Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures

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Progress report on

• Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources
  in Endangered Cultures

Linda Barwick, University of Sydney Researchers,
Communities, Institutions and Sound Recordings,
1/10/2003
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PARADISEC Project Goals

• Primary goalDigital archiving of endangered
  recorded field material from the region around
  Australia

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PARADISEC goals (continued)

• Exploit potential of digital systems to build
  collaborative cross-institutional resource
• Develop and implement electronic management of
  digital research archive
• Create linkages between Australian research
  institutions, national archival institutions,
  stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region, and
  international bodies to ensure future viability
  of the resource

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Preservation - principles

• Conform to international best practice
• Use standard digital archival formats
• Open source software and multi-purposing
• Plan for user communities

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Metadata - database design

• For description, assessment, rights, access
• Filemaker Pro while in development
• Move to MySQL/PHP when stable
• Created and managed online in shared server space
• Public access planned to database but not to
  recordings
• Point of access to collection

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Rights

• Depositor and user agreement forms online
• Rights information embedded in the processing
  system for eventual automated access or
  restriction of access
• Trial password access currently implemented on
  shared database and store files

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Access (audio online)

• Download whole files from data store (e.g. for
  authorised community use)
• Streaming MP3 (browsing)
• Audition section of file (planned 2004)
• Transcript, dictionaries, images etc as point of
  entry (planned 2004)

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Training Resources

• Demand for practical workshops for researchers
  and communities
• Researcher training to archive in everyday
  practice not just as end point
• Website as gateway for online resources

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PARADISEC Implementation

• Current funding from Australian Research
  Councils LIEF programme (1 year) and from
  participant institutions (Usyd, Melbourne, ANU)
• Steering Committee made up of representatives of
  participant institutions
• Three staff admin officer and audio officer
  (Sydney), project manager (Melbourne)

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PARADISEC in 2003
metadata/ database design (Melbourne)
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Progress report September 2003

• Memorandum of understanding signed between
  participating institutions (USyd, UMelb, ANU)
• Sydney unit operational from April 2003
• Quadriga system ingesting cassette reel-to-reel
• Ingestion, archiving and backup systems proven
• Preliminary website online (www.paradisec.org.au)
• PARADISEC Metadata set, revision 3 published
• Depositor information and forms developed
• Online catalogue developed, and in use for daily
  administration of the project

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Progress report (cont)

• 1292 assessed records, covering approx. 150
  regional languages from 14 countries
• (Australia, Burma, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Laos,
  Malaysia, Micronesia, New Zealand, Papua New
  Guinea, Singapore, Taiwan, Vanuatu, Vietnam)
• 274 hours ingested and online via password, APAC
  store account - on target for 500 hours (1
  terabyte) in first year
• Metadata quality control via registration with
  Open Language Archive Community (6/03) and OAI
• First collections returned to depositors (CD and
  originals)
• Participant in discussions for establishing
  international Digital Endangered Languages
  Archives Network

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Collections (online via password)

• Corris
• Crowther
• Donohue
• Dutton
• Foley
• Gardner
• Laycock
• Margetts

• McElhanon
• Rumsey
• San Roque
• Thieberger
• Voorhoeve

complete or partial collection processed to
30/9/03
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Collections in the queue (1)

• Austin
• Brennan
• Durie
• Eades
• Elkin
• Falk
• Flora
• Goldsworthy

• Horne
• Hurworth
• Hyslop
• Jacq
• Kartomi
• Kornhauser
• Laade
• Low

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Collections in the queue (2)

• Maclean
• Marmion
• Marshall
• McIntyre
• McQueen
• Moore
• A. Moyle
• Paliwala
• Priestley

• Pugh-Kitingan
• Samson
• Shannon
• Turner
• Wurm
• unknown 1 (Vietnam)
• unknown 2 (NZ)

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Plans for 2004

• Find ongoing programme funding
• Develop as national research facility
• Technical development
• Ingestion from born-digital audio media (DAT, CD,
  MD, Flash-RAM ...)
• Participant entry of metadata and annotations
• Web-based audio delivery tool to allow access via
  transcripts
• Trial linkage between images of fieldnotes and
  relevant audio
• Decide what to do about video!

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Linkages

• Support and advice from ...
• ANU Internet Futures, APAC, Grangenet
• ScreenSound
• National Library
• AIATSIS
• Involvement with ...
• EMELD (Electronic Metastructures for Endangered
  Languages Data)
• DELAN (Digital Endangered Languages Archives
  Network)
• Regional cultural organisations

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Steering Committee 2003

• Steven Bird, Computer Science, Melbourne
• Stuart Hungerford, ANU Internet Futures
• John Bowden, RSPAS Linguistics, ANU
• Ewan Maidment, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, ANU

• Linda Barwick (Director), Music, Sydney
• Jane Simpson, Linguistics, Sydney
• Allan Marett, Music, Sydney
• Nick Evans, Linguistics, Melbourne

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PARADISEC Staff 2003

• Project Manager (Nick Thieberger, Melbourne)
• Audio Preservation (Frank Davey, Sydney)
• Project Administration (Amanda Harris, Sydney)

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Contacts

• www.paradisec.org.au
• Director (Sydney unit)
• lb_at_paradisec.org.au
• Project manager (Melbourne)
• nickt_at_paradisec.org.au