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AILLA launches new repository

The directors and staff of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) are thrilled to announce that on May 1, 2024, we successfully launched a fully redesigned AILLA repository, which features a Portuguese user interface, in addition to the already existing English and Spanish ones. Please visit the website at ailla.utexas.org to see it for yourself. So far half of the collections have been migrated to the new repository (all the unrestricted collections), and the rest will be migrated over the summer. The legacy site is still available under a new URL in case you are looking for a specific collection that is not yet in the new repository. You can access the legacy repository at https://ailla-legacy.lib.utexas.edu/. 

The user accounts were not migrated from the legacy repository, so you will need to create a new one. If you had a user account in the legacy repository, it still works for that site only.

We are not yet ready to accept new deposits. If you are hoping to make a deposit this year, please contact AILLA at ailla@ailla.utexas.org to be added to the wait list. 

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Information Needed for 'Archiving the Future' Update

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This semester I’m revising Archiving for the Future: Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections. I am on a tight deadline to get the revisions done, so if you have any feedback available for me at this time, please send it to me at skung@austin.utexas.edu at your earliest convenience and no later than October 18, 2021.

 If you know anyone who is using or has used the course (e.g., as part of a field methods or language documentation course or for personal use) and who is not on this list, please forward this message to them.

The tight deadline is due to the good news that I’ve been funded to get the course translated into both Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese this academic year, so I need to get the revised draft to the translators very soon.

Thank you for your feedback!

 Susan

SUSAN KUNG, PhD, Archive Manager, Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) ailla.utexas.org The University of Texas at Austin

AILLA Launches Free Online Course on Archiving/AILLA Lanza un Curso Gratuito y en Línea sobre Archivado

AILLA Launches Free Online Course on Archiving

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is delighted to announce the launch of a free online course called Archiving for the Future: Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections, available at https://archivingforthefuture.teachable.com/. The course is a resource to aid people of all backgrounds in organizing born-digital and digitized language materials and data for deposit into any digital repository (not just AILLA) for long-term preservation and accessibility. 

The course material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. BCS-1653380 (Susan S. Kung and Anthony C. Woodbury, PIs; September 1, 2016, to August 31, 2020). The course is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. At the moment, the course is available only in English; the next steps are to translate the curriculum into Spanish and Portuguese to make it more accessible to AILLA’s Latin American audience.

Read the full press release in English here: https://texlibris.lib.utexas.edu/2020/09/08/archiving-for-the-future-ailla-launches-free-online-course/

 

AILLA Lanza un Curso Gratuito y en Línea sobre Archivado

El Archivo de los Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica (AILLA) se complace en anunciar el lanzamiento de un curso gratuito en línea llamado Archivar para el Futuro: Pasos Sencillos para Archivar Colecciones de Documentación de Lenguas, disponible en https://archivingforthefuture.teachable.com/. El curso es un recurso para ayudar a las personas de todos los orígenes a organizar materiales y datos lingüísticos digitalizados y de origen digital para depositarlos en cualquier depósito digital (no sólo AILLA) para su conservación y accesibilidad a largo plazo. 

El material del curso se basa en el trabajo apoyado por la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias con la subvención No. BCS-1653380 (Susan S. Kung y Anthony C. Woodbury, PIs; 1 de septiembre de 2016 a 31 de agosto de 2020). El curso está licenciado bajo una licencia internacional Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Por el momento, el curso está disponible sólo en inglés; los próximos pasos son traducir el currículum al español y al portugués para hacerlo más accesible a la audiencia latinoamericana de AILLA.

Lea el comunicado de prensa en inglés aquí: https://texlibris.lib.utexas.edu/2020/09/08/archiving-for-the-future-ailla-launches-free-online-course/

 

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SSILA Newsletter & Bulletin Archives

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SSILA is thrilled to announce the launch of the SSILA Newsletter and Bulletin archives on the SSILA website! SSILA issued its quarterly newsletter from 1981–2012, and the electronic bulletin from 1993–2012. Both were edited primarily by Victor Golla. The archives contain copies of nearly every one of the newsletters and bulletins, serving as a rich and valuable insight into SSILA's history. We hope you enjoy perusing the archive!

Note: The Newsletter and Bulletin archives are available to SSILA members only. If you are already a member, simply log into the website here. If you would like to purchase a SSILA membership, you can do so on the memberships page.

Beginning with the founding of the organization in 1981, SSILA issued a quarterly newsletter under the Editorship of Victor Golla (initially Ken Whistler, and later also Karen Sue Rolph), first in physical form, and later in digital format. In its first year in particular, the newsletter was intended to "serve as an important forum for discussion of the goals of the Society". It then evolved into a forum for announcements of interest to members, and discussion of issues in the field.

In 1993, with the advent of the internet, email, and listservs, the Society also began issuing an electronic bulletin, which was sent to all SSILA members at approximately monthly intervals, and edited by Victor Golla. It carried announcements of upcoming meetings, job announcements, and other late-breaking news.

The Society launched a new website with the ability to make blog posts in 2012, around which time both the newsletter and bulletin were discontinued. However, these communiques provide a valuable insight into SSILA's history, and contain much useful information. As such, in 2017 the SSILA Executive Committee undertook an initiative to create an archive of the newsletters and bulletins. Carolyn MacKay (former Executive Secretary) headed the effort, while Randa Marhenke and Willem de Reuse were instrumental in providing copies of the majority of the bulletins from their archives. Frank Treschel and Marianne Mithun also provided numerous issues of the newsletters. The documents were then organized into an online digital archive by Daniel W. Hieber (the SSILA Webmaster).

The archives are accessible to SSILA members only, so you will need to log into the SSILA.org website in order to view them. If you would like to sign up for a SSILA membership, you can do so here.