archives and audiences: toward making endangered language documentations people can read, use,...

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