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Archiving and Managing Sociolinguistic Data: The Problems of Portability, Access and Security, and Discoverability and Relevance
Author(s) -
Kendall Tyler
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1111/lnc3.12108
Subject(s) - discoverability , software portability , metadata , relevance (law) , focus (optics) , computer science , world wide web , work (physics) , data sharing , internet privacy , political science , mechanical engineering , medicine , physics , alternative medicine , optics , pathology , law , programming language , engineering
In recent years, sociolinguists have become increasingly focused on and more explicit about ensuring the preservation, and accessibility, of their data. This increased focus on our data has involved new lines of work explicitly on data management and, in turn, has led to important (re)considerations of the nature of sociolinguistic data and the metadata of importance for sociolinguist research. While many of the papers in this special issue focus on issues having to do with specific metadata, in this paper, I consider archiving and sharing data more generally. I attend to three specific problem areas, portability access and security , and discoverability and relevance , providing advice as well as some ‘food for thought’ discussions for each.