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This is an Awesome List for resources for Linguistics Librarians and Archivists dealing with Language Artifacts.
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Linguistics Librarian List

This is an Awesome List (which is a Github culture thing) for resources for Linguistics Librarians and Archivists dealing with Language Artifacts. The list is designed to be shared and contributed to.

Purpose

There is no association for linguistic librarians, and no open association for archivists or institutional repository managers who focus on language materials. This list exists as a resource from linguists to linguistics librarians to help facilitate better communication. But it is also a list for archivists of language materials to be able to connect with archivists of other kinds of materials who deal with collections in similar mediums. And it is a list from linguistics librarians to other linguistics librarians to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about useful resources and tools to the linguistics librarian.

What is a resource? Not a language resource (like a grammar or a description of a specific language). This list avoids resources about specific languages. Rather for the purposes of this list, resources might be portals, or organizations, products (like special catalogues) or journals, mailing lists, re-occurring conferences, metadata specifications, file management tools, etc. Which linguistics librarians, special collections librarians, and archivists focused on language materials will find helpful in the course of their work (which for linguistic librarians would include directing linguists and language researchers to appropriate resources). For language archivists, who are often trained as linguists first and then land responsibilities as archivists, this list is designed to be a bridge and an introduction from one academic discipline (like linguistics) to be able to find out what is "normal" or "best practice" in another academic discipline (like preservation studies). Depending on the nature of the resource, some resources might be listed in multiple sections.

Additions

Please organize additions by section first and then alphabetical, within a section. Fork the list. Make additions in your copy then send a pull request for additions to be added to the main list. Contributors must agree with the license statement. Please add your name to the list of contributors and read the ReadMe about contributing. Still got questions? create an issue.

Sections are marked with ## in markdown code and contain a variety of sub-sections (marked with ####). The introduction of sub-sections is flexible and new ones are added as are needed for clarity (not every section will have all sub-sections). Some of these sub-sections include:

Resources for audio curation and digitization

Networks

Best practices

Services

Journals

Digital tools

Resources for video curation and digitization

Networks

Best practices

Services

Journals

Archival
Content creation

Resources for still image curation and digitization

Networks

Best practices

Services

Journals

Archival
Content creation

Resources for linguistic cartography and maps

Projects and products

Journals

Resources for educational materials (such as curriculum) for minority languages

Descriptive metadata

Curriculum catalogues

Resources for Language and Music

This section focuses on ethnomusicology and language-music interactions.

Sites

Journals

Archives and Special Collections

Resources for Computational Linguistics

Resources for digital archiving - Software Tools

Digital repositories

These tools are designed to do digital object and associated metadata management.

Journal management systems

There are currently no known journal management systems which have an indexing function which allows for the OLAC metadata to be recorded per article submission. - Some further investigation is needed to determine if these CMS options create MARC records or if other kinds of indexing is still needed.

Digital showcases or display environments

These tools are designed to easily present visual interactions with archived collections. They are not designed to manage content and associated metadata in the same way that Digital Repository software does, rather display environments pull data from repositories and create interactions with it.

Submission managers

File Management

Tools for working with files.

Embedding metadata

Enriching files according to the best practices outlined in the Embedded Metadata Manifesto

Extracting Metadata

Working with DCMI Metadata

Open Community Software groups

Resources for finding resources

These resources are sometimes only aggregators, but other times may also be full content. These resources are usually not digital repositories.

Aggregators and index(ing) products

Special purpose repositories

Institutional repositories and special collections

Publishers

These publishers have significant portions of their businesses which focus on academic resources about linguistics, anthropology, language documentation, ethnobotany, ethnomusicology, ethno-arts, and minority language resources.

Other lists
This list

Major content delivery networks

These networks often are in the business of granting a variety of access types to academic audiences. Sometimes they are publishers, sometimes they are "archives" with access products provided to via subscription to institutions.

Journals

The study of language and linguistics covers a wide range of disciplines and sub-disciplines. Therefore a wide variety of journals may be listed as being "relevant to linguistics". A rough guess estimate is that there are about 2500 serials which are relevant to the study of language, linguistics, and culture (anthropology). The best way to introduce these journals would be to include a title, a topical area, a link to the publisher's mast head (or the archive's presentation) and an ISSN if they have one (so far examples have only included journal titles, links, and ISSN or E-ISSN). Note: Some links are to AJOL index pages rather than associational mast head websites. These should be corrected.

Other lists of journals

Other lists of linguistics journals include:

This list

Organizations of interests in the archiving and preservation sphere (for linguistics and technical focus)

General archival organizations of interest

Metadata standards and schemas

This section highlights some metadata standards and schemas in common use and why they are important for the linguistics librarian, the special collections librarian and language archivist dealing with language artifacts, and the linguist.

Not sure where to put this one

Intellectual property, rights, and access

General

Catalogues vs. content

Just to be clear some datasets or content can be catalogued and that catalogue data can be OpenData. However, the actual data the catalogue references can be restricted behind content control mechanism.

OpenAccess

OpenAccess means that the content can be obtained without cost but what one can legaly do with the content after accessing it may be restricted in some way. Read more about OpenAccess here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

OpenAccess and OpenData requirements

This section needs some clean up still

Cultural Appropriation

As of 19. March 2015 the only licenses we have found to address the issue of Cultural appropriation is the Free Culture License. They have some interesting points which may be of concern to various minority language using communities. However, for the sake of context their points will not be conveyed in this repo.

Creative Commons

Creative commons is a non-profit organization which helps promote open accesss and distribution to creative works using existing legal methods. It provides serveral standard licenses which Intelectual Property (IP) rights holders may use to give legal freedoms to users of their works. Generally Creative Commons licenses are insuficent for datasets and databases (consider reading the following: [1] [2] [3]. This is where OpenData requires separate licenses which legally attempt to provide the same freedoms to data users.

OpenData

OpenData requires separate licenses (than creative commons licenses) which legally attempt to provide the same freedoms to data users as creative commons licenses do for other kinds of works. More information is availible from the Open Data Commons. The Open Data Commons is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation. There are several organizations which are involved in the propgation and licensing of open data. Some of the highprofile ones are: the Open Knowledge Foundation, and the Open Data Foundation

Some more resources on Open Data:

Sources for OpenData

Science Commons

For open license type issues including publications and data in the sciences consider the following communities and resources:

License

This repo is licensed under the following terms. Creative Commons License

Copyright 2015 by Hugh Paterson III and contributors. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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