The topics of the workshop include:
- reviews and discussions of social, political, legislative, economic and other factors that affect digital language archives;
- discussions of administrative structures within universities – academic libraries, institutional repositories, digital humanities institutes, other – for digital language archives;
- discussions of digital language archives’ partnerships with tribal communities and rural libraries for providing access to linguistic materials (audio, video, transcript) in their local cultural and historical collections;
- discussions of issues related to cost of archiving in digital language archives;
- discussions of ethical implications of archiving in digital language archives and providing access to legacy and family materials, materials for which provenance is unknown or sketchy;
- results of user studies, including examinations of user needs, usability and user experience evaluations in digital language archives;
- reports on approaches, methods and techniques for collection development (including selection and digitization of materials, self-deposit and mediated deposit practices), information architecture, information organization, information retrieval (including multi-lingual and cross-lingual), quality assurance, etc. in digital language archives;
- results of evaluations (case studies and comparative analyses) of various features of digital language archives;
- discussions of education endeavors to support language data archiving and curation;
- works related to theory and history of digital language archives.