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Semantic Networks and Knowledge Management – Context Does the Trick

Description: With an increasing flood of data and at the same time changing requirements, making the relevant information available in the right context to a customer and within the company for the respective development-, technical- and service-departments is a key success factor for many companies and at the same time an enormous challenge. The problem with folders and filing data in tree structures is that information about an object is scattered across different aspects. Access to this information is o… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Munk, Johannes

Intercultural Perspectives on Information Literacy - a Report on a Transnational Project to Foster Information Literacy

Description: In an increasingly interconnected world, there is a need to prepare students to become more knowledgeable of different cultures and global matters. Furthermore, in a time which is characterized by disinformation, information literacy becomes more important than ever before. By taking into account transnational perspectives in learning these topics, e-learning provides us with the opportunity to connect students who otherwise would not have the chance to meet and get into knowledge related disco… more
Date: June 2022
Creator: Griesbaum, Joachim

Evaluation of Information Representation and Knowledge Organization in Cultural Heritage Organizations in Arabian Gulf Countries: A Case Study of Alqabas Archive

Description: Presentation exploring how information is organized in digital cultural heritage collection in Arabian Gulf countries. Study reveals high metadata quality overall but lack of consistency for many metadata fields, explained in part by the absence of metadata creation guidelines and professional training for metadata creators.
Date: December 4, 2020
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana

Skill-Building in Online Graduate-Level Metadata Instruction through the Prism of Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata

Description: Presentation addressing the need for effective training in metadata creation for library and information science students through an overview of the metadata creation skill-building content of the online introductory graduate metadata course at the University of North Texas, results of the analysis of quality in student-created metadata records, and discussion of how the observed common metadata quality issues might inform curriculum development.
Date: October 21, 2020
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Burke, Mary

Representation of Recorded Knowledge and Extended Date/Time Format: A Case Study of the Digital Public Library of America

Description: This presentation presents results of a study that analyzed representation of dates and time in one of the largest aggregators of digital content in the world -- the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The findings demonstrate both similarities and differences in date and time representation across DPLA content hub and service hub provider groups.
Date: 2015-11-04/2015-11-06
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah

Cross-Language Comparison of Mismatched Annotation in Interlinear-Glossed Texts

Description: This presentation explores the variation in interlinear-glossed text (IGT) in 5 closely related South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages with verb stem alternation, reduplicated adverbial modifiers, and pre-verbal directionals. While IGT is a rich representation of language, IGT for even closely related languages can look markedly different due to individual linguists’ divergent analyses. In comparing the discrepancies between representations of such features, we gain insight into the underlying a… more
Date: January 8, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi

Amplifying Community Voices in Language Archives Through Participatory Archiving

Description: Presentation from a panel, "Considering Individual and Community Contexts Within Information Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Practice," that was held virtually for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). This portion of the panel focuses on the author's research into community-based language research (CBLR) and the Lamkang language.
Date: October 25, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary

Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives

Description: Presentation based on the preliminary results of research into information organization in language archives. This looks at the background of language data and archives, their research questions, archives that were analyzed, their findings, and next steps.
Date: October 21, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana

Investigation of Descriptive Richness of Free-Text Metadata in Language Archives

Description: This presentation introduces language archives and analyzes item‐level metadata in three of them by focusing on free‐text metadata: the Endangered Language Archive, Pacific Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, and the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The study identified categories of information included in Description metadata fields and the relative distribution of these categories.
Date: October 26, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana

Preparing Linguists’ Field Recordings and Datasets for Ingest into a Digital Library System: Lessons from Creating the Lamkang Language Resource at the University of North Texas Digital Library

Description: Presentation on the long term preservation of and universal access to language data which may tap into typologically rare phenomena and which represents the intangible and irreplaceable heritage of indigenous communities. This language data can be in the form of audio, video, picture, and various digital formats. In order to prepare the source files of a documentation project for ingest to a digital library, linguists and digital librarians must develop a common procedure that takes into consid… more
Date: May 23, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward

Archiving Community Work

Description: Presentation on archiving community work in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Post, Mark W.

People, projects and resources on the languages of NE India

Description: Presentation on the authors' research and collection development for the languages in northeastern India. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Coupe, Alexander R. & Sarmah, Priyankoo

Data on Burmic Languages

Description: Presentation on the status of existing data on Burmic langauges, including what medium it is on, whether it is archived, and the level of description it has, from 1971-present. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Bradley, David

Status of Qiangic language data

Description: Presentation on the author's work on the Qiangic languages and relevant work by other researchers. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting for Reporting and Exploring held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: LaPolla, Randy

Archives: Perspectives from Three Scholars of Tibeto-Burman

Description: Presentation on the author's interviews with three scholars of Bodish languages about their experiences, materials, and preservation plans and their reflections on language archives, particularly in regards to accessibility and usability for pedagogy. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Hildebrandt, Kristine

KokBorok

Description: Presentation about the development KokBorok Language Resource as an example of CoRSAL's goal of connecting legacy material with more current audiovisual resources. Samir Debarma describes the status of the KokBorok language; Merrion Dale discusses digitization; Shobhana Chelliah outlines the goals of the Endangered Languages Fund Language Legacies grant. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Debbarma, Samir; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Dale, Merrion

Digital Himalaya: Reflections on obsolescence & regeration

Description: Presentation on Digital Himalaya since its launch in 2010, and how its mission has changed along with technology and sustainability. It was presented at the CoRSAL 4th Annual Meeting held on October 1, 2020.
Date: October 1, 2020
Creator: Turin, Mark

[Presentation on Research of Peter Ives]

Description: Presentation on research interests of the author. This presentation is from the Conference on Language Endangerment and Political Instability held at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx on October 4-6, 2018.
Date: October 4, 2018
Creator: Ives, Peter
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