LangArc-2023: 2nd international workshop on digital language archives online June 30, 2023

2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc 2023) virtual workshop on digital language archives – digital libraries that preserve, curate, and provide online access to language data – continues (after the initial LangArc 2021 workshop) addressing the growing need. LangArc 2023 will explore a broad scope of issues related to digital language archives. This includes challenges and opportunities, strategies and solutions for: facilitating depositing and improving access; information organization, architecture, and retrieval; quality assurance; usability; ethical issues; ways of encouraging reuse of deposited data in research and education; and coursework and other training for information professionals that will develop and maintain digital language archives. This workshop is expected to support interdisciplinary collaboration among information professionals, linguists, educators, representatives of language communities (including indigenous and other underrepresented), students, and other interested audiences.

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 May 21st, 2023 (EXTENDED DEADLINE). 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 ACM Proceedings template.

List of Topics

The topics of submissions include but are not limited to:

• social, political, legislative, economic, administrative, and other factors that affect digital language archives;
• archivists' partnerships with language communities for providing access to language materials in their local cultural and historical collections;
• ethical implications of language archiving and providing access to legacy and family materials, materials for which provenance is unknown or sketchy;
• user studies, including examinations of user needs, usability and user experience evaluations in digital language archives;
• approaches, methods and techniques for collection development (including selection and digitization of materials, self-deposit and mediated deposit practices), information architecture, information organization,  metadata, information retrieval (including multi-lingual and cross-lingual), quality assurance, etc. in digital language archives;
• evaluations (case studies and comparative analyses) of various features of digital language archives;
• education endeavors to support language data archiving and curation;
• theory and history of digital language archives.

Important Dates

• May 21, 2023 AOE (EXTENDED DEADLINE): deadline for submission of short papers (1500-2000 words)
• June 5, 2023 AOE: notification of acceptance and reviewers' feedback returned to authors of submission 
• June 20, 2023 AOE: deadline for submission of the final version of accepted short paper (revised based on reviewers' feedback)
• June 25, 2023: registration deadline for authors of accepted submissions (at least one author must be registered for JCDL 2023 conference at https://2023.jcdl.org/registration/)
• June 26-30, 2023: JCDL 2023 main conference
• June 30, 2023: workshop date

Publication

Submissions accepted for the 2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc-2023) will be published in the workshop proceedings, in the same way as the proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Language Archives (LangArc-2021)

Interested authors of accepted LangArc-2023 submissions are also invited to develop full papers (6000-7500 words) for submission to the refereed journal The Electronic Library after the end of the workshop.

Venue

2nd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives will be held as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2023 online on June 30, 2023. 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