Digital file icons return

Thanks to the good folks at University of Alaska - Office of Information Technology - Application Services, the digital file icons () are working again. Search results will display this icon when digital files are available for download.

While we continue to work to make more materials available online, bear in mind that many resources are not yet available in digital form. If you require access to materials which do not have this icon, please contact archive staff for assistance.

Lower Tanana Athabascan Place Names

ANLA is pleased to announce the availability of a new online publication: Lower Tanana Athabascan Place Names. Edited by James Kari, this publication provides a comprehensive inventory of indigenous place names from the Lower Tanana region.

In addition to a listing of more than 1000 names with English glosses, this publication includes 3 full-color large-format wall maps in pdf format. A unique feature of this online place names publication is the inclusion of ArcGIS geodatabase files which allow Lower Tanana place names to be incorporated into other digital mapping projects.

All of the associated digital files can be accessed at ANLA Item TN981K2012.

Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the National Science Foundation Alaska EPSCoR Program.

Archive statistics

Every wonder how ANLA resources are distributed across languages and contributors? If so, see our new statistics page at

http://www.uaf.edu/anla/about/statistics

Archive database down 10/1

OIT plans to do some major repairs on the Archive db today. Please refrain from editing the db. We may loose access to the db for part of the day.

Cleaning up the Language field

I started writing some scripts to clean up the language field in the db. Managed to assign Dena'ina as subject language to all items with TI identifiers. I'll continue this work once the db tomorrow's migration is finished.

Merging qenaga.org and naqenaga.org

Received inquiry from Michael Christian regarding possible merger of content on qenaga.org (created by ANLC NSF project) and naqenaga.org (created by Michael under contract with ANHC. This brings up the issue of attempting to reconcile the Dena'ina records at qenaga.org/archive and our own records. I think ANLA should hold the master records, which can then be referenced from naqenaga.org. So we will need to come up with a plan to check through all those records, and also make sure we have digital content.