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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
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Introduction
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Who are (or could be) the audiences?
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Proposals for language documenters
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Proposals for language documenters
• Consider BOOK AUTHORSHIP as a model
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Proposals for language documenters
• Consider BOOK AUTHORSHIP as a model• Create a guide to the collection, corpus, or
documentation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Proposals for archivists
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Proposals for archivists
• Consider an ART MUSEUM as a model
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Proposals for archivists
• Consider an ART MUSEUM as a model• Make collections clear and visible
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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)
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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
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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
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Proposals for audiences
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Proposals for audiences
• Consider the CRITIC as a model
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Conclusion
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Conclusion
There is much, much to be done!
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The end