PARADISEC Public Profile 2003-2005
Pacific and Regional Archive of Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
http://www.paradisec.org.au

Sydney Unit (School of Society Culture and Performance, University of Sydney)
Linda Barwick, Director linda.barwick@paradisec.org.au
Frank Davey, Audio Preservation Officer frank.davey@paradisec.org.au
Amanda Harris, Miriam Corris, Corinne Bannister, Project Administration Officer admin@paradisec.org.au
Tom Honeyman, Research assistant tom.honeyman@paradisec.org.au

Melbourne Unit (Department of Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, Univ of Melbourne)
Nicholas Thieberger, Project Manager nick.thieberger@paradisec.org.au

ANU Internet Futures & APAC Store Facility
Stuart Hungerford, Web developer store@paradisec.org.au

PARADISEC is a cross-institutional collaborative project for digital archiving and access to Australian researchers’ field recordings of endangered languages and musics of the Asia-Pacific region. Digital resources are created in Sydney and Melbourne, transferred over the Grangenet network, and mirrored online in the APAC National Facility, with the support of the ANU Internet Futures project.

PARADISEC research grants
ARC LIEF grants
•	 2005 ‘PARADISEC, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures: Accessibility and Decentralisation’ (Marett, Foley, Simpson et al) LE0560711
•	 2004 ‘Digital archiving equipment for PARADISEC research archive of Asia-Pacific region audio recordings.’ (Marett, Foley, Simpson et al) LE0453247		
•	2003 ‘Quadriga system for research archive of Asia-Pacific region audio recordings’ (Marett, Foley, Simpson et al) LE0346848 
ARC Research Network Seed Funding
•	2003-2004 ARC Research Network Seed Funding SR0354738 ‘Digital Endangered Cultural Materials Network’ CIs including Barwick, Marett, Simpson, Foley
ARC Research Network
•	2005-2008. ‘Enabling Human Communication: Tough problems in human communication with bold but informed solutions drawing on sound, speech, and language research capabilities.’ Convenors: Professors Robert Dale and Denis Burnham. 
ARC E-Research SRI grants
•	2005-2006. ‘Sharing access and analytical tools for ethnographic digital media using high speed networks.’ SR0566965. Barwick, Marett, Corn and 20 others. 
•	2005-2006. ‘Distributed Access and Data Annotation for the Human Communication Sciences’ Barwick and Simpson among others.
DEST-funded national initiatives: 
•	2004-2006 Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories. Collaboration between ANU, University of Sydney, University of Queensland, the National Library and Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing under the Federated Repositories of Digital Objects programme: PARADISEC a testbed project within SORRT (Sustainable Objects Repositories for Research and Teaching)
Grangenet project grant
•	2005-6. ‘Sustainability of distributed and federated data sets in the Humanities: PARADISEC’ (Barwick)

Australian Academy of the Humanities
•	2003 Funding for PARADISEC workshop ‘Researchers, Communities, Institutions and Sound Recordings’ (Barwick and Evans) 
French Australian Science and Technology Program
•	2005 ‘Standardised methods for archiving and describing ethnographic recordings’ CIs Barwick and Michailovsky (PARADISEC and CNRS, France)

Presentations on PARADISEC 
International
•	Linda Barwick, Networking digital data on endangered languages in the Asia-Pacific region. Plenary paper presented to the International Conference on the Indigenous, University of Malaya, Legend Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, 4 July 2005.
•	Linda Barwick, PARADISEC: a university repository of qualitative research data in the humanities. Paper presented at the Australasian Sound Recordings Association Annual Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 30 June 2005. Conference website http://www.soundarchives.co.nz/What-we-have/ASRA-Conference.asp.
•	Linda Barwick, Digital data archives in the humanities: issues for the semantic web. The case of PARADISEC. Invited presentation to the workshop "Exploring eScience Session 4: Toward a semantic web for digital data archives" at the 19th Asia Pacific Advanced Networks Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, 27 January 2005. Powerpoint presentation available from http://www.apan.net/meetings/bangkok2005/presentation/Linda.zip.
•	Nick Thieberger Archiving and the Flow of Field Work presentation to the Open Language Archives Community's "Archiving and Linguistic Resources or How to keep your data from becoming endangered." February. 2005, Oakland California. http://www.language-archives.org/events/olac05/olac-lsa05-thieberger.pdf , http://www.language-archives.org/events/olac05/olac-lsa05-thieberger.ppt  
•	Linda Barwick. The Musicologist's Wishlist: Issues, practices and practicalities in documenting endangered musics, invited presentation to the workshop "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language Documentation," run by the Endangered Languages Academic Programme, SOAS, London, 4 December 2004 (http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/elap2004/). 
•	Linda Barwick. PARADISEC setup and its implications, invited presentation to the DELAMAN meeting, "International Expert Meeting on Access Management for Distributed Language Archives," Nijmegen, Netherlands, 29-30 November 2004 - presentation on PARADISEC's archiving structure and requirements for participating in proposed federated DELAMAN structure. (http://www.mpi.nl/delaman/workshop/) .
•	Linda Barwick, Using audio in musicological research: the power of the timecode. Paper presented at the Symposium of the International Musicological Society, Melbourne, Australia, 16 July 2004.
•	Nick Thieberger presented material on PARADISEC to the EMELD Working Group on Resource Archiving in July 11-13, 2004 at East Lansing, Michigan, US.
http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/emeld/workshop/2003/thieberger-demo1.html
•	Linda Barwick, Turning it all upside down: Imagining a distributed digital audio archive, refereed conference paper presented to the Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham UK, 2 September 2003. http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/harvester/viewrecord.php?id=2927
•	Nick Thieberger presented on PARADISEC to the Foundation for Endangered Languages conference in Broome, September 2003 http://www.ogmios.org/conference/index.htm
•	Linda Barwick presentation on PARADISEC at the Oceania Study Group meeting at the MSA/NZMS conference in Wellington, New Zealand 27-30 November, 2003
•	PARADISEC was represented by a poster at the Pacific Neighbourhood Consortium (PNC) conference in Bangkok, 7-9 November, 2003
•	Linda Barwick presented on PARADISEC at the eScience workshop of the 17thAsia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium (APAN) conference in Hawaii in January 2004
•	Nick Thieberger presented on  PARADISEC at the COOL conference in Vila, Vanuatu in July, 2004 http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/paclangunit/SecondCircular.htm 
•	Nick Thieberger presented on audio-text linking at the LREC conference in Lisbon, Portugal in May, 2004.

National
•	Linda Barwick, Cross-institutional research output: the PARADISEC experience. Paper presented at the APSR Colloquium "National Perspectives on Sustainability", Canberra, ANU, 10 June 2005.
•	Linda Barwick, Divide and concord: designing digital repositories in relation to cultural heritage communities. Paper presented at the Technocultures of Knowledge Series, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Canberra, 17 March 2005.
•	Linda Barwick, New collaborations in the e-humanities: endangered languages and music archives into the 21st century. Paper presented at the Grangenet Research Showcase, Canberra, 9 August 2004.
•	Linda Barwick, Digital time-based media in research: current issues and projects. Paper presented at the Computing Arts Conference 2005 Workshop "Using digital audio for research", Newcastle, NSW, 7 July 2004.
•	Linda Barwick, Digital collections and community users: some examples from PARADISEC and indigenous cultural centres in northern Australia. Paper presented at the Australasian Sound Recordings Association Annual Conference, Canberra, 13 May 2004.
•	Linda Barwick, Planning for PARADISEC. Refereed presentation to the national Ozeculture Conference in Brisbane on 31 July 2003. http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/conference3/program.htm 
Download from the Department of Communication Information Technology and The Arts website: http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/conference3/barwick/barwick.pdf
•	Linda Barwick gave a presentation on PARADISEC at the Garma Forum held in Gulkula, Arnhem Land, 11 August 2003. http://www.garma.telstra.com/forum03/music_sym.htm
•	Linda Barwick and Nick Thieberger, PARADISEC in broadband, invited presentation to the National Scholarly Communications Forum ‘Strictly Broadband’, Museum of Victoria, 31 October 2003.

Local
•	Nick Thieberger and Linda Barwick, presentation on PARADISEC to staff of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, 1 April 2003
•	Nick Thieberger, presentation on PARADISEC to Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne, 23 April 2003
•	Nick Thieberger and Linda Barwick, 'Establishing an archive of digital audio and video recordings of endangered language and cultural material of the Pacific', Department of Linguistics Research Seminar, University of Sydney, 4 April 2003
•	Nick Thieberger, presentation on PARADISEC to the Melbourne Technology for Endangered Languages Forum, 19 March 2003
•	Amanda Harris presented on PARADISEC at the Building and Managing Resources Online Forum organised by Fisher Library, University of Sydney, 18 July 2003 http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/about/whatsnew/forum.html
•	Linda Barwick, presentation on PARADISEC at the Australian E-Humanities Research Network Workshop, 11-13 December, 2003
•	Linda Barwick, presentation on PARADISEC at the Faculty of Arts Research Information Day on Digital technologies, University of Sydney, 2003
•	Stuart Hungerford presentation to the DRSIG meeting on the 27th October, 2004 entitled "The Well-Tempered Repository: About the PARADISEC Repository"

PUBLICATIONS
Barwick, L., & Thieberger, N. (2005). Cybraries in paradise: new technologies and ethnographic repositories. In C. Kapitzke & B. C. Bruce (Eds.), New libraries and knowledge spaces: critical perspectives on information and education. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Barwick, L. (2005e). Networking digital data on endangered languages of the Asia Pacific region. International Journal of Indigenous Research, 1(1), 11-16.
Barwick, L. (2004a). Turning it all upside down . . . Imagining a distributed digital audiovisual archive. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19(3), 253-263.

PARADISEC International workshop
•	Digital audio archiving workshop, ‘Researchers, Communities, Institutions and Sound Recordings’, convened by Linda Barwick  and Nicholas Evans, held at the University of Sydney 30 September-1 October 2003. http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=2
Sponsors: Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Australian E-Humanities Network, RIHSS, School of Society Culture and Performance. International attendance: Researchers from Netherlands, UK, USA, Germany, PNG, Vanuatu, NZ, Australia.  Publication: Selected papers from the workshop will be published in a refereed online publication. 

PARADISEC Australian gateway listings
•	'Australian digitisation projects' site within the Australian Libraries Gateway (ALG) ‑  http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/digitisation/dfo92.html
•	‘Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal’ http://www.acn.net.au/website/info/566.htm
•	‘Australian E-Humanities Network gateway’ http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ehum/Search/ResultItem.xsp?id=38
•	Institutional Archives Registry http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=home&country=au

PARADISEC International affiliations
•	one of 28 participating archives within the Open Language Archive Community
http://www.language-archives.org/archives.php4
•	foundation member of the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network, an international body formed in October 2003 to support documenting and archiving of endangered languages and cultural materials.
http://www.delaman.org
•	affiliation with EMELD (Electronic Metastructures for Endangered Languages Data)

Press coverage of PARADISEC
•	“Tongues live in digital library” by Dorothy Illing,  Australian Higher Education Supplement, October 15 2003, p.27. Also published online in Australian IT News, October 20 2003 http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7560532%5e16681%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
•	“Archivists unite to preserve heritage”, Isabelle Genoux interview with Linda Barwick, broadcast 1/10/2003, Pacific Beat (ABC Radio, broadcast throughout the Pacific) http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/stories/s957338.htm
•	“Archivists fight to preserve heritage”, Isabelle Genoux feature on PARADISEC broadcast 9/10/2003, Pacific Beat Forum (ABC Radio) http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/focus/s963063.htm
•	“Sydney leads effort to save endangered languages”.  University of Sydney News, 23 April 2004, p4.
•	“New technology, new collaborations”, by Louise Maral, University of Sydney Uninews (International Edition) Volume 35 No. 18, October 17, 2003, p.7.
•	Sam Davies interviews Linda Barwick, broadcast 28/9/2003, Arts Alive (ABC Radio)
•	Nick Thieberger interviewed on Radio Australia's 'Chat room', 20 Feb 2004 (ABC Radio)
•	"Precious Recordings safe at ANU" On Campus, June 2004, ANU http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Newsletters_and_Journals/On_Campus/June_2004/Recordings.asp
•	“The Role of Standards in Creating Community” Kathi Martin from Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, New York, 2004.
•	“Pacific Digital Archive set up” in APSIG Newsletter Alia Asia Pacific Special Interest Group No.56, November 2004, 2.

Consultancies provided by PARADISEC
•	Tun Jugah Foundation (Malaysia) (paid for a lexicography course delivered by PARADISEC) 
•	Digitisation of cassettes for the Larrakiya Language Project
•	Digital Audio for Research at the 2004 Computing Arts conference in Newcastle
•	Monash one-day training session with the Maluku project in March 2004 (http://www.arts.monash.edu/ling/maluku/). 
•	“Creating and Managing Digital Audio for Research”  one day training session at Computing Arts 2004, Newcastle, July, 2004
•	On October 20th, 2004, Paradisec in association with the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity ran a training workshop at Melbourne University attended by 14 linguists covering issues of transcription, time-alignment and interlinearising texts. The software demonstrated was Elan, Transcriber, Audiamus and Shoebox, as well as a brief discussion of regular expression parsers.
•	Training session 9th-10th November: Wangkanyi Ngurra Tjurta, Kalgoorlie Language Centre
•	Training session 2nd-3rd December: Murrbay, Many Rivers Aboriginal Language Centre
•	Training session 9th December: NSW Language Centre, Tranby