Project Description

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 archives and how they correlate with available information organization functionality?