Behind our house in Eugene is an older building with a large tower. The kind of tower where Vaux’s Swifts nest at night.
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Ever look for something on Craigslist and get hundreds of results – look at a few and decide that you don’t want a few and then type in something else and get the same search results? Obviously you were looking for something else… what is needed is a check box to say that you are disinterested in a particular listing. (Or that a listing was no-longer for sale, but the owner “forgot” to remove the listing.) Craigslist as it currently is. (Incase you forgot.) Needed Check Box for better results. This the start of a cross-language archive look at the current state of UX design presenting Content generated in Language Documentation. http://www.rnld.org/archives http://paradisec.org.au/ In a recent paper Jeremy Nordmoe, a friend and colleague, states that: Because most linguists archive documents infrequently, they will never be experts at doing so, nor will they be experts in the intricacies of metadata schemas. [1]Jeremy Nordmoe. 2011. Introducing RAMP: an application for packaging metadata and resources offline for submission to an institutional repository. In Proceedings of Workshop on Language Documentation … Continue reading My initial reply is: You are d@#n right! and it is because archives are not sexy enough! ReferencesNew Feature for Craigslist
The Look of Language Archive Websites
http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/language_archives
http://repository.digiarch.sinica.edu.tw/index.jsp?lang=enLeave Typology to the Typologists: I am a Linguist
A User Experience look at Linguistic Archiving
↑1 Jeremy Nordmoe. 2011. Introducing RAMP: an application for packaging metadata and resources offline for submission to an institutional repository. In Proceedings of Workshop on Language Documentation & Archiving 18 November 2011 at SOAS, London. Edited by: David Nathan. p. 27-32. [Preprint PDF]