Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
A digitized collection of linguistics recordings made by Jimmy G. Harris, a former employee of the United Nations who worked for several decades in many far-flung parts of the world. The recordings are unique, capturing languages and dialects from speakers in currently politically unstable countries where field work is difficult if not impossible. Furthermore, since the recordings were made from the 1960s to the 1980s, they also represent a unique capture of these speakers during a specific time. Adding this digital collection to our institutional repository posed some unique challenges, including reel to reel capture of sound from materials that were decades old and metadata creation without a certain type of specialization.
Publication Date
5-8-2013
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Holmes, Ramona and Schenk, Krystal E., "It's a Big World After All ... The Pitfalls of Digitizing and Describing a Linguistics Project by Non-linguists" (2013). Librarian & UTA Libraries Staff Publications. 67.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/utalibraries_publications/67