often simply asked taxonomists to identify collected material to species, a service that only marginally benefits biological research agendas. To promote scientific collaboration across disciplines, ELD ethnobiological projects are best designed if they contribute methodologically, substantially, and theoretically to biological research. This article concludes with a description of such an effort.
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Amith, Jonathan. 2020. Endangered Language Documentation: The challenges of interdisciplinary research in ethnobiology.
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