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| Title: | Cybraries in paradise: new technologies and ethnographic repositories. |
| Authors: | Barwick, Linda
Thieberger, Nicholas |
| Keywords: | ethnography
ethnomusicology
linguistics
information management
digital technologies
cultural heritage |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |
| Citation: | Barwick, L., & Thieberger, N. (2006). Cybraries in paradise: new technologies and ethnographic repositories. In C. Kapitzke & B. C. Bruce (Eds.), Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice (pp. 133-149). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum. |
| Abstract: | Digital technologies are altering research practices surrounding creation and use
of ethnographic field recordings, and the methodologies and paradigms of the
disciplines centered around their interpretation. In this chapter we discuss some
examples of our current research practices as fieldworkers in active engagement
with cultural heritage communities documenting music and language in the Asia-
Pacific region, and as developers and curators of the digital repository
PARADISEC (the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in
Endangered Cultures: <http://paradisec.org.au>). We suggest a number of benefits
that the use of digital technologies can bring to the recording of material from
small and endangered cultures, and to its re-use by communities and researchers.
We believe it is a matter of social justice as well as scientific interest that
ethnographic recordings held in higher education institutions should be preserved
and made accessible to future generations. We argue that, with appropriate
planning and care by researchers, digitization of research recordings in
audiovisual media can facilitate access by remote communities to records of their
cultural heritage held in higher education institutions to a far greater extent than
was possible in the analog age. |
| Description: | Note: This is a postprint, with the pagination adjusted to match the published version for citation.
Used with permission from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (30 November 2006). Visit http://www.erlbaum.com to purchase a copy of the book. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1321 |
| ISBN: | 0-8058-5481-9 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Papers
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