This NSF-funded workshop initiated a research trajectory that brings the fields of language archives and user-centered design (UCD) into dialogue, with the goal of improving users’ experiences with language archives and making them more accessible and useful to diverse user groups. The workshop documented perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research. This video documents the last eight minutes of the first workshop discussion topic, which lasted about 1.5 hours. Due to technical issues, the earlier part of the discussion was not successfully videorecorded; it can be found on Audio 3. The discussion topic …
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This NSF-funded workshop initiated a research trajectory that brings the fields of language archives and user-centered design (UCD) into dialogue, with the goal of improving users’ experiences with language archives and making them more accessible and useful to diverse user groups. The workshop documented perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research. This video documents the last eight minutes of the first workshop discussion topic, which lasted about 1.5 hours. Due to technical issues, the earlier part of the discussion was not successfully videorecorded; it can be found on Audio 3. The discussion topic was: who are users and how do they interact with language archives.
This video is part of the following collection of related materials.
User-Centered Design of Language Archives
More than half the world's languages are at risk of no longer being spoken by the end of this century. Language archives can be important resources for language revitalization and research, but need to accommodate the needs of all user groups. This 2016 workshop documented the perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research in this area.
Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary; Alexander, Edward; Baldwin, Daryl; Basapur, Santosh; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives: Video 5,
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February 20, 2016;
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