Browsing Researchers, communities, institutions and sound recordings (2003) by title
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Challenges in the repatriation of historic recordings to Papua New Guinea
Published 2004-01-01For over one hundred years, visitors to Papua New Guinea have been making recordings of music in our country. Prior to independence in 1975, many of these recordings ended up in archives in the countries of their collectors, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Critical choices, critical decisions: sound archiving and changing technology
Published 2004-01-01In a relatively short period of time sound archivists have had to come to terms with some fundamental paradigm shifts in the way they approach sound archiving. For example, in December 1997, in response to the first ...Open AccessConference paper -
Digital encounters with Pacific Island Radio and Television Archives
Published 2004-01-01Although the Archive of Maori and Pacific Music is located within the University of Auckland and is used by staff and students, the last decade has seen a steady increase in the proportion of non-university users to the ...Open AccessConference paper -
History, memory and music: The repatriation of digital audio to Yolngu communities, or, memory as metadata
Published 2004-01-01This paper will examine a range of issues surrounding the documentation, digitization, and repatriation of archival field recordings of Yolngu music as an integral part of a project on the history of Arnhem Land music ...Open AccessConference paper -
Introduction: The need for a Pacific languages archive
Published 2004-01-01Why do we need an archive of sound recordings of the languages (and music, oral literature, etc.) of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands? The short answer is simple: To preserve for posterity as rich as possible ...Open AccessConference paper -
Multilingual Multiperson Multimedia: Linking Audio-Visual with Text Material in Language Documentation
Published 2004-01-01Language documentation for endangered and Indigenous languages has been rapidly moving towards a more holistic view of what is to be captured, including a range of genres, conversation as well as narrative. Most of the ...Open AccessConference paper -
’Now Balanda Say We Lost Our Land in 1788’: Challenges to the Recognition of Yolŋu Law in Contemporary Australia
Published 2004-01-01This essay examines some of the cultural underpinnings of contemporary Yolŋu calls for the comprehensive recognition of their full political rights and legal jurisdiction over northeast Arnhem Land by Australian governments. ...Open AccessConference paper -
The politics of context: issues for law, researchers and the creation of databases
Published 2004-01-01Field recordings pose many dilemmas for intellectual property law, researchers, and the creation of databases containing Indigenous knowledge. Challenges arise because these field recordings in tangible form undergo constant ...Open AccessConference paper -
Representing information about words digitally
Published 2004-01-01The late 1960s saw the start of the "electronic-dictionary age" (de Schryver, 2003). The growth in the use of computers has transformed all aspects of dictionary-making, from collecting data about word meanings and uses, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Searching for meaning in the Library of Babel: field semantics and problems of digital archiving
Published 2004-01-01Languages are made up of linguistic signs, each of which is a conventional pairing of a form and a meaning. In spoken languages, the form is sound; in signed languages, it is a visual sign. A central task in documenting ...Open AccessConference paper -
Sound recordings as maruy among the Aborigines of the Daly region of north west Australia
Published 2004-01-01This paper reflects on a set of anxieties concerning the relationship between living traditions of song and dance and the body of audio recordings of these traditions that have been generated in the course of my research. ...Open AccessConference paper