Alutiiq language materials

The Archive just received a deposit of Alutiiq language materials prepared by the Native Village of Afognak with funding from the Administration for Native Americans. The materials include a curriculum workbook, a teacher's guide, and several story books. Materials have been adapted for the Kodiak dialect from materials originally prepared in the Chugach dialect. In addition, the materials are supplemented by new recordings. All of these materials can be accessed online at the Alutiiq Language Elementary Curriculum website.

Hughes and Huslia Elders visit ANLA

A group of visitors from Hughes and Huslia visited the Archive on November 12 as part of a Gates of the Arctic National Park repatriation project. More information about this visit, along with some photos, is available on the Talking Alaska blog.

DY volume (finally)

We finally now have a copy of the Dene-Yeniseian volume. I cataloged it as CA973K2010. Needs a spine label.

Dealing with backups of digital files for other organizations

Karen Linnell and Tana Finnestad stopped by today to bring updated digital files for backup from the C'ek'aedi Hwnax project. I transferred these onto the computer but also wanted to upload them to the server for preservation. To facilitate this I created a new, ad-hoc record for the entire set of files: AT-AHF-2010. You can view it at:

http://www.uaf.edu/anla/collections/search/resultDetail.xml?id=AT-AHF-2010

I then put the entire batch of files (150 MB) into a folder titled AT-AHF-2010 and put that into the "Online" folder.

Since I specified a value in the Restrictions field, these files will not actually be accessible to users, but the WILL be preserved.

Automatic synchronization of online files

Online files now synchronize automatically every night. Simply drop the files into the "Online" folder:

D:\DigitalArchive\Online

and they will be uploaded automatically the next even. Files still need to be enclosed in a folder whose title is the same as the identifier of the item.

Comparative Athabaskan

I am working on a short pilot project with Digital Photo services in the Rasmussen Library to begin scanning the paper materials in the archive. To start I cataloged contributions to the Comparative Athabaskan holdings by M. Krauss. 5 boxes CA961K1961- CA961K1983 were delivered to the "scanner" this morning.

restrictions and digital files

It was pointed out at the Archive meeting yesterday that we need a way to restrict access to digital files. The current way of doing this is to upload them to the server but set the permissions of the file itself to "no access". But that's a bit clunky. So here's a better way.

I've modified the results display to only provide hyperlinks for digital files in cases where the "restrictions" field is empty. Also, the CD icon in the results display is only shown if the restrictions field is empty (unless logged in as an admin, in which case  a red !! displays after the CD icon). So now when we scan something which we don't want to make available online (e.g., Jim Kari's hand written Ahtna field notes), we can upload the files as usual to the server but put a note in the restrictions field "no public access to digital files"