Browsing Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital scholarship by publication year
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The Digital Nehan Songbook Project
Published 2011-01-01The Digital Nehan Songbook project seeks to add native language songs to the broader project of describing and documenting Nehan, an Oceanic language spoken on Nissan Island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua ...Open AccessConference paper -
Roundtable on the ethics of making publicly available historical data 'more' public through linkage and database construction
Published 2011-01-01Over recent decades there has been a burgeoning of individual-level population data available from historical records, including censuses, and birth, death and marriage registers. These can be linked to other historical ...Open AccessConference paper -
Online presentation of media and text. Foundations for verification of analyses.
Published 2011-01-01Schroeter and Thieberger (2006) reported on the development of EOPAS, a method for presenting interlinear text together with the media it transcribes, using timecodes to access points in the media correlated to corresponding ...Open AccessConference paper -
Community-based website building: The Language Documentation Training Center’s approach to mentor-mentee partnership
Published 2011-01-01Since its founding in 2004, the Language Documentation Training Center (LDTC) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa has helped more than 80 participants publish web sites documenting various aspects of their native languages ...Open AccessConference paper -
Digital representation and the use of shared texts: the case of a theatrical prompt book
Published 2011-01-01The digitisation of cultural textual artefacts is focussed on conservation in digital archives and on the information retrieval tools for which they are designed. Many such artefacts, however, exist only in the form of ...Open AccessConference paper -
Creating a digital wordlist for Lopit: a case study in time and motion
Published 2011-01-01A vast range of techniques and technologies is now available to those working in language documentation. With so many options for the collection, storage and presentation of data, it is essential to find and maintain ...Open AccessConference paper -
Getting it Right from the Start
Published 2011-01-01Setting parameters and calibrating digital research tools at the outset of humanities research can pay dividends in facilitating the preservation of data and facilitating its reuse. This paper explores approaches to both ...Open AccessConference paper -
Dual levels of significance in Australian historical data: the case for equilibrium
Published 2011-01-01This presentation will examine a number of digitised historical corpuses available to Australian researchers to illuminate their ongoing significance within digital scholarship. Many of the corpuses are available through ...Open AccessConference paper -
Investigating Connected Speech from Tohono O'odham Digitized Legacy Data
Published 2011-01-01Archival and legacy resources provide rich material for linguistic investigation, provided such materials are accessible. The growing number of digital tools offers prospects for investigating new research questions. Working ...Open AccessConference paper -
Found: Data, Textuality, and the Digital Humanities
Published 2011-01-01Computational processes generate lists: lists of numbers, lists of words, lists of coordinates, lists of properties. We transform these lists into more exalted forms -- visualizations, maps, information systems, software ...Open AccessConference paper -
Challenges in lemmatising signed language digital video corpora: the measure of lexical frequency in Australian and British signed languages
Published 2011-01-01Digital video archives of Auslan (Australian sign language) and BSL (British Sign Language) are slowly being transformed into machine-readable linguistic corpora. Each archive (Auslan 2004-2008, BSL 2008-2001) consists of ...Open AccessConference paper -
Archaeological database development: the people and place project
Published 2011-01-01This project, funded by ANDS in 2011, will build the platform for a national database of historical archaeological collections, excavated sites and the people connected to those objects and places; to be called the Australian ...Open AccessConference paper -
Jurra is best: Metadata design for a range of outputs from legacy recordings
Published 2011-01-01This paper describes recent work with Gun-nartpa language material recorded on cassette tape in the Maningrida region in 1993-4. Returning in 2010 after a long absence I have commenced working in collaboration with Gun-nartpa ...Open AccessConference paper -
'On-line' resources for off-line communities
Published 2011-01-01In small communities in Central Australia, many Aboriginal language speakers do not have access to computers or internet. In such contexts, how then do we ensure research materials are 'on-line' to the people with whom we ...Open AccessConference paper -
Sharing humanities data for e-research: conceptual and technical issues
Published 2011-12-01The humanities, as defined by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, encompass the following disciplines: Archaeology; Asian Studies; Classical Studies; English; European Languages and Cultures; History; Linguistics; ...Open AccessConference paper -
Culture documentation as linguistic stimulus
Published 2011-12-01known that various 'traditional' or locally-based cultural and economic practices are declining or changing rapidly. This paper will show how well-filmed short videos of endangered cultural practices can be used for eliciting ...Open AccessConference paper -
Going beyond archiving - a collaborative tool for typological research
Published 2011-12-01The work described in this paper aims to outline some of the design aspects for a collaborative tool for typological research. This tool is designed to allow for the collation, from multiple contributors, of linguistic ...Open AccessConference paper -
Assessing the Value of Semantic Annotation Services for 3D Museum Artefacts
Published 2011-12-01This paper describes the 3DSA (3D Semantic Annotation) system developed at the University of Queensland that enables users to attach tags/annotations to points, surface regions or segments of 3D digital artefacts. The 3DSA ...Open AccessConference paper -
The ‘Language Archiving Technology’ solutions for sustainable data from digital research
Published 2011-12-01Since the late 1990s, the technical group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics has worked on solutions for several of the questions addressed in this paradisec-meeting, in particular, how to guarantee ...Open AccessConference paper