Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

Dr. Oksana Zavalina serves as Principal Investigator of the project. She has extensive practical experience in metadata creation (both MARC metadata traditionally used in libraries, and Dublin Core and other metadata used in digital repositories, as well as Linked Data applications). Dr. Zavalina has conducted research on metadata that facilitates resource discovery in digital repositories for over 12 years. This includes research on metadata-related decision-making in designing digital repositories; content analysis studies of metadata, including metadata quality and metadata change; studies of user interactions with digital repositories. Her responsibilities will include: overall project supervision and budget oversight; development of data collection instruments; drafting, editing and submission of reports and grant documentation; and official communication with IMLS. Dr. Shobhana Chelliah serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the project. She is a leading expe...

Project Goals identifying information organization tools and practices currently employed by language data archives across the United States the needs of depositors and end-users (linguistics researchers, instructors, and students) for information organization functionalities in these archives providing empirical data in support of planning the future large-scale collaborative project focused on development of more efficient and user-friendly tools for access to digital language archives     Research Questions  How is information currently organized in the language archives? What are the needs of actual and potential depositors of language data with regards to information organization in language data archives and how they correlate with available information organization functionality? What are the needs of end users of language data (researchers, educators, students) with regards to information organization in language data archi...