Track to the Past: Tracking Workflows, Versions, and Citations of Legacy Language Data

Abstract

This paper discusses three issues encountered with legacy language data in archives: First, the provenance of an artefact containing the data may be unclear, as well as all procedures that shaped its form(at) or contents. Second, legacy language data are often orphan data with opaque links to other versions, or texts providing more information on them and their contents. Third, these data predate methods of data citation, thus requiring retroactive ways of citation tracking. With a few adjustments to their infrastructures, digital archives can be used as a platform to track workflows, versioning, and citations of legacy language data.