<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>As the prospects of travel for fieldwork or research are reduced at the moment it may be worth considering some alternatives, especially for PhD students. <br></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Language archives have huge amounts of information that could be used for new research and would suit at-home fieldwork.</div><div><br></div><div>For
 example, PARADISEC has several collections that are ideal for 
descriptive work, or for further analysis of linguistic features not 
already addressed by the original researcher. Some highlights are:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Calvin Roesler's notes and audio for Asmat:<br></div><div><a href="http://paradisec.org.au/fieldnotes/ROES/web/roes.htm" target="_blank">http://paradisec.org.au/fieldnotes/ROES/web/roes.htm</a></div><div><a href="https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/CR1" target="_blank">https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/CR1</a></div><div><br></div><div>Ngunese, two books of texts and related audio recorded by Al Schütz and Ellen Facey:</div><div><a href="https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/EF1" target="_blank">https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/EF1</a></div><div><a href="https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AS1" target="_blank">https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AS1</a></div><div><br></div><div>Alan Walker's Timor work (Sabu) includes copious notes and recordings that he was unable to analyse before his untimely death:<br></div><div><a href="https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AW2" target="_blank">https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AW2</a></div><div><br></div><div>Ian Frazer's To'aba'ita recordings (work could complement the existing research by Frank Lichtenberk<br></div><div><a href="https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/IF01" target="_blank">https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/IF01</a></div><div><br></div><div>This could also be an ideal time to consolidate and deposit your own field materials with an archive (e.g., <a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/deposit/" target="_blank">http://www.paradisec.org.au/deposit/</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings from a physically but not socially distant colleague,</div><div><br></div><div>Nick Thieberger</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-family:Arial">***********************</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-family:Arial">Assoc.Prof. Nick Thieberger</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-family:Arial">School of Languages and Linguistics</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-family:Arial">The University of Melbourne</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-family:Arial">Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-family:Arial">+61 3 8344 8952</span></span></span><br><a href="http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/thieberger" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><u>http://</u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="font-family:Arial"><u><a href="http://nthieberger.net" target="_blank">nthieberger.net</a></u></span></span></span><br><br><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-family:Arial">Social and Cultural Informatics Platform (SCIP) Manager</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-family:Arial">Director, </span></span><a href="http://paradisec.org.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="font-family:Arial">Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)</span></span></a></span><br><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-family:Arial">Editor, </span></span><a href="http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="font-family:Arial">Language Documentation & Conservation Journal </span></span></a></span><br><span style="font-size:9px"><span style="color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="font-family:Arial">CI in the  </span></span><a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(18,85,204)"><span style="font-family:Arial">Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language</span></span></a></span><br></span><div><img src="cid:ii_k7ww41c80" alt="image.png" style="margin-right:0px" width="200" height="39"><br><br></div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>