- Source
- Written Communication
- Published
- 11 May 2026
- Authors
- Ellen Cushman
Excerpt from source
The problem of data extraction to feed LLMs impacts all digital archives and open-sourced initiatives. Though the practice of data-scraping bots used to create the LLMs that feed algorithms is recent, extractivist models of language documentation are nothing new. To redress the challenges presented by extractivist methods, Indigenous language scholars and linguists as well as digital archivists and librarians have innovated methodologies to provide for a mutually sustaining relationship between language documentation efforts and indigenous language practices with the goal of enhancing language persistence practices and recuperating dormant practices. The Digital Archive of Indigenous…
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