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 expert in Tibeto-Burman linguistics. Her publications include the highly cited grammar of the Tibeto-Burman language Meitei as well as general articles on Tibeto-Burman typology. She has advocated for the use of naturalistic data in linguistic discovery, specifically referencing the need for natural data to supplement current trends in South Asian linguistics to use translation and elicited data. Dr. Chelliah has been extensively involved in language data documentation. She was Program Director of NSF’s Documenting Endangered Languages Program from 2012-2015, where she helped institute a higher standard for Data Management Plans, including mandatory time and funds devoted to secure archiving of DEL-funded data. Her current NSF funded research dealing with Tibeto-Burman lexicography and morphology will allow for evaluation of information organization in language archives from the perspective of a language documenter and typologist. She will contribute to the project her expertise in language data structures, in-depth knowledge of the needs of linguistics researchers and understanding of language data depositing issues. Her responsibilities will include assistance with developing interview and observation instrument and with interpreting results of interview and observation, help in recruiting participants for interviews and observations.
Mr. Mark Phillips serves as Co-Principal Investigator for the project. He has extensive experience in grant-funded projects for digital libraries and Web archives as well as experience in grant-funded research projects involving ethnographic-based research methods including observation, interviewing and focus groups. His responsibilities will include: assisting with analysis of metadata records and metadata documentation from language archives. He will also provide expertise in system and infrastructure design that will be useful to understand metadata practices present in language archives.
Mary Burke will serve as the graduate research assistant. She is a student of the UNT Information Science Department’s interdisciplinary Information Science PhD program with a concentration in Linguistics focusing on developing infrastructure for archiving of endangered languages. She will have major role within the project including data collection, transcription and coding, data analysis, and assistance in writing of research reports and papers.
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