PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures): Recent submissions
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SCRIPTSOURCE: making information on the world’s scripts and languages accessible
Published 2013-01-01Although there is plenty of script and language information on the web, there has been a need for a site to present the information authoritatively and clearly, making it easier to understand the often complex relationships ...Open AccessPresentation -
Towards a Nhangga hermeneutic: breathing life into written archival materials
Published 2013-01-01This paper is concerned with issues arising from the translation of a dreaming story from English/Aboriginal English back into an extremely endangered Aboriginal language. The story of Bilarl (Sooty Bell Magpie) was recorded ...Open AccessPresentation -
Like a “Swiss knife which cuts in two directions”: On the development and use of SpeechIndexer as a documentation and teaching tool
Published 2013-01-01SpeechIndexer has been developed for language documentation and learning at the ETH in Zurich. Its original goal was to help access the archive recordings of endangered Austronesian languages of Taiwan. In later years, it ...Open AccessPresentation -
Why ScriptSource makes a good hub for language documentation
Published 2013-01-01The ScriptSource website is designed to be an authoritative source of information on the world’s scripts, characters and languages, and the relationships between them. The site presents substantial core data, including ...Open AccessRecording, oral -
Collaborative language documentation with networked smartphones
Published 2013-01-01Aikuma is an Android app for collecting and sharing recordings and phrase-aligned commentaries, including respeakings and translations. Recordings are automatically synchronised between phones. A new web-based transcriber ...Open AccessRecording, oral