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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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[College of Engineering fall 2025 commencement ceremony]

Description: Video of the fall 2025 College of Engineering commencement ceremony held at the University of North Texas in the Coliseum. The video starts with a short promotional feature for the Better Look North campaign followed by a Christmas-themed jazz rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Another feature is shown depicting student's journey from acceptance to the University of North Texas, various experiences at the University, and finally arriving at a workplace, followed by a video of graduates discussing the… more
Date: December 14, 2025
Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[College of Information fall 2025 commencement ceremony]

Description: Video of the fall 2025 College of Information commencement ceremony held at the University of North Texas in the Coliseum. The video starts with a short promotional feature for the Better Look North campaign followed by a Christmas-themed jazz rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Another feature is shown depicting student's journey from acceptance to the University of North Texas, various experiences at the University, and finally arriving at a workplace, followed by a video of graduates discussing the… more
Date: December 14, 2025
Duration: 2 hours 33 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[College of Business fall 2025 commencement ceremony, Part I]

Description: Video of the Fall 2025 College of Business I commencement ceremony held at the University of North Texas in the Coliseum. The video starts with a short promotional feature for the Better Look North campaign followed by a Christmas-themed jazz rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Another feature is shown depicting student's journey from acceptance to the University of North Texas, various experiences at the University, and finally arriving at a workplace, followed by a video of graduates discussing thei… more
Date: December 13, 2025
Duration: 2 hours 8 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[College of Business fall 2025 commencement ceremony, Part II]

Description: Video of the fall 2025 College of Business II commencement ceremony held at the University of North Texas in the Coliseum. The video starts with a short promotional feature for the Better Look North campaign followed by a Christmas-themed jazz rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Another feature is shown depicting student's journey from acceptance to the University of North Texas, various experiences at the University, and finally arriving at a workplace, followed by a video of graduates discussing the… more
Date: December 13, 2025
Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[College of Science fall 2025 commencement ceremony]

Description: Video of the Fall 2025 College of Science commencement ceremony held at the University of North Texas in the Coliseum. The video starts with a short promotional feature for the Better Look North campaign followed by a Christmas-themed jazz rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Another feature is shown depicting student's journey from acceptance to the University of North Texas, various experiences at the University, and finally arriving at a workplace, followed by a video of graduates discussing their U… more
Date: December 13, 2025
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Doctoral and Master of Fine Arts fall 2025 commencement ceremony]

Description: Video of the fall 2025 Doctoral and Master of Fine Arts fall 2025 commencement ceremony held at the University of North Texas in the Coliseum. The video starts with a short promotional feature for the Better Look North campaign followed by a Christmas-themed jazz rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Another feature is shown depicting student's journey from acceptance to the University of North Texas, various experiences at the University, and finally arriving at a workplace, followed by a video of grad… more
Date: December 13, 2025
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[College of Applied and Collaborative Studies and the College of Health and Public Service fall 2025 commencement ceremony]

Description: Video of the Fall 2025 College of Applied and Collaborative Studies and the College of Health and Public Service commencement ceremony held at the University of North Texas in the Coliseum. The video starts with a short promotional feature for the Better Look North campaign followed by a Christmas-themed jazz rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Another feature is shown depicting student's journey from acceptance to the University of North Texas, various experiences at the University, and finally arriv… more
Date: December 12, 2025
Duration: 2 hours 11 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[College of Education, College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism, and College of Visual Arts and Design fall 2025 commencement ceremony]

Description: Video of the Fall 2025 College of Education, College of Merchandising, Hospitality, and Tourism, and College of Visual Arts and Design commencement ceremony held at the University of North Texas in the Coliseum. The video starts with a short promotional feature for the Better Look North campaign followed by a Christmas-themed jazz rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Another feature is shown depicting student's journey from acceptance to the University of North Texas, various experiences at the Univers… more
Date: December 12, 2025
Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences fall 2025 commencement ceremony]

Description: Video of the Fall 2025 College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences commencement ceremony held at the University of North Texas in the Coliseum. The video starts with a short promotional feature for the Better Look North campaign followed by a Christmas-themed jazz rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Another feature is shown depicting student's journey from acceptance to the University of North Texas, various experiences at the University, and finally arriving at a workplace, followed by a video of gra… more
Date: December 12, 2025
Duration: 2 hours 27 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Notable Latinx/e Comics Collections in the United States

Description: Article offering a list and descriptions of a few of the notable Latinx/e comics collections in academic libraries in the US that are available to researchers, and offers tips on how to access, search, and utilize these collections. We also note some of the challenges faced by researchers in identifying and locating specific works or artists due to differences in cataloging practices, controlled vocabularies, and the historical marginalization of Latinx/e creators.
Date: December 12, 2025
Creator: Robb, Jenny E. & Martin, John Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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