PARADISEC: its history and future
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Founded 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 Cultures is now celebrating its ten-year anniversary. In the first ...
See moreFounded 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 Cultures is now celebrating its ten-year anniversary. In the first decade of operation, PARADISEC created an archive of more than 3000 hours of audio recordings of language and music recordings from the Pacific, Asia and beyond. The digital collection now contains over 6 TB of data with a queue of audio, video and image files still to be ingested into the archive, and PARADISEC was recently included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. In this presentation, we will trace the development of PARADISEC from its origins as a storage facility for precious research data. We will discuss the ways that uses of the archive have grown and changed over the years, and reflect on prospects for PARADISEC's future in a fragile funding environment.
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See moreFounded 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 Cultures is now celebrating its ten-year anniversary. In the first decade of operation, PARADISEC created an archive of more than 3000 hours of audio recordings of language and music recordings from the Pacific, Asia and beyond. The digital collection now contains over 6 TB of data with a queue of audio, video and image files still to be ingested into the archive, and PARADISEC was recently included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. In this presentation, we will trace the development of PARADISEC from its origins as a storage facility for precious research data. We will discuss the ways that uses of the archive have grown and changed over the years, and reflect on prospects for PARADISEC's future in a fragile funding environment.
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2013-01-01Licence
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