Table of contents
  1. Materials for Teaching, Training and Workshops
    1. Curriculum for 10-week course
      1. Week 1: History of Endangered Language Documentation and the Development of Digital Language Archives
        1. Week 1: TOPICS and ASSIGNMENTS
        2. READINGS for WEEK 1
        3. ONLINE RESOURCES for WEEK 1
      2. Readings

Materials for Teaching, Training and Workshops

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Curriculum for 10-week course

Week 1: History of Endangered Language Documentation and the Development of Digital Language Archives

Week 1: TOPICS and ASSIGNMENTS

  Week 1
TOPICS * Introduction to Language Documentation & Digital Archiving
  * Introduction to PARADISEC
  * Exploring the services provided by PARADISEC
  * Overview of the content held within PARADISEC and the archive structure
  * How to archive with PARADISEC
   
READINGS (Links found here) 1. Himmelmann “Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics” (35 pp)
  2. Hanke & Berez-Kroeker “A Brief History of Archiving in Language Documentation with an Annotated Bibliography” (47 pp)
  3. Berez-Kroeker & Hanke “Language Archiving” (Oxford Handbook) (26 pp)
  4. Meakins-Green-Turpin “Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork” (EXCERPT 1: Section 4.4: Archiving) (12 pp: 83-95)
  5. Meakins-Green-Turpin “Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork” (EXCERPT 2: Section 2.4: Ways of working in the field) (7 pp: 28-34)
  6. IASA_TC03 “The Safeguarding of the Audiovisual Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy” (20 pp)
   
ONLINE RESOURCES * PARADISEC Workflow “Getting started with PARADISEC”: https://paradisec-archive.github.io/PARADISEC_workflows/02_getting-started.html
  * PARADISEC Catalog: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/
  * Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR): https://www.elararchive.org/
  * The Language Archive (TLA), specifically the DOBES collections: https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/islandora/object/tla%3A1839_00_0000_0000_0001_305B_C
  * TK (Traditional Knowledge) Labels: https://localcontexts.org/labels/traditional-knowledge-labels/

READINGS for WEEK 1

ONLINE RESOURCES for WEEK 1

Readings

Berez-Kroeker, A. L., Gawne, L., Kung, S. S., Kelly, B. F., Heston, T., Holton, G., Pulsifer, P., Beaver, D. I., Chelliah, S., Dubinsky, S., Meier, R. P., Thieberger, N., Rice, K., & Woodbury, A. C. (2018). Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field. Linguistics,56(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0032

Berez-Kroeker, A. L., Hanke, R.E. (2018). Language Archiving. In K. Rehg and L. Campbel (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages. Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190610029.013.18

Brewer, A. (2020). Pragmatic Audiovisual Preservation (DPC Technology Watch Report, p. 45). Digital Preservation Coalition. https://doi.org/10.7207/twr20-10

Butterworth, J., Pearson, A., Sutherland, P., & Farquhar, A. (Eds.). (2018). Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations. Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0138

Casey, M. (2019). Quality Control for Media Digitization Projects. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal, 50. https://doi.org/10.35320/ij.v0i50.92

Casey, M., & Gordon, B. (2007). Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation. Sound Directions. http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/papersPresent/index.shtml

FADGI Audio-Visual Working Group. (2021). Guidelines for Embedding Metadata in Broadcast WAVE Files, version 3 (p. 30). Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI). http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-embedding.html

Fleischhauer, C., & Bradley, K. (2019). IASA-TC06: Guidelines for the Preservation of Video Recordings, v2019 (IASA Technical Publications IASA-TC06; Technical Committee Standards, Recommended Practices, and Strategies, p. 336). International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. https://www.iasa-web.org/tc06/guidelines-preservation-video-recordings

Harris, A., Gagau, S., Kell, J., Thieberger, N., & Ward, N. (2019). Making Meaning of Historical Papua New Guinea Recordings. International Journal of Digital Curation, 14(1), 136–149. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v14i1.598

Henke, R. E., & Berez-Kroeker, A. L. (2016). A Brief History of Archiving in Language Documentation, with an Annotated Bibliography. Language Documentation & Conservation, 10, 47. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24714

Himmelmann, Nickolaus. (1998). Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics. Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences (36)1, 161-195. Mouton de Gruyter. https://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/linguistik/Personen/ASW/Himmelmann/Publikationen/1996-2000/Documentary_and_Descriptive_Linguistics1998a.pdf

IASA-TC03: The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy, 4th edition (IASA Technical Publications IASA-TC03; Technical Committee Standards, Recommended Practices, and Strategies, p. 21). (2017). International Association of Sound Archives and Audiovisual Archives. https://www.iasa-web.org/tc03/ethics-principles-preservation-strategy

IASA-TC04: Guidelines on the production and preservation on digital audio objects: Standards, recommended practices and strategies, 2nd edition (IASA Technical Publications IASA-TC04; Technical Committee Standards, Recommended Practices, and Strategies, p. 156). (2009). International Association of Sound and Audiovisual. https://www.iasa-web.org/tc04/audio-preservation

IASA-TC05: Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers. Dietrich Schüller and Albrecht Häfner (eds.). First edition. (2014). https://www.iasa-web.org/handling-storage-tc05

IASA-TC06: Guidelines for the Preservation of Video Recordings, Part B: Video Signal, Preservation Concepts, and Target Formats, edition I, revised version 2019. (2019). https://www.iasa-web.org/sites/default/files/publications/IASA-TC_06-B_v2019.pdf

Meakins, F., Green, J., & Turpin, M. (2018). Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203701294

Poynton, C. (1997). Frequently Asked Questions about Color (p. 24). https://poynton.ca/PDFs/ColorFAQ.pdf

Poynton, C. (2008). Chroma subsampling notation (p. 3). https://poynton.ca/PDFs/Chroma_subsampling_notation.pdf

Richardson, I. E. (2017). Video Compression Codecs: A Survival Guide. International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal, 47, 14. https://doi.org/10.35320/ij.v0i47.51

Schüller, D., & Häfner, A. (2014). IASA-TC05: Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers, 1st edition (IASA Technical Publications IASA-TC05; Technical Committee Standards, Recommended Practices, and Strategies, p. 62). International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. https://www.iasa-web.org/tc05/handling-storage-audio-video-carriers

Seyfeddinipur, M., Ameka, F., Bolton, L., Blumtritt, J., Carpenter, B., Cruz, H., Drude, S., Epps, P., Ferreira, V., Galucio, A. V., Hellwig, B., Hinte, O., Holton, G., Jung, D., Kasinskaite Buddeberg, I., Krifka, M., Kung, S., Monroig, M., Neba, A. N., … Woodbury, T. (2019). Public access to research data in language documentation: Challenges and possible strategies. Language Documentation and Conservation, 13, 19. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24901

Thieberger, N., & Berez, A. L. (2011). Linguistic Data Management. In N. Thieberger (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199571888.013.0005

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