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Building a Framework of Metadata Change to Support Knowledge Management

Description: Article defining ways that metadata records might change (addition, deletion, or modification) and describing a study to evaluate multiple versions of selected records in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections to observe the types and frequency of various changes.
Date: April 17, 2015
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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An Exploratory Study of the Description Field in the Digital Public Library of America

Description: This paper presents results of an exploratory, quantitative analysis regarding the application of a free-text Description metadata element and data values associated with this element within aggregated metadata harvested from the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Date: October 14, 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana & Phillips, Mark Edward
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How Descriptive Metadata Changes in the UNT Libraries' Collections: A Case Study

Description: Paper describing the results of initial research to evaluate general information about how records change in a digital library, using the UNT digital collections as a sample set. The analysis looked at several key concepts including the number of records that have been edited, the number of edits per record, the number of editors per record, the amount of change in file size and in completeness (i.e., values in required fields), and changes in access to digital objects.
Date: 2014
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Shakeri, Shadi
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Welcome from the LangArc-2025 Workshop Organizers

Description: Proceedings introduction for the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc-2025). It provides an overview of the workshop and proceedings which focus on a wide range of issues related to digital language archives. The workshop was held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025.
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Burke, Mary
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc-2025

Description: Conference proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025. It includes 11 peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the workshop and an introduction from the workshop organizers.
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Burke, Mary
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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The digital language archive as a platform for exploring language data, analyses, and publications

Description: Article outlining a platform for a digital language archive which integrates original data, analyses, and publications. Thereby, the digital language archive becomes the host and facilitator of research, which supports the integrity of research projects. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025.
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Weber, Tobias
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Advancing Language Revitalization Goals Through Community-based Archiving

Description: Article examining how community-based archiving initiatives reflect language revitalization goals through a case study of an archival collection created by community members engaged in revitalization efforts. Understanding the decision-making and intentions behind such collections provides insight and guidance for future community-based archiving projects. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint C… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Burke, Mary
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Assessing the Impact of Image Resolution on OCR Transcription Accuracy

Description: Article investigating the relationship between image resolution and OCR (optical character recognition) performance, with a focus on both character-level accuracy and the integrity of subsequent text processing pipelines. The findings have practical implications for document digitization workflows, especially in resource-constrained environments where high-resolution image storage and processing may be questionable. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Boubehziz, Toufik; Koudoro-Parfait, Caroline & Lejeune, Gaël
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Training Future Librarians and Archivists to Create and Describe Digital Language Archive Collections

Description: Article presenting a major practical project to provide training in language archiving for future information professionals. In this course, graduate students in library science, information science, archival studies, and other disciplines learn to create the items for their own collections of language-focused materials, provide metadata to describe items, and make collections available through the Omeka-powered digital repository. The learning objectives of this project are discussed and compa… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Learning to Assess Use of Materials in Language Archival Collections

Description: Article on presenting a learning module for a graduate course on community language archiving for information professionals offered at the University of North Texas. The focus of the practical assignment in which students evaluate digital language archive usage through comparative analyses of stratified random samples and interpret their findings. It reports selected results of this learning in a summer semester of 2024/2025 academic year and discusses future steps. It was presented at the 3rd … more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Savchenko, Viktoriia & Savchenko, Kostiantyn
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A Short Reflection on the Long History of Language Archives

Description: Article presenting a historical narrative surrounding the term language archives. Three elements are highlighted: (1) the history of the use of the term, (2) the sociological connections between individual voices central to the modern development of language archives, (3) the evolution of metadata schemes across institutions in newly established language archives. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Paterson, Hugh, III
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Community Archiving Across Languages: Strategies and Tools for Multilingual Praxis

Description: Article describing how the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico / Emergency Archive of Puerto Rico (AREPR) team put its values into praxis through participatory design of both the project’s collections and the platform in which they are housed. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025.
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Boyles, Christina
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Replicating hospitality: Reframing a documentary linguistics digital archiving curriculum to meet the needs of refugees and their service workers

Description: Article detailing the development of the Archiving Our Refugee Stories (ORSA) curriculum, adapted from CoRSAL’s existing digital archiving curriculum. The ORSA is an emerging repository created by and for refugees to house their memories and equip them with the knowledge and skills to preserve their stories. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025.
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Frederick, Merrion; Roeschley, Ana; Brown, Nathan; Braga, Damares & Khader, Deama
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Enhancing Photograph Description in Language Archive Metadata with Artificial Intelligence

Description: Article presenting a project in which generative AI was utilized to enhance free-text descriptions in metadata records that represent a typical kind of resources in language archives: photographs. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025.
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Zavalin, Vyacheslav
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Finding Metadata for Digital Archiving in Linguistic Fieldnotes

Description: Article examining how digital language archives can address challenges of legacy field materials through a case study from the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL), a repository dedicated to preserving and documenting the languages of South Asia. It focuses on two CoRSAL legacy projects: the curation of Norman Zide’s extensive collection on the Munda languages of north-central India (Gutob, Gta’, Korku, and Mundari), and the classroom fieldnotes of James Matisoff on Tibeto-… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Lowe, John Brandon & Fos, Jonas
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Designing Archival Collections to Support Language Revitalization: Case Study of the Boro Language Resource

Description: Indigenous communities around the world are losing their languages at accelerating rates to the effects of the climate crisis and global capitalism. To preserve samples of these languages facing endangerment and extinction, samples of language use (e.g., audio-video recordings, photographs, textual transcriptions, translations, and analyses) are created and stored in language archives: repositories intended to provide long-term preservation of and access to language materials. In recent years, … more
Date: May 2023
Creator: Burke, Mary
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Developing an Empirically-Based Framework of Metadata Change and Exploring Relation Between Metadata Change and Metadata Quality in Marc Library Metadata

Description: This paper from International Conference on Knowledge Management, ICKM 2016 conference proceedings seeks to test and refine the metadata change framework initially developed for characterizing the change in digital library metadata, in the study of traditional library metadata.
Date: September 27, 2016
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Zavalin, Vyacheslav; Shakeri, Shadi & Kizhakkethil, Priya
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Findings Pertaining to the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections

Description: This paper discusses the findings pertaining to the framework for building good digital collections. This paper is part of the three-year interim project report for the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project, summarizing major findings October 2002 through September 2005.
Date: October 2006
Creator: Cole, Timothy W.; Jackson, Amy S.; Palmer, Carole L.; Shreeves, Sarah L.; Twidale, Michael B. & Zavalina, Oksana
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