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An increased awareness of documentary linguists’ ethical responsibilities towards the communities where they work, particularly where languages are endangered, has heightened the importance of providing access to linguistic materials not only to the international academic community, but also to memb...
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ftdatacite:10.25894/ldd166 2024-02-04T10:03:17+01:00 Archiving for the community: Engaging local archives in language documentation projects ... Wilbur, Joshua 2014 https://dx.doi.org/10.25894/ldd166 https://www.lddjournal.org/article/id/1162/ en eng Language Documentation and Description Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode cc-by-nc-4.0 Article ScholarlyArticle Text article-journal 2014 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25894/ldd166 2024-01-05T00:45:22Z An increased awareness of documentary linguists’ ethical responsibilities towards the communities where they work, particularly where languages are endangered, has heightened the importance of providing access to linguistic materials not only to the international academic community, but also to members of the language communities themselves. A local archiving institution (such as a local library or museum) can play a vital role in ensuring such access both now and in the future because it can potentially overcome certain technical and language-based hurdles encountered by some language communities. However, a number of challenges exist in archiving locally due to lack of technical infrastructure and experience, and limited prioritization of language materials. In the following discussion, I describe my own experiences gained in working with local archiving institutions in northern Sweden while carrying out the Pite Saami Documentation Project. First, this should provide an impression of how a variety of ... : Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 12 (2014): Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden saami DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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An increased awareness of documentary linguists’ ethical responsibilities towards the communities where they work, particularly where languages are endangered, has heightened the importance of providing access to linguistic materials not only to the international academic community, but also to members of the language communities themselves. A local archiving institution (such as a local library or museum) can play a vital role in ensuring such access both now and in the future because it can potentially overcome certain technical and language-based hurdles encountered by some language communities. However, a number of challenges exist in archiving locally due to lack of technical infrastructure and experience, and limited prioritization of language materials. In the following discussion, I describe my own experiences gained in working with local archiving institutions in northern Sweden while carrying out the Pite Saami Documentation Project. First, this should provide an impression of how a variety of ... : Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 12 (2014): Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving ... |
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