Researchers, communities, institutions and sound recordings (2003): Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
’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