User needs in language archives: Findings from interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title User needs in language archives: Findings from interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users

Creator

  • Author: Burke, Mary
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: University of North Texas
  • Author: Zavalina, Oksana
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: University of North Texas
  • Author: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: University of North Texas
  • Author: Phillips, Mark Edward
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: University of North Texas

Publisher

  • Name: University of Hawaii (System). Press.

Date

  • Creation: 2022-04

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This article is an exploratory study providing empirical data on language archive user needs and supports some anecdotal evidence of known issues facing language archive end-users, depositors, and managers in primarily academic contexts.
  • Physical Description: 24 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: web archiving
  • Keyword: digital libraries
  • Keyword: archives users

Source

  • Journal: Language Documentation & Conservation, 16, University of Hawaii Press, April 2022, pp. 1-24

Citation

  • Publication Title: Language Documentation & Conservation
  • Volume: 16
  • Peer Reviewed: True

Collection

  • Name: UNT Scholarly Works
    Code: UNTSW

Institution

  • Name: University of North Texas
    Code: UNTX

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: by-nc

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74669
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1953946

Degree

  • Academic Department: Information Science
  • Academic Department: Linguistics
  • Academic Department: Digital Libraries & External Relations

Note

  • Display Note: Abstract: Language archives, like other scholarly digital repositories, are built with two major audiences in mind. These are depositors of language data and various potential end-users of these materials: researchers (linguistics and others), language communities, students, educators, artists, etc. Being a relatively new phenomenon, language archives have made significant strides forward in providing access to digital language data. With the purpose of identifying the needs of language archive end-users (both met and currently unmet), our interdisciplinary team of linguists and information scientists interviewed language archive managers, end-users, and depositors. This study offers a first look into the decision-making processes and end-user experiences of these groups. To support the continued development of language archives, the exploratory study reported in this article provides empirical data on language archive user needs and supports some anecdotal evidence of known issues facing language archive end-users, depositors, and managers in primarily academic contexts.
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