Developing Graduate Curriculum for Digital Language Archive Stewardship
Abstract
Our interdisciplinary team (including information and language scholars, educators, and practicing information professionals) at University of North Texas (UNT) and Indiana University (IU) is developing an evidence-based practice-oriented online curriculum to train library, archives, and museums (LAM) professionals in the archiving, curation, and ethical dissemination of resources that provide the means to revitalize community memory and language. During this 2-year project, over 30 LAM students will complete the project-developed UNT graduate course INFO 5385 Community Language Archiving and Curation for Information Professionals, and additional estimated 100 students at UNT and IU will complete individual project-developed learning modules integrated into other courses. Development of the learning materials is informed by digital language archive practices, research, and existing training materials for archive depositors. Resulting open-access adaptable learning resources are expected to be widely used by academic programs and educators for training LAM students and by participatory archives as continuing education resources.
Title
Developing Graduate Curriculum for Digital Language Archive Stewardship
Type
Publication
In 2024: ALISE Proceedings
Date
October 2024
Links
Citable as
Paterson III, Hugh J. and Oksana L. Zavalina. (2024) Developing Graduate Curriculum for Digital Language Archive Management. In the Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education 2024 Annual Conference: The Ethics and Evolution of Truth and Information. Portland, Oregon. October 14th–17th. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1657
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Oksana Zavalina
Professor
A scholar focused on Language Archives and multilingual collection description.
Hugh Paterson III
Collaborative Scholar
I specialize in bespoke research at the intersection of Linguistics, Law, Languages, and Technology; specifically utility and life-cycle management for information products in these spaces.