Metadata & Archiving

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# Metadata & Archiving
## 710 | Week 4
### Bradley McDonnell
### 2022/1/31 (updated: 2022-01-31)

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# Class to do list

1. Make sure that you signed up for mini-presentation on Laulima #1
  2. Reading current to Week 5 (ELAN)
  3. Keep working on [Archiving for the Future](https://laulima.hawaii.edu/x/hfE5Zo)
  4. [Metadata](https://laulima.hawaii.edu/x/hfE5Zo) assignment due next week
  5. Download metadata-activity.zip from the Metadata Assignment on Laulima
  4. Anything else?

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# Archiving

## Kung (2022), Lukaniec (2022)

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# Data storage vs. data presevation

## .center[What's the difference?]

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# DMPs as "living documents"

## .center[How often should our DMP be revised?]

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# Open data

> "Data should be as open as possible, but as closed as necessary (Horizon 2020 Programme 2017)" (Kung 2022: 110)

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# Metadata discussion

## Good (2011), Bowern (2015)

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# Metadata heirarchy

## Project

### Corpus

#### Session

##### Resource

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# Project-level

Besemah (alternatively, Pasemah) is a little-known Malayic language in the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken by approximately 400,000 people primarily in the highlands, but sporadically throughout the lowlands of southwest Sumatra, straddling both South Sumatra and Bengkulu provinces. Besemah is considered to be a part of a cluster of Malayic isolects that roughly cover the southern half of Bengkulu province as well as the western highlands of South Sumatra province, traditionally referred to as the Middle Malay or Central Malay languages. These languages are now referred to as South Barisan Malay.

The aim of the Besemah Language Documentation Project (BLDP) is to create a comprehensive record of the Besemah language as it is currently spoken in as natural a setting as possible, utilizing current methods in the field of language documentation. BLDP currently has a fairly large corpus primarily made up of spontaneous speech (mostly conversation), but also including traditional and modern narratives, elicited word lists and sentences, and lexicographical materials.

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# Session level metadata

[BJM01-001](https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/BJM01/items/001)

This is a conversation at night between extended family members at Yawan's house on the downriver side in the village of Karang Tanding, Jarai, Lahat, South Sumatra. Sira (M, 48) was in charge of recording the event. His goal was to have a casual conversation with his mother Sawia (F, 76) and his aunt Juria (F, 86), two older members of the community, about the history of Karang Tanding. Most of the conversation revolves around Sira asking questions to Sawia and Juria, but ocassionally Yawan (M, 46) and his wife, Partiwi (F, 44), join in on the conversation.

Recorded on a Marantz PMD 670 solid-state audio recorder with an Audio-Technica AT875 stereo microphone.

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# Session level metadata

[BJM01-028](https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/BJM01/items/028)

A conversation primarily between an extended family: Royanah (F, 61), Olan (M, 14), Kus (F, 41), Husni (F, 29), Dela (F, 14). Royanah is Husni's mother, Kus's mother-in-law, and Dela and Olan's grandmother. Kus is Olan's mother, Dela's aunt and Husni's sister in law. Husni is Dela and Olan's aunt. Royanah, Kus, Husni, and Olan are all wearing separate headset microphones. Dela is not wearing a headset micrphone. Royanah, Husni, and Olan wore the Shure SM10A headset microphones and Kus wore the Shure WH30XLR headset microphone, and they all used Tascam 60D audio recorder. A Marantz PMD670 and a Audio-Technica AT875 Stereo Microphone were used to record the entire speech situation. A Canon Vixia HFM500 camcorder with a Rode VideoMic Pro Camera-Mount shotgun microphone was used to video record the entire speech situation. Overall, the recording is of good quality, but there is a lack of conversation, save for a portion of the recording where Kus and Husni are talking.

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# Resource level metadata

![](img/bjm01-001.png)

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# Organizing metadata

We'll consider two ways of organizing metadata. 
  
  1. Spreadsheet [Kaipuleohone](http://ling.hawaii.edu/kaipuleohone-language-archive/)
  2. Database 
    - [lameta](https://github.com/onset/lameta/releases) for Mac and PC (note that lameta is build from  [SayMore](https://software.sil.org/saymore/), which is only available for PC)

Let's take a quick tour of **lameta**