Browsing Research, records and responsibility: Ten years of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures by title
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The Archives and the Community
Published 2013-01-01The Community and the archive – preservation, ownership and dissemination. Archives had been thought of remote ivory tower spaces with dim vaults and dusty shelves. However archives have been changing as what is archives ...Open AccessPresentation -
Are Collections Scholarly Outputs? Re-defining Research Quality and Impact of Cultural Performative Findings
Published 2013-01-01The paper explores user-centred cultural heritage collections which are rooted in community life and scholarship, and searches for new terminology and rationale to define them as research outputs first by examining notions ...Open AccessPresentation -
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 -
The corpus of Polish Sign Language (PJM): Methodology, procedures and impact
Published 2013-01-01Polish Sign Language (polski język migowy, usually abbreviated as PJM) is a natural visual-spatial language used by the Polish Deaf community. It emerged around 1817, with the foundation of the first school for the deaf ...Open AccessPresentation -
Integrating archiving into the Language Documentation curriculum at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Published 2013-01-01The language documentation and conservation (LD&C) track in the Master of Arts program in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (UHM) is unique in the United States and one of only a small ...Open Access -
KinOath Kinship Archiver Version 1.4
Published 2013-01-01This talk will introduce a new tool for Humanities research, in particular Ethnology, Linguistics, Law, History, but also Genetics and Archiving. This tool is KinOath Kinship Archiver which is an application for collecting ...Open AccessPresentation -
The language codes of ISO 639: A premature, ultimately unobtainable, and possibly damaging standardization
Published 2013-01-01009 Stephen Morey, Mark W. Post and Victor Friedman The language codes of ISO 639: A premature and possibly unobtainable standardization ISO 639 is an ambitious attempt to standardize and organize various types of ...Open AccessPresentation -
Language Identifying Codes: Remaining Issues, Future Prospects
Published 2013-01-01The work of organisations such as PARADISEC is crucially dependent on accurate and reliable identification of the languages which are represented in resources. For efficient discovery of resources to be possible, an ...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 -
Linguistic scholarship in the data-driven 21st century
Published 2013-01-01Linguistic scholarship in the data‐driven 21st century Two important forces have been acting on the discipline of linguistics since late in the twentieth century: technological changes which allow the capture and dissemination ...Open AccessPresentation -
The Ma! Project: Crowdsourcing Software for Language Documentation
Published 2013-01-01The Ma! Project's (themaproject.org/) first app + database package is a crowdsourcing lexicon development system consisting of a smartphone/tablet app which allows users to sync audio, video, text and image data to an ...Presentation -
Making the most out of the past: Retrieving and archiving old records of the Innu language
Published 2013-01-01In a situation of language endangerment, communities express a strong need for the documentation and preservation of their language which is increasingly threatened as the older generations of monolinguals pass away. This ...Open Access -
Mobilising the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages
Published 2013-01-01Originally started through an impetus to preserve thousands of books produced in Aboriginal languages during the years of bilingual education in the Northern Territory, the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages ...Open AccessPresentation -
New Developments in Arbil Metadata Manager
Published 2013-01-01This talk will introduce Arbil which is a tool for managing metadata that describes research data, such as audio or video files, allowing research data files to be easily searched both before and after they are archived. ...Open AccessPresentation -
PARADISEC: its history and future
Published 2013-01-01Founded in 2003 by a team of linguists and musicologists at the University of Sydney, Australian National University and the University of Melbourne, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered ...Open AccessPresentation -
The 'reach' of Digital Language Archives: towards criteria for evaluation
Published 2013-01-01Over the last decade, and with the help of digital media and technologies, archives (with the focus here on archives for endangered and minority languages) have extended their focus from preservation to also becoming ...Open AccessPresentation -
Reconstructing, Reinterpreting, and Repatriating Musical Instrument Data in Ethnomusicological Archives
Published 2013-01-01In-depth ethnomusicological research on musical instrument production and use is surprisingly scant. At the same time, field data compiled by ethnomusicologists since the mid-twentieth century, now housed in archives and ...Open AccessPresentation -
The RefLex project: documenting and exploring lexical resources in Africa
Published 2013-01-01The RefLex project aims at testing a set of fundamental hypotheses concerning the structure and the evolution of African languages that are often mentioned in the literature, but whose validity was never demonstrated on ...Open AccessRecording, oral -
Repatriating childhood: Issues in the ethical return of Venda children’s musical materials from the archival collection of John Blacking
Published 2013-01-01In academic disciplines that engage in ethnographic field research there have been dramatic shifts in the ways in which scholars approach work with children and young people, guided by changes to institutional Human Ethics ...Open AccessPresentation -
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