Accessibility and Digital Language Archives 101

In the long history of archives as repositories of records and information, the issue of accessibility was not especially problematic until relatively recently. Before the digital information age, if someone wanted to consult records in an archive, s/he had to physically go to that archive; if he met the archival institution’s requirements, he was allowed access to the records. There were, of course, access restrictions on certain records or collections, but these restrictions were noted in the collection guides and/or catalogs. Thus, the physical distance between the user and the archive was the primary reason for lack of access to archival materials, and the archivist served as the gatekeeper between the user and the records. With the advent of the Internet, the increase in born-digital data, and the widespread use of WiFi technology, digital information has become extraordinarily easy to find or discover. Every year more and more archives make some or all of their holdings—or at least their metadata—available to an increasingly broader audience via the Internet, thus eliminating the physical distance between the user and the archive. Today passwords and digital security protocols—not archivists—are the gatekeepers of archival information. However, while the archival materials are easier to find or discover than they ever were before, issues surrounding the accessibility of these materials are becoming more and more difficult to negotiate. In this poster, I examine issues of accessibility that digital language archives have to address on a daily basis. I consider how accessibility issues interact with access restrictions, intellectual property rights, copyright, and questions of informed consent. I highlight some examples of governmental and institutional requirements, as well as examples of speech community requirements, and illustrate how these various requirements interact with the accessibility of archival materials. Finally, I present some ways in which issues of accessibility interact with a researcher’s decision to entrust language data to local versus non-local archives

Consent, Rights, and Intellectual Property: Navigating Language Documentation, Archiving, and Research

Colang 2016 Workshop Syllabus Workshop Title: Consent, Rights, and Intellectual Property: Navigating Language Documentation, Archiving, and Research2015 NSF/BCS 1500841: CoLang 2016: Institute on Collaborative Language ResearchNon

The archive of the indigenous languages of Latin America : An overview

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a repository of primarily linguistic and anthropological data about the indigenous languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. In this article we give a brief description of the archive and its mission in Section 1, and we discuss the predecessors and precursors to AILLA in Section 2, and the importance of AILLA in Section 3. In Section 4 we highlight a few of the large and publicly accessible collections, and in Section 5 we illustrate some of the ways in which teachers, professors, researchers, and indigenous community members have used data archived at AILLA.Not

23. Navigating Consent, Rights, and Intellectual Property (A, D, E)

This course is intended for anyone (community members, language teachers, archives users, students, faculty, senior researchers) of any level who wants to have a better understanding of how consent, permission, intellectual property, cultural property, traditional knowledge and copyright interact with each other and how they affect language researchers, community members, archive staff and the general public. The class will be organized into a combination of lecture and open discussion about the above-named concepts, as well as other concepts such as open versus public access, fair use, public domain, terms and conditions of use, access embargos, access restrictions, access protocols, attribution, etc. To contextualize the class content, we will explore various real and hypothetical scenarios to illustrate processes and legislature that control access and articulate rights and property

02. Archiving for the Future (A, D, E)

This workshop is based on the open educational resource (OER) Archiving for the Future: Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections (Kung et al. 2020), a short course designed to aid people of all backgrounds to confidently organize born-digital and digitized language materials and data for deposit into any digital repository or language archive for long-term preservation and accessibility. Workshop participants will learn 9 simple steps that they can do before, during, and after creating or collecting language materials; these steps will help them to understand data management, organization, and curation, which in turn will facilitate the deposit of language documentation materials in a digital repository or language archive. Participants will learn Differences between digital repositories and other types of storage or sharing platforms Ethical and legal considerations throughout data creation and archiving Data management strategies (e.g., file-naming strategies, informed consent, metadata collection, strategic file organization) Collection planning to facilitate re-use (e.g., identifying target users and creating collection guides) Strategies for managing access to sensitive data (e.g., access restriction techniques at various language archives and managing access in perpetuity)

The challenge of olfactory ideophones : Reconsidering ineffability from the Totonac-Tepehua perspective

Olfactory impressions are said to be ineffable, but little systematic exploration has been done to substantiate this. We explored olfactory language in Huehuetla Tepehua—a Totonac-Tepehua language spoken in Hidalgo, Mexico—which has a large inventory of ideophones, words with sound-symbolic properties used to describe perceptuomotor experiences. A multi-method study found Huehuetla Tepehua has 45 olfactory ideophones, illustrating intriguing sound-symbolic alternation patterns. Elaboration in the olfactory domain is not unique to this language; related Totonac-Tepehua languages also have impressive smell lexicons. Comparison across these languages shows olfactory and gustatory terms overlap in interesting ways, mirroring the physiology of smelling and tasting. However, although cognate taste terms are formally similar, olfactory terms are less so. We suggest the relative instability of smell vocabulary in comparison with those of taste likely results from the more varied olfactory experiences caused by the mutability of smells in different environments

OS ACERVOS E A DOCUMENTAÇÃO LINGUÍSTICA

This article is derived from a conference at the ABRALIN ao vivo, held online, in 2020. The goal is to discuss the benefits and challenges associated with archiving in language documentation considering our accumulated knowledge as scholars who are deeply involved in administering, contributing to, and drawing on language archives, with an emphasis on the indigenous languages of Latin America. We focus in particular on the relevance of language archiving in Brazil, and its significance for scholars, community members, and other stakeholders.Este artigo é oriundo de uma conferência na ABRALIN ao vivo, realizada online, em 2020. O objetivo é discutir os benefícios e desafios associados à documentação e criação de acervos linguísticos considerando nosso conhecimento acumulado como pesquisadores profundamente envolvidos na administração e manutenção de acervos de línguas, com ênfase nas línguas indígenas da América Latina. Focamos na relevância de acervos linguísticos no Brasil e sua importância para a comunidade acadêmica, membros de comunidades indígenas e outras partes interessadas

From Passion to Published

Have you been wondering how to get that picture book idea out of your head, onto the page, into an editor’s hands, and onto bookstore and library shelves? Join a diverse panel of picture book writers whose first books debuted in 2020 and 2021 as they talk about the ins and outs of writing, submitting, and publishing your first picture book with a traditional publisher. Whether you want to write fiction or nonfiction, write or illustrate–or both!–these book creators have tips and inspiration that will help you along your path to getting published

Workshop on Data Management Plans for Linguistic Research

The rising tide of data management and sharing requirements from funding agencies, publishers, and institutions has created a new set of pressures for researchers who are already stretched for time and funds. While it can feel like yet another set of painful hurdles, in reality, the process of creating a Data Management Plan (DMP) can be a surprisingly useful exercise, especially when done early in a project’s lifecycle. Good data management, practiced throughout one’s career, can save time, money, and frustration, while ultimately helping increase the impacts of research. This 1-day workshop will involve lecture and discussion around concepts of data management throughout the data lifecycle (from data creation, storage, and analysis to data sharing, archiving, and reusing), as well as related issues such as intellectual property, copyright, open access, data citation, attribution, and metrics. Participants will learn about data management best practices and useful tools while engaging in activities designed to produce a DMP similar to those desired by the NSF Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division (for example, Linguistics, Documenting Endangered Languages), as well as other federal agencies such as NEH. Participants should come with a real or hypothetical project in mind; at the end of the workshop, they will have bullet points for a draft of a DMP designed specifically for that project

Sec24p and Sec16p cooperate to regulate the GTP cycle of the COPII coat

Vesicle budding from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) employs a cycle of GTP binding and hydrolysis to regulate assembly of the COPII coat. We have identified a novel mutation (sec24‐m11) in the cargo‐binding subunit, Sec24p, that specifically impacts the GTP‐dependent generation of vesicles in vitro. Using a high‐throughput approach, we defined genetic interactions between sec24‐m11 and a variety of trafficking components of the early secretory pathway, including the candidate COPII regulators, Sed4p and Sec16p. We defined a fragment of Sec16p that markedly inhibits the Sec23p‐ and Sec31p‐stimulated GTPase activity of Sar1p, and demonstrated that the Sec24p‐m11 mutation diminished this inhibitory activity, likely by perturbing the interaction of Sec24p with Sec16p. The consequence of the heightened GTPase activity when Sec24p‐m11 is present is the generation of smaller vesicles, leading to accumulation of ER membranes and more stable ER exit sites. We propose that association of Sec24p with Sec16p creates a novel regulatory complex that retards the GTPase activity of the COPII coat to prevent premature vesicle scission, pointing to a fundamental role for GTP hydrolysis in vesicle release rather than in coat assembly/disassembly