Endangered languages and digital archiving

I was recently re-reading the 2016 paper by Ryan E. Henke and Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker on “A Brief History of Archiving in Language Documentation, with an Annotated Bibliography” when I realised how many of the references in their bibliography, and indeed several others dealing specifically with digital archiving, are available on the EL Publishing website. I had a look through the EL Publishing catalogue for “archiv*” using the sophisticated search engine developed by Edward Garrett and found 143 items that mention archive(s) or archiving, and of these there are 18 which deal with theoretical or practical issues in endangered languages archiving. For anyone interested in the topic, the following list and the links provided may be a useful supplement to Henke and Berez-Kroeker’s paper.

EL Publishing papers on archiving

Austin, Peter K. & Lenore Grenoble. 2007. Current trends in language documentation. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 4, 12-25. London: SOAS. link

Gardiner, Gabrielle & Kirsten Thorpe. 2014. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Archive: Connecting communities and research data. In David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 12, 103-119. Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: SOAS. link

Garrett, Edward. 2014. Participant-driven language archiving. In David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 12, 68-84. Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: SOAS. link

Good, Jeff. 2007. The ecology of documentary and descriptive linguistics. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 4, 38-57. London: SOAS. link

Johnson, Heidi. 2004. Language documentation and archiving, or how to build a better corpus. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 2, 140-153. London: SOAS. link

Linn, Mary S. 2014. Living archives: A community-based language archive model. In David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 12, 53-67. Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: SOAS. link

McDonnell, Bradley, Andrea Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton. 2018. Reflections on documentary linguistics. In S. Drude, N. Ostler & M. Moser (eds.) Endangered languages and the land: Mapping landscapes of multilingualism, Proceedings of FEL XXII/2018 (Reykjavík, Iceland), 78-83. London: FEL & EL Publishing. link

Nathan, David. 2008. Digital archives: essential elements in the workflow for endangered languages documentation and revitalisation. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 5, 103-119. London: SOAS. link

Nathan, David. 2010. Language documentation and archiving: from disk space to MySpace. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 7, 172-208. London: SOAS. link

Nathan, David. 2014. Access and accessibility at ELAR, an archive for endangered languages documentation. In David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 12, 187-208. Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: SOAS link

Nordhoff, Sebastian & Harald Hammarström. 2014. Archiving grammatical descriptions. In David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 12, 164-186. Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: SOAS. link

Sasse, Hans-Jürgen & Nick Evans. 2007. Searching for meaning in the library of Babel: field semantics and problems of digital archiving. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 4, 58-99. London: SOAS. link

Seidel, Frank. 2016. Documentary linguistics: A language philology of the 21st century. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 13, 23-63. London: SOAS. link

Trilsbeek, Paul & Alexander König. 2014. Increasing the future usage of endangered language archives. In David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 12, 151-163. Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: SOAS. link

Wittenburg, Peter. 2003. The DOBES model of language documentation. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 1, 122-139. London: SOAS. link

Woodbury, Anthony C. 2003. Defining documentary linguistics. In Peter K. Austin (ed.) Language Documentation and Description 1, 35-51. London: SOAS. link

Woodbury, Anthony C. 2014. Archives and audiences: Toward making endangered language documentations people can read, use, understand, and admire. In David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 12, 19-36. Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: SOAS. link

Wilbur, Joshua. 2014. Archiving for the community: Engaging local archives in language documentation projects. In David Nathan & Peter K. Austin (eds.) Language Documentation and Description 12, 85-102. Special Issue on Language Documentation and Archiving. London: SOAS. link

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