Open access and intimate fieldwork
A report on the Linguistics in the Pub discussion Tuesday 11th March, Prince Alfred Hotel, Grattan St, Melbourne. This Linguistics in the Pub discussion brought together fieldworkers who do research in...
View ArticleDavid Nathan on EL Publishing’s first month, about Open Access, and being...
David Nathan writes EL Publishing is a new online publisher which was launched on 18th July and which will publish a journal, multimedia, and monographs, focussing on documentation and description of...
View ArticleChasing John Z’graggen’s records
This week a suitcase of audio tapes will arrive in Melbourne from Madang in PNG. While a lot of the effort of building collections in PARADISEC goes in finding tapes and encouraging people to deposit...
View ArticleResults of the metadata survey
Keeping track of what is recorded in the course of fieldwork is critical, both for your own future work and for longterm archiving. Recordings of dynamic performance (audio or video) are easy to...
View ArticlePacific Manuscripts now in PARADISEC
After some discussion between PARADISEC and the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PAMBU) we now have access to linguistic records in the PAMBU microfilm collection, either for tagging in the PARADISEC...
View ArticleFinding what is not there
A major part of PARADISEC’s effort goes in finding and digitising audio tapes that record performance in the many small languages of the world. As discussed in a number of posts on this blog it is...
View ArticleMouldy Mayhem
Recently the call came to the Sydney office of PARADISEC that a collection of tapes had arrived in Melbourne that needed some cleaning (see the earlier post here). The tapes were from Madang in Papua...
View ArticleWorking together to bring legacy Pacific language recordings to light
This is the story of institutional collaboration at its best. In 2013 Bill Palmer sent through a list of 78 rpm discs held by the National Library of Australia, summarised in their catalog as follows:...
View ArticleMerging SayMore audio snippets into a single wav file
SayMore is a piece of software developed by SIL that (among other things) allows you to annotate a primary audio file with audio annotations. This means that speakers can add information by carefully...
View ArticleHoniara language workshop, August 2019
The Solomon Islands Kulu Language Institute (KLI) organised a workshop in August this year that attracted 100 participants representing 44 languages of the Solomon Islands. The venue was the leaf...
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