About
In this workshop participants will develop an understanding of best practices as they apply to creating and maintaining digital language resources with an emphasis on digital archiving and accessibility. The workshop includes an introduction to best practices, how to decide what to archive, how to create digital resources, and time permitting, basic web design to facilitate access to resources in a digital archive. At the end of the workshop participants will have a basic understanding of archival development and an understanding of the resources available to develop digital language resources. No archiving or web development experience or knowledge required.Contact Info:
Amy Fountain avf@email.arizona.edu
Shannon Bischoff bischoff.st@gmail.com
Reading Materials
- Native Language Preservation: A Reference Guide for Establishing Archives and Repositories
- Chapter 2: What to Preserve
- Chapter 3: What is a Language Repository
- Chapter 4: How to Build Infrastructure
- TAPS: Checklist for Responsible Archiving of Digital Language Resources
- Protocols for Native American Archival Materials
- The Digital Divide
- Best Practices
What First?
Exercises
Links
Online Resources- Digital Resource Guide
- Indigenous Language and Technology Listserve
- w3schools Free Online Web Development Training
- w3schools w3schools Firt HTML Lessons
- Creating Online Language Resources
- List of Unicode Characters
- Search for a Unicode Characters
- Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MKLC)
- How to make a keyboard with the MKLC
- Ukelele KeyLayoutMaker for Mac
- Keyman Keyboards (someone may have made a keyboard for your language)
- Dublin Core and Metadata
- The Language Archive Max Planck Institute: Metadata
- Finding an archive for your language data
- Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights