LangArc-2023 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.