1. Name and Location

2. Catalog

2.1 If the archive has a catalog in a standardized format, what fields does it contain? If not, what contextual information about the resources are collected? What other information would you like to collect if you could?
Conventional metadata Speaker /age,ethnicity,gender,place of origin,language of interview, locale for interview Transcript /length, #tracks, transcriber, tagger, thematic topics [early reading, personal events or crises, scary events , humor, folklore] [stories about family: family members, origin, citizenship; time periods [e.g. Depression, WWI] and locales [farms in the 30s, growth of city,etc]; [stories transmitted by family: see above] /'names' [person, place, title, dates, etc] / media: digital CD and: analog tape, videotape, miniCD, photo, digital photo, etc /special features: relationships between interlocutor and narrator; between participants in conversation; overtly co-constructed with another participant or with interlocuto r /discourse features [using NoteTab to tag in XML]

2.2 If the electronic catalog conforms to some standard, please tell us the name of the standard.

2.3 To what extent have the archived materials been cataloged electronically?
virtually everything

2.4 If there is an online public access catalog, please give its URL.
after 1 November, http://www.uncc.edu/english/cnnc

3. Holdings

3.1 What geographical regions and languages are covered?

Main Regions Covered:	Americas
Approx Number of Languages:	3
Main Languages:	This is a regional catalog; primary language English; some Spanish (Mexican, Nicaraguan) and Korean

3.2 Please give impressionistic estimates of the archive holdings for each of the data types.

DATA TYPE NON-DIGITAL DIGITAL Texts: large Wordlists, Vocabularies, Lexicons, Dictionaries: none Field Notes, Correspondence, Misc files: none Descriptions (Grammars, Phonologies, etc): none Audio Recordings: large Video Recordings: small

3.3 Please list any other data types which are not included above, or any other comments on the archive holdings:
The primary archive currently holds 525 narrators; 75are transcribed and 10are XML tagged This is a regional archive: speakers currently living in the Metrolina/ greater Charlotte area at the turn of the century It is designed to be suitable for and of interest to linguists; its contents should be of interest to specialists and lay people in social, intellectual, regional, local, & public history, including emergent literacy The pilot for a new component has been achieved, with 60 di gitized, transcribed and tagged conversations with elderly people with cognitive deficits, particularly Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type.

3.4 What proportion of the holdings are unique to the archive and not available elsewhere?
virtually everything

4. Electronic Publication

4.1 To what extent are the archive holdings published electronically, where "published" means that there is a well-defined procedure such that anyone at all can get a standard copy of the data, either on digital media or over the internet?
virtually everything

4.2 To what extent are the archive holdings accessible over the web?
a significant amount

4.3 Is permission required before materials can be accessed?
sometimes

4.4 Is there any fee for materials?
sometimes

4.5 How are author and/or editor defined for the electronic publications? Is there a bibliographical citation method?
We are working on that one. Author is the interviewee. Also included: Transcriber, tagger, editor, date of interview, unique number in catalog, etc.

4.6 Do the electronic publications have ISBN numbers?

4.7 What plans are there to expand the electronic publication of archive holdings?
Currently under discussion

5. General Issues

5.1 Who is the legal owner of archived materials?
All participants gave informed consent for all interviews and conversations, or any products from the interviews and conversations, to be deposited in the archive, which is held by Special Collections, Atkins Library, University of N orth Carolina - Charlotte. All standards for research with humans have been maintained; with the new component that includes conversation and interviews with elderly adults suffering dementia, identity is protected and in some cases, there are standards f or the use of the material. requirements may place some constraints on use.

5.2 Beyond legal ownership, are there any asserted or perceived moral rights concerning archived materials? Do the holders of the archive see the original speakers or their representatives as controlling publication?
No. See above.

5.3 In cases where no electronic publication is planned, why is this so? (e.g. funding, licensing, technical know-how, lack of interest).
We plan to publish electronically, and have begun to seek funding sources

5.4 Is any of the data in a proprietary format (e.g. MS Word)? If so, are there plans to transfer it to an open standard (e.g., XML)?
Everything is being transferred to an open standard

6. Do you have any other comments about digital archives of language material, or on this survey?

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