02. Archiving for the Future
This workshop is based on the open educational resource (OER) Archiving for the Future: Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections (Kung et al. 2020), a short course designed to aid people of all backgrounds to confidently organize born-digital and digitized language materials and data for deposit into any digital repository or language archive for long-term preservation and accessibility. Workshop participants will learn 9 simple steps that they can do before, during, and after creating or collecting language materials; these steps will help them to understand data management, organization, and curation, which in turn will
facilitate the deposit of language documentation materials in a digital repository or language archive. Participants will learn
- Differences between digital repositories and other types of storage or sharing platforms
- Ethical and legal considerations throughout data creation and archiving
- Data management strategies (e.g., file-naming strategies, informed consent, metadata collection, strategic file organization)
- Collection planning to facilitate re-use (e.g., identifying target users and creating collection guides)
- Strategies for managing access to sensitive data (e.g., access restriction techniques at various language archives and managing access in perpetuity).
Methods and Materials
- Syllabus: A syllabus will be made available to participants ahead of the workshop.
- Methods: This course will be taught through a combination of lecture, discussion and group activities that will be supplemented by readings and videos.
- Materials: Course materials will be lecture slides and readings shared through the course’s CMS.
- Links: Links to relevant websites will be added to the workshop's syllabus.
Requirements
- Prerequisites: None. Anyone is welcome to attend, regardless if they have already collected data that they want to archive or they are simply planning ahead for a time when they do have data to archive.
- Equipment: Participants are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop computer or tablet to access online course materials. If students have already created/collected materials/data that they wish to archive, they may bring (a sample of) the digital files and the associated metadata to work with for the class project.
Facilitation Team