{"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/"}]}