<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>A request from Nick Thieberger over at the Linguistic Typology listserv.<br><br>Omnis habet sua dona dies. ~ Martial</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Nick Thieberger <<a href="mailto:thien@UNIMELB.EDU.AU">thien@UNIMELB.EDU.AU</a>><br><b>Date:</b> May 21, 2012 8:04:08 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>locating audio collections that are at risk</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:thien@unimelb.edu.au">thien@unimelb.edu.au</a><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>I am writing to ask for your help in compiling a list of linguistic</span><br><span>recordings that need to be digitised.</span><br><span></span><br><span>PARADISEC is a project that has been locating collections of</span><br><span>recordings in small and endangered languages (see the current catalog:</span><br><span><a href="http://bit.ly/SearchParadisec">http://bit.ly/SearchParadisec</a>) and digitising them where possible.</span><br><span></span><br><span>We are currently collecting information about further such collections</span><br><span>and are asking if you could fill in a brief survey form (4 questions,</span><br><span>listed below) on this page:</span><br><span><a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/PDSCSurvey.html">http://www.paradisec.org.au/PDSCSurvey.html</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Please feel free to distribute this message.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Thanks for your help,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Nick Thieberger</span><br><span></span><br><span>*************************</span><br><span>Project Manager,</span><br><span>Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered</span><br><span>Cultures (PARADISEC) <a href="http://paradisec.org.au">http://paradisec.org.au</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>1. Do you know of recordings of small or endangered languages that are</span><br><span>not yet digitised? These could be in personal collections or in</span><br><span>established repositories that do not plan to digitise their</span><br><span>collections. If so, please provide as much detail as you can about the</span><br><span>number and type of recordings (reel to reel, cassette, DAT etc), the</span><br><span>content, and the state of their current storage. Can you provide</span><br><span>information about who to contact about these collections?</span><br><span></span><br><span>2. Do you know of collections whose catalogs are not available through</span><br><span>federated searches (that is, they are only available if you visit</span><br><span>their website and not anywhere else on the web) and for which we could</span><br><span>provide a reference to make it easier to find them?</span><br><span></span><br><span>3. Do you know of repositories of manuscripts that have received</span><br><span>little attention from linguists but which are likely, in your opinion,</span><br><span>to have linguistic records in them? These may include, for example,</span><br><span>missionary archives or State administrative archives.</span><br><span></span><br><span>4. Please include your name and contact email so we can follow up with</span><br><span>you if necessary (email addresses will not be added to any lists).</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>