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Preface

Description: Preface to Knowledge Discovery and Data Design Innovation: Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM 2017), Dallas, Texas, USA, 25-26 October 2017.
Date: October 19, 2017
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Allen, Jeff M. & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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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
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
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
Partner: UNT College of Information
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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
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
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
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
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Curation as Collective Practice: Archiving the Inga-Lil Hansson Akha Materials

Description: Article discussing the archival curation of re- search material collected by professor Inga-Lill Hansson from 1974 to 2022 through extensive fieldwork on the Akha language. It describes the relationship-centered collaboration between Hansson’s network and the archiving team, the gradual curation workflow, and reflect on the technical, interpretive, and ethical decisions required to make a single scholar’s lifetime of work discoverable and responsibly reusable. It was presented at the 3rd Intern… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Benavides, Jose; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Borch, Søren; Burke, Mary & Weber, Sydney
Partner: UNT College of Information
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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
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
Partner: UNT College of Information
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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
Partner: UNT College of Information
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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
Partner: UNT College of Information
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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
Partner: UNT College of Information

Low-Resource Diabetic Retinopathy Screening via AUM-ST with Vision Transformer

Description: Poster proposing a semi-supervised Vision Transformer with AUM-ST that enhances diabetic retinopathy screening accuracy in low-resource healthcare environments. It was presented at the 2025 Texas Health Informatics Alliance Conference held on September 26, 2025 by the University of Texas at Arlington.
Date: September 26, 2025
Creator: Badhon, S. M. Saiful Islam; Rikka, Praneeth; Cleveland, Ana D., 1943- & Hossain, K. S. M. Tozammel
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Refugee Communities' Archival Needs in a CoRSAL Context

Description: Video recording of Ana Roeschley and Merrion Dale Frederick discuss the concept of "the burden of documentation" for refugees who have faced oppression and ethnic cleansing and how it is not addressed in archival practices. They further discuss how bettering protocols for researchers can alleviate the burden. Presented at the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 8th Annual Planning Meeting.
Date: October 4, 2024
Duration: 20 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Roeschley, Ana & Frederick, Merrion Dale
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Profile of a Language Documentation Project

Description: Video recording of Sadaf Munshi discussing the process of documenting endangered languages in Northern Pakistan. She discusses the realities of documenting languages in areas restricted from the world, but also how important it is. Presented at the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 8th Annual Planning Meeting.
Date: October 4, 2024
Duration: 21 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Creating Infrastructure for Digital Libraries

Description: Video recording of Mark Phillips demonstrating various tools and infrastructures being built at UNT to support projects like CoRSAL and other digital projects. Presented at the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages' (CoRSAL) 8th Annual Planning Meeting.
Date: October 4, 2024
Duration: 25 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Panel on the Nexus of Knowledge Management and Information Science: What Past and Present Trends Tell Us About the Future

Description: This panel brings together leaders from knowledge management and information science to discuss the trends and opportunities for collaboration within and between these fields.
Date: November 10, 2018
Creator: Freeburg, Darin; Liebowitz, Jay; Marchionini, Gary; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Makani, Joyline & Sappington, Jayne
Partner: UNT College of Information
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