public BIBLIOGRAPHY on UCD of language archives
We have developed a public bibliography on the user-centered design of language archives. It is stored on Mendeley.com, and anyone can access it and contribute to it. Our bibliography includes more than 120 entries, a mix of websites and scholarly publications. Each publication is annotated with a short literature review written by us. The entries are grouped into the following categories:
- Digital cultural heritage (websites)
- Language archives (websites)
- Literature – anthropologists on documenting languages
- Literature – anthropologists theorizing archives
- Literature – indigenous scholars theorizing archives
- Other Internet resources
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Articles on Language Archives
Here are some key readings on language archiving.
Bird, Steven and Gary Simons. 2003. Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description. Language 79(3).557-82. Online: http://www.language-archives.org/documents/portability.pdf.
Garrett, Andrew and Lisa Conathan. 2009. Archives, communities and linguists: Negotiating access to language documentation. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco, January 8-11.
Austin, Peter. 2011. Who uses digital language archives? In Endangered Languages and Cultures. Online: http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2011/04/who-uses-digital-language-archives/.
Linn, Mary. 2014. Living archives: A community-based language archive model. Language Documentation and Description 12.53-67. Online: http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/137.
Ridington, Robin and Jilian Ridington. 2003. Archiving actualities: Sharing authority with Dane-zaa First Nations. Comma 2003(1).61-68.
Woodbury, Anthony C. 2014. Archives and audiences: Toward making endangered language documentations people can read, use, understand, and admire. Language Documentation and Description 12.19-36. Online: http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/135.
articles on user-centered design
Here are some key readings on UCD.
Baxter, Kathy, Catherine Courage and Kelly Caine. 2015. Introduction to user experience. In Understanding your users (second edition): A practical guide to user research methods. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2-20.
Wasson, Christina. 2000. Ethnography in the field of design. Human Organization 59(4):377-388.
Brown, Tim. 2008. Design thinking. Harvard Business Review June 2008:84-92.