Most of you who have been keeping an eye on this blog for a while will know about the conference organised by Paradisec last year on Sustainable data from digital fieldwork, but you might not know about its predecessor in 2003, Paradisec’s inaugural workshop, Researchers, communities, institutions and sound recordings. The papers from this workshop, along with those from the 2006 conference, have now been made available online through the Sydney eScholarship Repository.
The 2003 workshop attracted participants from near and far and we had speakers and participants from Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Germany, the USA, England and many different parts of Australia. Initially the refereed papers from this workshop were published online through Open Conference Systems. In their new homes as part of the eScholarship repository, each paper has a fixed URL and the main page of the collection can be accessed at http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/1319.
To go directly to an individual paper, click on one of the links below:
Introduction: “The need for a Pacific languages archive” by Andrew Pawley
“Challenges in the repatriation of historic recordings to Papua New Guinea” by Don Niles and Vincent Palie
“Critical choices, critical decisions: sound archiving and changing technology” by Kevin Bradley
“Digital encounters with Pacific Island Radio and Television Archives” by Richard Moyle
“History, memory and music: The repatriation of digital audio to Yolngu communities, or, memory as metadata” by Peter Toner
“Multilingual Multiperson Multimedia: Linking Audio-Visual with Text Material in Language Documentation” by Patrick McConvell
“‘Now Balanda Say We Lost Our Land in 1788’: Challenges to the Recognition of Yolŋu Law in Contemporary Australia” by Aaron Corn and Neparrŋa Gumbula
“The politics of context: issues for law, researchers and the creation of databases” by Jane Anderson and Grace Koch
“Representing information about words digitally” by Jane Simpson
“Searching for meaning in the Library of Babel: field semantics and problems of digital archiving” by Nicholas Evans and Hans-Jürgen Sasse
“Sound recordings as maruy among the Aborigines of the Daly region of north west Australia” by Allan Marett
We are also in the process of uploading mp3s to accompany the papers from the Sustainable data from digital fieldwork conference – stay tuned for more information!
Follow
Here at Endangered Languages and Cultures, we fully welcome your opinion, questions and comments on any post, and all posts will have an active comments form. However if you have never commented before, your comment may take some time before it is approved. Subsequent comments from you should appear immediately.
We will not edit any comments unless asked to, or unless there have been html coding errors, broken links, or formatting errors. We still reserve the right to censor any comment that the administrators deem to be unnecessarily derogatory or offensive, libellous or unhelpful, and we have an active spam filter that may reject your comment if it contains too many links or otherwise fits the description of spam. If this happens erroneously, email the author of the post and let them know. And note that given the huge amount of spam that all WordPress blogs receive on a daily basis (hundreds) it is not possible to sift through them all and find the ham.
In addition to the above, we ask that you please observe the Gricean maxims:*Be relevant: That is, stay reasonably on topic.
*Be truthful: This goes without saying; don’t give us any nonsense.
*Be concise: Say as much as you need to without being unnecessarily long-winded.
*Be perspicuous: This last one needs no explanation.
We permit comments and trackbacks on our articles. Anyone may comment. Comments are subject to moderation, filtering, spell checking, editing, and removal without cause or justification.
All comments are reviewed by comment spamming software and by the site administrators and may be removed without cause at any time. All information provided is volunteered by you. Any website address provided in the URL will be linked to from your name, if you wish to include such information. We do not collect and save information provided when commenting such as email address and will not use this information except where indicated. This site and its representatives will not be held responsible for errors in any comment submissions.
Again, we repeat: We reserve all rights of refusal and deletion of any and all comments and trackbacks.