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Leave Typology to the Typologists: I am a Linguist

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Hugh Paterson III
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A User Experience look at Linguistic Archiving

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!

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↑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]
Posted in Access, Digital Archival, Language Documentation, Library, Linguistics | Tagged Digital Ararchival, Digital Archival, human interaction, Language Documentation, Linguistics, metadata, opendraft, RAMP, Schema, SIL International, UI, UX | 1 Reply

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