Academic fieldwork data collections are often unique and unrepeatable records of highly significant events collected at considerable expense of researcher time, effort and resources. While fieldworkers have been quick to take advantage of digital technologies to enable them to collect and organise their data, standards and workflows are only now beginning to emerge to assist researchers to submit their data for archiving and access. Even equipped with the best training, equipment and intentions, fieldworkers very often (if not always) find their data collection activities constrained in unpredictable ways by contingencies that arise in the field. With the increasing use of digital methods of data capture and organisation, the sustainability and curation services offered by archives and institutional repositories are needed more than ever.

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This collection of refereed papers from the conference of the same name held at the University of Sydney in December 2006 provides a record of recent research practice by fieldworkers in linguistics, botany and anthropology, and by archive and repository managers.

Alongside the refereed proceedings available in this collection, five mp3 podcasts of unpublished papers given at the conference are also available for download.

To purchase a hard copy of the proceedings please visit the Sydney University Press web site.

Recent Submissions

  • Using fieldwork data in publications: musicology 

    Barwick, Linda
    Published 2006-01-01
    Unpublished presentation from the Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork Conference at the University of Sydney, 5th December 2006
    Open Access
    Conference paper
  • Table of Contents 

    Unknown author
    Published 2007-03-29
    Open Access
    Other
  • The dawning of the age of online collections 

    Burton, Adrian
    Published 2007-02-20
    Unpublished presentation from the Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork Conference at the University of Sydney, 5th December 2006
    Open Access
    Conference paper
  • The Bidwern project 

    Monus, Leo; McKenzie, Kim; Garde, Murray
    Published 2007-02-20
    Unpublished presentation from the Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork Conference at the University of Sydney, 5th December 2006
    Open Access
    Conference paper
  • Sustainability models for digital preservation 

    Pearson, David
    Published 2007-02-20
    Unpublished presentation from the Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork Conference at the University of Sydney, 5th December 2006
    Open Access
    Conference paper

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