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{ "pk": 2988, "title": "Sorting Language Archives Out: Digitization and Its Consequences", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Growing awareness of possibilities created by digital technologies coupled with an increasing concern about endangered languages has led to a wide variety of language revitalization, preservation, and documentation projects. Information professionals, who have played a surprisingly small role in these activities, need to cultivate a greater understanding of the specific needs of groups engaged in digital language projects in order to mediate between digital repositories and users. A review of the data from a field study of an endangered indigenous Thai sign language, Ban Khor Sign, serves as a limit example of the complexity of the documentary interventions grouped under the rubric of “language archive.” The language archive problem demands a total information solution involving informaticists, archivists and museologists, and librarians.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "language documentation" }, { "word": "digital archives" }, { "word": "sign language" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tk1m21z", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stacey", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Meeker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2006-06-14T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2006-06-14T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2006-06-14T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/2988/galley/1784/download/" } ] }