Open AccessArchives 2.0 for endangered languages: From disk space to MySpace
Author(s) -
David M. Nathan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of humanities and arts computing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.191
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1755-1706
pISSN - 1753-8548
DOI - 10.3366/ijhac.2011.0011
Subject(s) - endangered species , world wide web , documentation , space (punctuation) , negotiation , computer science , salient , diversity (politics) , sociology , artificial intelligence , anthropology , programming language , operating system , population , social science , demography
The salient features of endangered language documentation are diversity and protocol. The Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS is creating a new archive to take advantage of web-based social networking to address these issues. The archive is reconceived as a platform for conducting relationships between information providers (depositors) and information users, using the now-familiar idiom of Facebook. Rather than the archive having to continually broker complex access conditions, depositors and requesters can negotiate directly with each other via the archive to achieve more flexible and creative outcomes.
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