SharePoint brought in to rescue Aboriginal language (fwd)

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SharePoint brought in to rescue Aboriginal language

22 Aug 2007 09:28

SharePoint and Access used to preserve the Awabakal indigenous dialect in
digital form

With some Australian Aboriginal languages facing extinction, the Arwarbukarl
Cultural Resource Association (ACRA) has adopted Microsoft SharePoint and
Access to help its work to preserve one indigenous dialect.

Based on Access, ACRA has created its own program, Miromaa — meaning "saved"
in Awabakal — to store data and research into the Awabakal language, and is
using SharePoint Server 2007 to share its work with other Aboriginal groups
to help the spread and restoration of the language.

According to ACRA, the system can help archive "all evidences of language
including, text, audio, images and video" as Word documents and
spreadsheets.

In the future, ACRA plans to make Miromaa available using a web-based
platform to enable other groups to contribute to its research as well as
enabling Aboriginal communities to use ACRA's work in their own language
studies.

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