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Digital Library Projects at the American Indian Studies Research Institute. Raymond J. DeMallie, Director — Douglas R.Parks, Associate Director Wallace Hooper, Director of Software Development. Digital Library Collaborations at AISRI.
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Digital Library Projects at theAmerican Indian Studies Research Institute Raymond J. DeMallie, Director — Douglas R.Parks, Associate Director Wallace Hooper, Director of Software Development
Digital Library Collaborations at AISRI • Plains Indian Languages Consortium — professional linguists with related research interests seeking to provide data and resources over the web • Dakota Indian Foundation — Digital Archives Project. The Ella DeLoria Papers. • Lakota Language Consortium — Development of curriculum and instructional materials for use in Lakota school districts under the sponsorship of the Oglala Nation Education Consortium.
Mission of AISRI • Anthropology, linguistics and ethnohistory of the North American Plains Indians • Language documentation — concentrations in Siouan and Caddoan languages • Language stabilization and revitalization • Development of useful computer applications and resources
Publication Programs • Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians — 24 titles • Sources of American Indian Oral Literature —7 titles • Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians, Plains Volume • Anthropological Linguistics, quarterly journal
Language Documentation • Elicitation of lexical data for the construction of reference dictionaries • Collection of texts, oral literature, and use of historical linguistic sources • Establishment of sound archives — AISRI’sCenter for the Documentation of Endangered Languages
Language Instruction • Traditional pedagogical model: certified teacher team-teaching with a tribal elder • Use of computer-based instructional aids • Teacher training • Immersion
Preparing Digital Library Materials: Data modeling in the Indiana Text Lab