Creating workflow for mediated archiving in CoRSAL
ISSN: 0264-0473
Article publication date: 13 June 2022
Issue publication date: 29 November 2022
Abstract
Purpose
Language archiving is achieved through the detailed assessment and assemblage of various types of language data. The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) is an emerging language archive that prioritizes the accommodation of depositors who have a variety of needs with respect to both research and infrastructure. As such, the CoRSAL team uses a workflow approach that caters to this diversity. The purpose of this paper is to detail the mediated workflow for collection ingest and promotion, citing two specific examples from recently published language collections, as well as discuss specific feedback the team has received from individual depositors and language community members on the effectiveness and usefulness of these efforts thus far.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper provides an exploration of the author’s approaches to a mediated archiving workflow.
Findings
The author discusses the encouraging and constructive feedback the team has received so far and includes instances of specific communication with individuals who have recently deposited and published collections with them.
Originality/value
This is the first research paper published by anyone on our team describing our workflow. It is an expansion of a shorter conference paper presented at the LangArc 2021: 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives on September 30, 2021 and published in the conference proceedings
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Acknowledgements
The author is grateful to Dr Shobhana Chelliah for her helpful reviews and feedback. The author is also thankful to the CoRSAL team, especially curator Mary Burke, and directors Dr Mark Phillips and Dr Oksana Zavalina, for their helpful discussion. Finally, the author is enormously grateful to the community depositors that he has personally worked with on preparing their language collections for archiving, and who have been very open and generous with their constructive feedback for the CoRSAL team.Consent: I have obtained permission from participants that this anonymized information can be published in the form of personal communication.
Citation
Dale, M. (2022), "Creating workflow for mediated archiving in CoRSAL", The Electronic Library, Vol. 40 No. 5, pp. 568-578. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-02-2022-0027
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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