Shoehorning complex metadata in the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages
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The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages is making endangered literature in Australian Indigenous languages publicly available online (Bow et al. 2014). Like any other project attempting to package a vastly complex body of work into an accessible repository, this project has grappled with a number of complex issues. Wrangling a variety of text types, languages, locations, digitisation processes, metadata and other issues into an accessible online repository requires a great deal of shoehorning.The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages is making endangered literature in Australian Indigenous languages publicly available online (Bow et al. 2014). Like any other project attempting to package a vastly complex body of work into an accessible repository, this project has grappled with a number of complex issues. Wrangling a variety of text types, languages, locations, digitisation processes, metadata and other issues into an accessible online repository requires a great deal of shoehorning.
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2015-01-01Publisher
Sydney University PressLicence
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Bow, C., Christie, M. & Devlin, B. (2015). Shoehorning complex metadata in the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages. In A. Harris, N. Thieberger & L. Barwick (Eds.) 'Research, records and responsibility: ten years of PARADISEC' (pp. 115-131). Sydney: Sydney University Press.Share