Digital Language Archiving: Reuse and Adaptation of Non-LIS Learning Materials in LIS Education
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https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1736Keywords:
Digital Language Archives, Graduate Education, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, Archiving for the Future, Collaborative Digital Language Archiving CurriculumAbstract
As a digital repository type of growing prominence, language archives need qualified information professionals to maintain and provide access to their rich collections. Yet, awareness of digital language archives among the US LIS professionals and educators is currently low. Our project’s analysis of available relevant training materials for linguists and community members informed the development of a graduate course that prepares LIS professionals for effective and ethical stewardship of digital language archives. In this paper, following a brief literature review of the latest relevant research and publications, results of examination of three major sources of language archiving learning materials are presented and discussed. This discussion’s focus is on the ideas for reuse and adaptation of these materials in LIS education and on implementation of some of these ideas in our project-developed course at the University of North Texas.
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