37.2806, FYI: Announcing Archiving for the Future, Second Edition

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Date: 01-Sep-2026
From: Susan Kung [skung at austin.utexas.edu]
Subject: Announcing Archiving for the Future, Second Edition


1 September 2026
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) at
the University of Texas at Austin is delighted to announce the launch
of the second edition of the free online textbook Archiving for the
Future: Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections,
available at its new, dedicated website,
https://sites.utexas.edu/archivingforthefuture/, as part of the
University of Texas Libraries Open Books Pressbooks Publishing Network
at https://utexas.pressbooks.pub/archivingforthefuture/.
The textbook 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 target audience for this course is
anyone who is engaged in creating materials in or about Indigenous,
endangered, under-documented, or minority languages as part of
language documentation efforts, including language rights,
maintenance, and revitalization. It was designed particularly for
individuals or groups made up of academic researchers and/or
Indigenous or minority language speakers and community members, though
anyone may benefit from it. The curriculum follows simple steps to
guide participants through three phases of work to organize language
documentation materials for archiving, and it explains in detail what
to do before, during, and after data collection to facilitate the
long-term preservation of the data. The course is designed to be
informative, engaging, and accessible to anyone, especially to those
with no previous experience archiving collections of language
materials.
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,
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en.
The first version of the course will continue to be available at the
legacy Teachable site https://archivingforthefuture.teachable.com/
through 31 August 2027, though this site will not be updated. The
Teachable site will be discontinued on 1 September 2027.
This textbook is currently only available in English. Spanish and
Portuguese versions will be added to the website at
https://sites.utexas.edu/archivingforthefuture/ as they become
available.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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