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Archives and audiences: toward making endangered language documentations people
can read, use, understand, and admire
Tony WoodburyUniversity of Texas at Austin
LDLT 3ELAR Workshop on Language Documentation
and ArchivingSOAS, London
18 November, 2011
Introduction
Who are (or could be) the audiences?
Proposals for language documenters
Proposals for language documenters
• Consider BOOK AUTHORSHIP as a model
Proposals for language documenters
• Consider BOOK AUTHORSHIP as a model• Create a guide to the collection, corpus, or
documentation
Proposals for language documenters
• Consider BOOK AUTHORSHIP as a model• Create a guide to the collection, corpus, or
documentation • Describe the theorization or design of the corpus
Proposals for language documenters
• Consider BOOK AUTHORSHIP as a model• Create a guide to the collection, corpus, or
documentation • Describe the theorization or design of the corpus • Be conscious of genre
Proposals for language documenters
• Consider BOOK AUTHORSHIP as a model• Create a guide to the collection, corpus, or
documentation • Describe the theorization or design of the corpus • Be conscious of genre • Write narratives, logs, and journals
Proposals for language documenters
• Consider BOOK AUTHORSHIP as a model• Create a guide to the collection, corpus, or
documentation • Describe the theorization or design of the corpus • Be conscious of genre • Write narratives, logs, and journals
Proposals for archivists
Proposals for archivists
• Consider an ART MUSEUM as a model
Proposals for archivists
• Consider an ART MUSEUM as a model• Make collections clear and visible
Proposals for archivists
• Consider an ART MUSEUM as a model• Make collections clear and visible • Ensure that collections have guides and explicit
theorization (even if not available from producers or original sources)
Proposals for archivists
• Consider an ART MUSEUM as a model• Make collections clear and visible • Ensure that collections have guides and explicit
theorization (even if not available from producers or original sources)
• Consider launching temporary exhibitions
Proposals for archivists
• Consider an ART MUSEUM as a model• Make collections clear and visible • Ensure that collections have guides and explicit
theorization (even if not available from producers or original sources)
• Consider launching temporary exhibitions
Proposals for audiences
Proposals for audiences
• Consider the CRITIC as a model
Proposals for audiences
• Consider the CRITIC as a model• Journal editors can commission reviews of language
documentations and offer criteria or guidelines for the reviews
Proposals for audiences
• Consider the CRITIC as a model• Journal editors can commission reviews of language
documentations and offer criteria or guidelines for the reviews
• Documenters or archivists or anyone at-large can volunteer to write reviews, letting review criteria emerge from the task at hand
Proposals for audiences
• Consider the CRITIC as a model• Journal editors can commission reviews of language
documentations and offer criteria or guidelines for the reviews
• Documenters or archivists or anyone at-large can volunteer to write reviews, letting review criteria emerge from the task at hand
• Other documentation users can likewise establish criteria and perspectives for evaluating language documentary corpora
Proposals for audiences
• Consider the CRITIC as a model• Journal editors can commission reviews of language
documentations and offer criteria or guidelines for the reviews
• Documenters or archivists or anyone at-large can volunteer to write reviews, letting review criteria emerge from the task at hand
• Other documentation users can likewise establish criteria and perspectives for evaluating language documentary corpora
Conclusion
Conclusion
There is much, much to be done!
The end