Research, records and responsibility: Ten years of the 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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