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The University of Queensland
Joined September 2021
📢 Indigenous language researchers & workers: EOIs open for @QSArchives' First Nations Languages Research Workshop (13–16 May). Explore QLD's largest archival collection with support from QSA staff. Financial support available. Apply by 21 March:
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💡 #SydneyCorpusLab affiliate Helen Caple has written a blog post on combining transitivity analysis with semantic tagging in her work on a historical newspaper, using the ATAP tagger. 🔗Read more: https://t.co/ifiKVHsQj7 🔗Test out the semantic tagger: https://t.co/eT7ynthDNm
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⚖️ For #EYAJustice, we unearthed an 1890 article by writer & suffragist Louisa Lawson in COOEE. She writes that an electoral bill allowing votes for women "bring[s] us as near to pure justice and absolute freedom as any human law has yet approached." 🔗 https://t.co/r5BcqagHpx
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The Insider Archivist: Collecting Music Recordings from East New Britain (ENB) (via @paradisecblog) https://t.co/PQL0ZKz8Z7
#pacificislander
paradisec.org.au
In 2024, I initiated the “ENB Digitisation and Preservation Project” aiming to collect old analogue tape recordings from my community in East New Britain in Papua New Guinea. As a staff…
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📣 Our partners at @AARNet are starting a monthly online drop-in session to discuss research challenges & solutions using Globus and FileSender. 🔗 https://t.co/O5Oy3oBUqS Join the first session on 21 March 1:00pm AEDT. All levels of expertise welcome!
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⌛ How did you handle your old data on #OldStuffDay? LDaCA can help you manage your research data and prepare it for onboarding to the LDaCA portal. 🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/cKxf2MGvCt 📷 Office workers demonstrate new style of office filing system, Mitchell Library, SLNSW
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The notebook ingests zip files containing images, returns an HTML file & provides some basic visualisations of the dataset including nearest neighbour mapping (pictured below). 🔗 Experiment here: https://t.co/lbc8E2puff
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📊 At this week's demo meeting, Research Analytics Lead @samuel_hames demonstrated a new Jupyter notebook for exploring image datasets developed with @DGTL_CulturesUQ and Summer Research Experience student Jasper Chong.
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New exhibition 'Wangka Walytja' celebrates the Papunya Literature Production Centre's invaluable collection of Pintupi-Luritja language materials. Wangka Walytja means ‘our language, our culture’ in Pintupi-Luritja. 🔗 Read the story on ABC:
abc.net.au
A collection of long-lost stories and illustrations have been celebrated in the Wangka Walytja exhibition in Papunya, paying tribute to the radical bilingual literature movement of the 1970s.
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3️⃣ Australian oral histories projects Last year, we shared 3 examples of migrant oral history projects which present significant oral history collections in unique & engaging digital ways. 🔗 Visit our post:
🌐 Continuing our oral history theme on #InternationalMigrantsDay, we're sharing 3 amazing oral history projects that amplify the voices of migrant communities. 1️⃣ 'Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia (OMAA)'. 🔗 https://t.co/RHHw6OPDHX
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2️⃣ Yarrabil Bula: First Nations Songs LDaCA Program Manager @Rob_PS_McLellan recently spoke on a panel for the launch of Yarrabil Bula: First Nations Songs. Yarrabil shares children's songs composed by First Nations musicians in their own languages. 🔗
abc.net.au
A collaboration between First Languages Australia and ABC Education, is helping to revitalise and celebrate First Nations languages through the power of song.
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1️⃣ Tjitjiku Tjukurpa This project focused on Pitjantjatjara & Yankunytjatjara language & cultural maintenance in the APY Lands. The project involved an 8-day journey with Anangu young people & cultural custodians tracking the Seven Sisters Songline. 🔗
tjitjikuproject.com.au
Tjitjiku Tjukurpa Kungkarankalpa - Come join us on the journey.
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🌐 Friday was #InternationalMotherLanguageDay! In this thread we're highlighting projects that foster connection with mother languages. The resources shared are underpinned by rich & complex data, which should be safeguarded for future generations.
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@UQ_Library @Sydney_Uni The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services & Collections Team at UQ Library have recently audited the collection to improve discoverability and access. 🔗 Read about UQ Library's work here:
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@UQ_Library Caroline Kelly migrated to Australia from England in the 1920s. She later enrolled in a Diploma in Anthropology at @Sydney_Uni & conducted fieldwork at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in 1934. Fryer Library acquired her anthropological papers in 2010.
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🌐 For World Anthropology Day we're sharing the story of the Caroline Kelly collection, held at Fryer Library (@UQ_Library). The collection contains significant language knowledge for Indigenous communities of QLD & NSW. 🔗 Access the collection:
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CI Nick Thieberger is presenting at LT4All 2025 on digital language & music archives for language and cultural continuity, with an example from @PARADISEC_Aus. 📆 24 February 5:30pm (CET) 📍 Online ✍️ Register for online participation:
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🚨 The EOI deadline for our 2025 Graduate Digital Research Program has been extended to February 19! ✍️ Apply now: https://t.co/s2SiqItX0S 🔗 Read about the 2024 program: https://t.co/yUpAaabdcR 📷 GDRF 2023 Fellows with mentors Sam Hames and Simon Musgrave.
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🚨 REMINDER: Join @samuel_hames and @SimonMusgrave1 for a Hansard workshop hosted by @MDAP_Unimelb. 📆 20 February 2025 12:30pm - 4:30pm 📍 Naarm/Melbourne Unlock the potential of parliamentary transcripts in your research! ✍️ Register:
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au
Parliamentary bodies around the world have been publishing transcriptions of their proceedings for decades or even centuries. These transcriptions ...
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Thu 20 Feb! Unlock the potential of parliamentary transcripts for humanities, arts and social sciences. Learn to access, analyse, and interpret texts, and gain hands-on experience with text data – no coding experience needed. Hosted by @LDaCA_Program
https://t.co/u8B7PhJnOq
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