Language Archive Usability

18 Feb, 2012

This project seeks to make known issues in Language Resource Accessibility. It is primarily concerned with two facets of accessibility:

  1. the User Experience related to interacting with archived content; and
  2. the aggregation of item level metadata about language resources in collections.
Tags: Architecture Business Model User Experience Archive Language Archives UX
Hugh Paterson III
Hugh Paterson III
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My research interests include typological patterns in articulatory phonetics; User Expereince design in language tools; and graph theory applied to language and linguistics.

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Publications

Challenges of implementing a tool to extract metadata from linguists: the use case of RAMP

In January 2011, SIL Internationalʼs archive launched a corporate instance of DSpace as part of a larger and ongoing effort to …
PDF Project Video Handout SIL Archive Poster

Talks

From Archive to Citation

I present an overview of the kinds of challenges that authors have when they try to import metadata from archives into Zotero, where they will later use the data to craft references and citations.
17 Feb, 2021 17:00 Sidney, Australia
Project Conference Abstract Watch

Archives: Features without a business plan

We argue that language archives need to revise their business plans to stay relevant with the academic market and data ecology practices of their data consumers.
26 Apr, 2019 00:00 Eugene, Oregon
Project Handout Draft Paper