The Blackfoot Language Resources and Digital Dictionary project: creating integrated web resources for language documentation and revitalization

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dc.contributor.authorGenee, Inge
dc.contributor.authorJunker, Marie-Odile
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-07T18:08:31Z
dc.date.available2021-07-07T18:08:31Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionOpen access article. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International LIcense (CC BY-NC 4.0) appliesen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes ongoing work to create a suite of integrated web resources in support of Blackfoot language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization efforts. Built around a digital dictionary, the website also contains grammar sketches, a library of other language-related resources, and a story archive. The project began its life as advocacy research (i.e., a digital repatriation project) but developed into empowerment research through community participation. The first phase consisted of back-digitization of an existing print dictionary. The second phase, which is ongoing, works toward making the dictionary user-friendly for speakers, learners, and teachers, and embedding it in a website that contains supporting content. Key features are developed collaboratively with Blackfoot community members. In order to create an environment in which all participants are equally empowered to help shape the project, a Participatory Action Research approach was adopted for the second phase of teamwork. This resulted in important new priorities for presentation, content, and enhancement of features. It has also had impact on the participants themselves, who developed awareness and new relationships as well as acquiring new skills and knowledge, which for some contributed to new jobs and academic directions. Finally, the project is producing new material to address existing research questions and generating new questions for future research projects.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationGenee, I., & Junker, M.-O. (2018). The Blackfoot Language Resources and Digital Dictionary project: Creating integrated web resources for language documentation and revitalization. Language Documentation & Conservation, 12, 274-314.. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24770en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5948
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Pressen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Modern Languages and Linguisticsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.publisher.institutionCarleton Universityen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/24770en_US
dc.subjectIndigenous language revitalizationen_US
dc.subjectBlackfoot languageen_US
dc.subjectParticipatory action researchen_US
dc.subjectDigital repatriationen_US
dc.subjectDigital resources for language revitalizationen_US
dc.subjectOnline dictionariesen_US
dc.subject.lcshLanguage revival
dc.subject.lcshSiksika language--Revival
dc.titleThe Blackfoot Language Resources and Digital Dictionary project: creating integrated web resources for language documentation and revitalizationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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