A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

1.2 Linguistic documentation of Pite Saami
language community themselves, as well as the present description. Initial results
have been archived at five archives at international, national, regional and
local levels:
• The Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) at the School for Oriental and
African Studies in London;
• The Language Archive at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in
Nijmegen;
• Dialekt-, ortnamns och folkminnesarkivet i Umeå 16 (DAUM) in Umeå, Sweden;
• Ájtte: Svenskt Fjäll- och Samemuseum 17 in Jokkmokk, Sweden;
• Silvermuseet 18 in Arjeplog, Sweden.
Working with multiple archiving sites as well as having all data in a digital format
help ensure accessibility to and longevity of the data.
Access to the materials is available via the archives (in some cases, this is possible
via the world wide web). Ideally, an archive should provide interested parties
with access to archived materials, while respecting the privacy and the wishes of
recording participants as necessary; with this in mind, access rights to the data
related to any given session reflect the wishes of speakers involved in a specific
session concerning availability to the linguistics and other scientific communities,
the Pite Saami and greater Saami communities, and other individuals and
groups in general. Furthermore, as part of a scientific endeavor, the claims made
in this book about Pite Saami linguistic structures should be reproducible; with
this in mind, the original data are available to the academic community via the
Language Archive at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen,
the Netherlands; see §1.2.3.2 for more details on accessing the archive.
1.2.2.1 Collection methods
Data were collected and recordings were transcribed during a total of 23 months
at the field site in and around Arjeplog, Sweden, with the invaluable assistance
16 ‘The Department of Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Umeå’.
17 ‘Ájtte: the Swedish Mountain and Saami Museum’; ájtte is the Lule Saami word for a traditional
Saami storage shed.
18 ‘The Silver Museum’.
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