[RNLD] PARADISEC Decade Celebration Conference: Registration now open

[Nick Thieberger]

Research, records and responsibility (RRR): Ten years of the Pacific and
Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)

Dates: 2nd-4th December 2013

*Venue: Old Arts, Lecture Theatre C, University of Melbourne, Australia*

*Keynote Speaker*

   Shubha Chaudhuri
   Associate Director General (Academic)
   Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology
   American Institute of Indian Studies
   Gurgaon, India


Registration page: http://paradisec.org.au/2013Conf.html

Program: http://paradisec.org.au/RRRProgram.html

Topics include:

   - new tools and methods for digital fieldwork
   - community-driven archive projects and how they might change the way
   archives operate;
   - dialogic fieldwork, how archival materials might influence the way
   researchers do fieldwork;
   - the reanimation of archival materials - communities breathing life
   into historical recordings;
   - the use of archived ethnographic material for:
      - linguistic analysis
      - other scholarly research
      - building corpora from archival materials
      - unexpected uses of archived linguistic or musicological records
   - benefits of textual corpora with linked media
   - collections as scholarly outputs – criteria for assessment
   - sharing data and metadata across archives nationally and
   internationally
   - locating, describing and digitising analog collections, what remains
   to be done?

The Advisory Committee is:
Kevin Bradley (National Library of Australia),
Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley, California Language Archive),
Gary Holton (Alaska Native Language Center),
Nicole Kruspe (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible
Heritage, Lund),
Susan Kung (Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America)
Åshild Naess (Newcastle University),
Paul Trilsbeek (MPI Nijmegen, DELAMAN),
Jane Simpson (Australian National University). The Organising Committee is:

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   - Linda Barwick (University of Sydney),
   - Amanda Harris (University of Sydney),
   - Simon Musgrave (Monash University),
   - Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne).
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