<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>we are not quite "Pacific", but in principle, this might interest some of us.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>JL<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div>Univ.Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso</div><div>Universität Wien, Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (EVSL)</div><div>Abteilung Finno-Ugristik</div><div>Campus AAKH Spitalgasse 2-4 Hof 7</div><div>A-1090 Wien</div><div><a href="mailto:johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at">johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at</a> • <a href="http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/">http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/</a></div><div>Project ELDIA: <a href="http://www.eldia-project.org/">http://www.eldia-project.org/</a> </div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br><div>Välitetty viesti alkaa:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Lähettäjä: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Nick Thieberger <<a href="mailto:thien@UNIMELB.EDU.AU">thien@UNIMELB.EDU.AU</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Aihe: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>locating audio collections that are at risk</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Päivämäärä: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">22. toukokuuta 2012 2.04.08 UTC+2.00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Vastaanottaja: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Vastaus: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:thien@unimelb.edu.au">thien@unimelb.edu.au</a><br></span></div><br><div>I am writing to ask for your help in compiling a list of linguistic<br>recordings that need to be digitised.<br><br>PARADISEC is a project that has been locating collections of<br>recordings in small and endangered languages (see the current catalog:<br><a href="http://bit.ly/SearchParadisec">http://bit.ly/SearchParadisec</a>) and digitising them where possible.<br><br>We are currently collecting information about further such collections<br>and are asking if you could fill in a brief survey form (4 questions,<br>listed below) on this page:<br><a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/PDSCSurvey.html">http://www.paradisec.org.au/PDSCSurvey.html</a><br><br>Please feel free to distribute this message.<br><br>Thanks for your help,<br><br>Nick Thieberger<br><br>*************************<br>Project Manager,<br>Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered<br>Cultures (PARADISEC) http://paradisec.org.au<br><br><br>1. Do you know of recordings of small or endangered languages that are<br>not yet digitised? These could be in personal collections or in<br>established repositories that do not plan to digitise their<br>collections. If so, please provide as much detail as you can about the<br>number and type of recordings (reel to reel, cassette, DAT etc), the<br>content, and the state of their current storage. Can you provide<br>information about who to contact about these collections?<br><br>2. Do you know of collections whose catalogs are not available through<br>federated searches (that is, they are only available if you visit<br>their website and not anywhere else on the web) and for which we could<br>provide a reference to make it easier to find them?<br><br>3. Do you know of repositories of manuscripts that have received<br>little attention from linguists but which are likely, in your opinion,<br>to have linguistic records in them? These may include, for example,<br>missionary archives or State administrative archives.<br><br>4. Please include your name and contact email so we can follow up with<br>you if necessary (email addresses will not be added to any lists).<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>