Statement of Purpose
What is DARDOSIPCAT's purpose?
DARDOSIPCAT contributes to a lasting, multipurpose record of observable linguistic behavior relating to Spanish in the Països Catalans. Toward this end, DARDOSIPCAT preserves, catalogs, annotates, and disseminates primary data (digital recordings of observable linguistic behavior and metalinguistic knowledge). DARDOSIPCAT also preserves and serves associated language documentary apparatus (metadata/annotations at the session-level, including orthographic transcriptions of the digital recordings, and metadata/general access resources at the project level).
DARDOSIPCAT resides in Western Michigan University’s ScholarWorks Institutional Repository, which features stable, permanent URLs, built-in citations to every resource, XML support, and OAI-PMH v2.0 compliance. In this way, DARDOSIPCAT benefits in myriad ways from WMU’s ongoing organizational commitment to long-term, perpetual resource preservation, discoverability, and interoperability.
Ongoing project objectives:
- To promote resource discovery via the use of rich metadata in standard machine-readable formats, robust metadata harvesting protocols, and full-text indexing in major search engines.
- To foster resource portability via comprehensive cloud-based backups, server redundancies, and a commitment on the part of WMU Libraries to migrate resource formats to future technological standards as needed.
- To restrict access to DARDOSIPCAT resources to those users who agree to use DARDOSIPCAT resources for research purposes only, subject to specific archive terms and conditions.
- To strengthen empirical foundations in linguistics and related fields by economizing research resources and improving academic accountability.