Archiving for the Future
Archiving for the Future: Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections is an open educational resource training course designed to teach language documenters, activists, and researchers how to organize, arrange, and archive language documentation, revitalization, and maintenance materials and metadata in a digital repository or language archive. The entire course can be completed in approximately 3-5 hours.
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AILLA’s YouTube Channel
My AILLA team members and I have created a robust library of videos on AILLA’s YouTube Channel about all kinds of topics related to language archiving and documentation. The videos are organized into playlists by topic and language. There are videos in English and Spanish, and we’ve even got some videos with Portuguese subtitles. And they are all licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license, so they can be widely shared and reused by anyone!
Image: Video still from Arrangement by AILLA, 2018, CC BY 4.0
Creative Commons Certificate for Librarians
In the summer of 2020, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to take the Creative Commons Certificate for Librarians course to earn the certificate as part of the June 2020 cohort. All of my submitted assignments are on this page, except for the final essay, which I am revising for future publication.
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My Workshops
I have (co-)created and (co-)facilitated several workshops on archiving language documentation and tangential topics, such as community language archives, writing data management plans for linguistic research, navigating the tricky landscapes of intellectual property and traditional knowledge, and organizing language data collections for archiving. I’ve also facilitated Wikipedia Edit-a-thons and AILLA-specific Archive-a-thons. Information about selected events is found on this page.
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OA for Language Archives?
The expectation that research findings and the data on which those findings are based should be published in Open Access journals and repositories is problematic when those data are, in fact, someone’s linguistic cultural heritage. This working group was convened to develop guidelines for balancing Open Access requirements with other considerations such as privacy issues, laws, and Traditional Knowledge. The major outcome of this project is a multi-authored and peer-reviewed position paper, licensed under CC BY-NC.
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Data Citation & Attribution in Linguistics
Developing Standards for Data Citation and Attribution for Reproducible Research in Linguistics (SMA-1447886, Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Gary Holton, Susan Kung & Peter Pulsifer, Co-PIs) was a project funded by the NSF to develop and promote standards for data citation and attribution for linguistic data. More info is on the project website. Major outcomes include a peer reviewed position paper, the Austin Principles, the Tromsø Recommendations, and a workshop on Writing Data Management Plans for Linguistic Research, all of which are licensed under Creative Commons licenses.
Image: The Data Management Life Cycle for Linguists by Susan Smythe Kung and Jessica Trelogan, 2017, CC BY
Susan Smythe Kung 