Engagement through data management and preservation: The North Carolina language and life project and the sociolinguistic archive and analysis project
This chapter considers the ways that enhanced data management and preservation practices improve linguistic engagement processes and procedures. Data management and engagement are often considered separate professional enterprises with different goals and methods, but we argue that there is indeed an underlying intersection between these activities. We examine this potential by discussing a model established for North Carolina, one of the most linguistically diverse states in the United States. We consider how the outreach endeavors of the North Carolina Language and Life Project, including the recent book, Talkin’ Tar Heel: How our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina (Wolfram and Reaser, Talkin’ Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014), interrelate with the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project, a large-scale sociolinguistic data management project.
