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=== Data Formats ===

Standards for formats are critical for interoperability between software tools, e.g. [[OLAC]]. Many individual archives or data repositories have their own standards and requirements for data deposited on their servers - knowledge of these requirements ought to inform the data collection strategy and tools used, and should be part of a data management plan developed before the start of research. Some example guidelines from well-used repositories are given below:

* [https://www.soas.ac.uk/elar/helpsheets/ Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR)] guidelines

* [http://www.mpi.nl/corpus/html/lamus/apa.html Max Planck Institute Archive] accepted formats

* [https://web.library.yale.edu/digital-initiatives/digitization-standards-and-guidelines/audiovisual Yale University Library] audiovisual guidelines

Most current archive standards for [[video]] use MPEG-4 encoding as a storage format, which includes an AAC audio stream of up to 320 kbps. [[Sound quality|Audio]] archive quality is at least WAV 44.1 khz, 16-bit.

== Ethics ==

Ethical practices in language documentation have been the focus of much recent discussion and debate.<ref>Austin, Peter K. 2010. 'Communities, ethics and rights in language documentation.' In Peter K. Austin, Ed., ''Language Documentation and Description Vol 7''. London, SOAS: 34-54.</ref> The [[Linguistic Society of America]] has prepared an [http://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/Ethics_Statement.pdf Ethics Statement], and maintains an [https://lsaethics.wordpress.com/about/ Ethics Discussion Blog] which is primarily focused on ethics in the language documentation context. The morality of ethics protocols has itself been brought into question by [[George van Driem]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=van Driem|first=George|date=2016|title=Endangered Language Research and the Moral Depravity of Ethics Protocols|url= http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24693|journal=Language Documentation and Conservation 10: 243-252|doi=|pmid=|access-date=}}</ref> Most postgraduate programs in Language Documentation and Description require research proposals to submit to an internal Institutional Review Board which ensures that research is being conducted ethically.

== Literature ==