[RNLD] Workshop: Engaging and enhancing the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages

[Cathy Bow]

Workshop: Engaging and enhancing the Living
Archive of Aboriginal Languages

 
ANU Canberra, 7 March 2014

To coincide with the 13th
annual Australian Languages Workshop at ANU Kioloa, the Living Archive of
Aboriginal Languages projectteamis inviting interested linguists and
language workers to a workshop to explore various possibilities for engagement
with the resources in the archive and its ongoing development.
 
The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages ARC LIEF project has been
digitising materials published in bilingual education programs in Indigenous
languages of the Northern Territory since the mid 1970s. The open access
website at www.cdu.edu.au/laalcurrently includes over 800 items in over 20
languages, with another 2000 items awaiting permission from owners to make
public.
 
A second round of funding
has been secured from the ARC for four key strands of development: 
1.      the ‘search and rescue’ of additional materials in NT languages produced
outside the bilingual education program; 
2.      academic engagementto connect interested researchers with language
authorities in the NT to create opportunities for collaborative research; 
3.      local level engagementto encourage local knowledge and language authorities
to supervise development and use of their own collections of language
materials; and 
4.      classroom engagementto explore how the resources in the archive can be
used in classrooms.
 
We invite linguists and language workers interested in
exploring opportunities to engage with and enhance the materials in the Living
Archive in Stage 2.This work will include 
 
·         Identifying, sourcing,
gaining permission for, and uploading materials fromlanguages not currently
represented in the archive (published or unpublished works in NT languages by
Indigenous authors), and 
·         identifying and
developing opportunities for engaging academics and their students for  collaborative research work with language
authorities in communities.
 
The workshop will be held
in the ground floor theatrette (2.02) in the Sir Roland Wilson building on the
ANU Canberra campus from 9 am to 12pm on Friday 7 March, 2014. All welcome. The
event is free but please register for catering purposes. Registration will be from
the Australian Languages Workshop website http://chl.anu.edu.au/languages/alw2014.php. The event will coincide with thelaunch of the Living Archive website the previous evening.
 
For further information contact cathy.bow at cdu.edu.au
 
The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages Stage 2 is
funded through an ARC LIEF (Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities)
fund LE140100063, as a partnership between Charles Darwin University,
Australian National University, Northern Territory Department of Education,
Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education, the Northern Territory
Library and the NT Catholic Education Office. 
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