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Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives

Description: This white paper comprehensively describes the insights that emerged from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives. Key topics include a typology of language archives, the perspectives of stakeholder groups, and improving access to language archives.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

User-Centered Design

Description: 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 slide deck accompanied the presentation by Christina Wasson on user-centered … more
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

Language Archiving: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

Description: 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 slide deck accompanied the presentation by Gary Holton on language archiving. more
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Holton, Gary
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

Stakeholder Groups

Description: 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 slide deck accompanied all presentations by workshop participants on the per… more
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Roy, Loriene; Baldwin, Daryl; Alexander, Edward; Leonard, Wesley Y.; Shepard, Michael; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives: Video 9

Description: 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 continues from Video 8 in documenting discussion on the second day of t… more
Date: February 21, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary; Alexander, Edward; Baldwin, Daryl; Basapur, Santosh; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Transcript Summary 5: Conclusions

Description: This document provides a transcript summary of the fifth and final part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of the concluding discussion at the end of the workshop.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Transcript Summary 2: Individual Presentations by Workshop Participants: Perspectives of Stakeholder Groups

Description: This document provides a transcript summary of the second part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of individual presentations by all workshop participants on the perspectives of stakeholder groups.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Transcript Summary 3: Saturday Discussion

Description: This document provides a transcript summary of the third part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of discussions on the first day of the workshop.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Transcript Summary 4: Sunday Discussion

Description: This document provides a transcript summary of the fourth part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of discussions on the second day of the workshop.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Transcript Summary 1: Introduction and Background

Description: This document provides a transcript summary of the first part of the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains an overview of language archives by Gary Holton and an overview of user-centered design by Christina Wasson.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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STREAMLInED Challenges: Aligning Research Interests with Shared Tasks

Description: This paper describes the use of Shared Task Evaluation Campaigns by designing tasks that are compelling to speech and natural language processing researchers while addressing technical challenges in language documentation and exploiting growing archives of endangered language data.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Levow, Gina-Anne; Bender, Emily M.; Littell, Patrick; Howell, Kristen; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Crowgey, Joshua et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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An Ethnography of a Digital Archive: A Usability Study of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA)

Description: Digital language archives are used for the preservation of documented language data, such as video and voice recordings, transcriptions, survey data, and ethnographic fieldnotes. This data is most often used for research and linguists and anthropologists are generally heavily involved in the creation of language archives. Ideally, Indigenous communities that are represented in the archives are also able to access their data, but this is not always the case, especially if poor internet access an… more
Date: December 2021
Creator: Ewing, Michael
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Shape of Zauzou Noun Phrases: Predicting Reference Type, Classifiers, Demonstratives, Modifiers and Case Marking Using Syntax, Semantics, and Accessibility

Description: What explains the shape of Zauzou noun phrases? Zauzou (Trans-Himalayan, China) noun phrases exhibit considerable diversity in both the choice of the phrase's primary reference type, and the presence of classifiers, demonstratives, modifiers, and case marking. This investigation uses a large, previously existing Zauzou textual corpus. The corpus was annotated for variables hypothesized to predict the variation in noun phrase form. Syntactic variables investigated include word order, subordinati… more
Date: May 2023
Creator: Hull, Benjamin
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Linguistic Archives and Language Communities Questionnaire

Description: Article presenting a questionnaire designed to assess how archival materials can be made more readily available to language communities. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Khait, Ilya; Lukschy, Leonore & Seyfeddinipur, Mandana
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Emerging Role of Libraries in Language Archiving in India A Case Study of SiDHELA

Description: Article highlights the SiDHELA language archive which was developed by the Centre for Endangered Languages and the Central Library at Sikkim University. It was presented at the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on September 30-October 1, 2021 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021.
Date: October 7, 2021
Creator: Narayanan, Karthick & Takhellambam, Meriaba
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives: Audio 2

Description: 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 audio file documents presentations by workshop participants on the perspectiv… more
Date: February 20, 2016
Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 21 seconds
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary; Alexander, Edward; Baldwin, Daryl; Basapur, Santosh; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives: Video 4

Description: 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 final presentations by workshop participants on the persp… more
Date: February 20, 2016
Duration: 33 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary; Alexander, Edward; Baldwin, Daryl; Basapur, Santosh; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives: Video 8

Description: 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 continues from Video 7 in documenting discussion on the second day of t… more
Date: February 21, 2016
Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary; Alexander, Edward; Baldwin, Daryl; Basapur, Santosh; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives: Video 2

Description: 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 presentations by workshop participants on the perspectives of… more
Date: February 20, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary; Alexander, Edward; Baldwin, Daryl; Basapur, Santosh; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives: Audio 3

Description: 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 audio file continues from Audio 2, further documenting presentations by works… more
Date: February 20, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary; Alexander, Edward; Baldwin, Daryl; Basapur, Santosh; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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