LangArc-2021: 1st international workshop on digital language archives online September 30, 2021 |
Conference website | https://jcdl2021dla.ci.unt.edu/home |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=langarc2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 30, 2021 |
Submission deadline | September 16, 2021 |
Submission of the final (revised based on reviewers' feedback) version of accepted papers: September 5, 2021: extended to September 16 | September 16, 2021 |
1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives seeks to address the growing need. It will explore a broad scope of issues related to digital language archives -- digital libraries that preserve and provide online access to language data. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, educators, and students from around the world who are currently working or are interested in working in different areas related to collecting, archiving, curating, organizing, and providing access to born-digital or digitized language data, and evaluation of digital language archives. Workshop participants will interact and explore solutions to facilitating discovery of language materials in digital archives, effective and efficient access to them, and reuse of this rich data. The workshop will help foster collaborations among information professionals; library and information science, linguistics, data science, computer science, and humanities researchers; educators; representatives of language communities (including indigenous communities, refugees, speakers of under-resourced languages); and other interested audiences. The event is expected to become the first one in the series of regular workshops focused on the digital language archives.
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original contributions that are not previously published. The workshop submissions are expected to be in the form of short papers between 1500 and 2000 words and would typically include:
research question(s) and/or problem(s),
background and brief review of relevant literature,
methods / design of research or practical implementation project,
findings or results (could be preliminary for submissions reporting work-in-progress) and their discussion,
a statement of significance, and
conclusions and future work (optional for the work-in-progress submissions).
Submissions should be submitted by July 30th, 2021. To ensure quality, all submissions will be peer-reviewed. Authors are instructed not to include their identity, affiliation(s) or contact details in the initial submission, and to anonymize any references that would reveal the authorship. These details will be added in the final versions of accepted submissions which must follow the style of the IEEE Conference Proceedings template.
List of Topics
The topics of submissions include but are not limited to:
- reviews and discussions of social, political, legislative, economic and other factors that affect digital language archives;
- discussions of administrative structures within universities – academic libraries, institutional repositories, digital humanities institutes, other – for digital language archives;
- discussions of digital language archives’ partnerships with tribal communities and rural libraries for providing access to linguistic materials (audio, video, transcript) in their local cultural and historical collections;
- discussions of issues related to cost of archiving in digital language archives;
- discussions of ethical implications of archiving in digital language archives and providing access to legacy and family materials, materials for which provenance is unknown or sketchy;
- results of user studies, including examinations of user needs, usability and user experience evaluations in digital language archives;
- reports on approaches, methods and techniques for collection development (including selection and digitization of materials, self-deposit and mediated deposit practices), information architecture, information organization, information retrieval (including multi-lingual and cross-lingual), quality assurance, etc. in digital language archives;
- results of evaluations (case studies and comparative analyses) of various features of digital language archives;
- discussions of education endeavors to support language data archiving and curation;
- works related to theory and history of digital language archives.
Important Dates
- July 30, 2021: extended deadline for submission of short papers (1500-2000 words)
- August 23, 2021: notification of acceptance and reviewers' feedback returned to authors of submission
- September 6, 2021 (extended to September 16, 2021) AOE: deadline for submission of the final version of accepted paper (revised based on reviewers' feedback)
- September 27, 2021: registration deadline for authors of accepted submissions (at least one author must be registered for JCDL 2021 conference at https://2021.jcdl.org/registration/)
- September 27-30, 2021: JCDL 2021 main conference
- September 30, 2021: workshop date
Publication
Accepted workshop submissions will be published in the workshop proceedings.
After the workshop, authors of accepted LangArc-2021 submissions will also be invited to develop full papers (6000-7500 words) for submission to the special issue of the refereed journal The Electronic Library. Journal paper submissions should follow The Electronic Library author formatting guidelines and templates available here and must be original contributions not previously published and not under review for publication elsewhere; they will be peer-reviewed by The Electronic Library editorial board and external reviewers.
Venue
1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives will be held as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2021 online on September 30, 2021. The workshop will consist of live session(s) scheduled to accommodate participants from different time zones across the world. Session recordings and transcripts will be available for registered participants.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to oksana.zavalina@unt.edu