PARADISEC Australia
@PARADISEC_Aus
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A digital archive of materials from endangered cultures from all over the world; over 1300 languages represented in our collections, and in excess of 250TB
Australia
Joined March 2017
🧐Help us find old tapes! We're seeking recordings of linguistic and cultural materials, to digitise them soon before the tapes deteriorate irreparably! #deadline2025 #archives #languagematters #indigenouslanguages
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Interview with our Director Nick Thieberger about his work with language and archiving over the years in Vanuatu
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New blog from PARADISEC technician Katie Bicevskis on fixing damaged old cassette tapes so they can be digitised! #analog #audiophile #archives #digitization
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RT @WebDesignMuseum: Happy 29th Birthday Internet Archive! . On May 12, 1996, Brewster Kahle founded a non-profit organization called the….
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PARADISEC has won an Open Scholarship Award, sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and partners, for our contribution to making scholarly work more efficient, accessible, and usable by those within & beyond the academy Yay! 😊.
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A reminder about a useful resource for learning about archiving language materials:.
archivingforthefuture.teachable.com
Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections
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RT @SydneyUniPress: Edited by Nick Thieberger, Amanda Harris, Sally Treloyn and Myfany Turpin, "Keeping Time" is an essay collection examin….
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The Insider Archivist: Collecting Music Recordings from East New Britain (ENB) (via @paradisecblog) #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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RT @LDaCA_Program: New exhibition 'Wangka Walytja' celebrates the Papunya Literature Production Centre's invaluable collection of Pintupi-L….
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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PARADISEC's Nick Thieberger in Paris at the UNESCO Language Technologies for All conference on “The importance of digital language & music archives for language & cultural continuity, an example from the Pacific & Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures”
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Nick Thieberger will present in the DPC webinar series, on 12 March. Registration link below 👇.
🎓Discover award-winning #digitalpreservation excellence! Join #DPC's free Masterclass series this March:. Episode 1 (Mar 11, 2pm UTC): NHS Research Records & Dutch Digital Skills.Episode 2 (Mar 12, 2pm AEDT): First Nations Heritage & PARADISEC.Register at
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PARADISEC’s Nick Thieberger on our new cassette tape lubricator.
A sophisticated machine called the LM-3032 Tape Restorator is helping give new life to decaying, decades-old cassettes. @unimelb
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RT @LDaCA_Program: 📼 Ever had an old cassette screech when you press play? @PARADISEC_Aus use an innovative machine to restore thousands of….
theconversation.com
A sophisticated machine called the LM-3032 Tape Restorator is helping give new life to decaying, decades-old cassettes.
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RT @ARDC_AU: 📣ARDC Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass at Summer School 2025.📆3 Feb.📍@slqld.Custodians of #IndigenousData + researchers….
eventbrite.com.au
Custodians of Indigenous data and researchers in any discipline are invited to learn about applying Indigenous data governance principles
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RT @AAPSPacific: The Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize is now officially open! The prize recognises the most outstanding PhD thesis by an AAPS….
pacificstudies.org.au
The 2025 Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize opens in January The Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) is pleased to call for nominations for the AAPS Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize. Named...
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RT @LDaCA_Program: 📣 A new blog post is up on our website: 'Interview with Jane Simpson'. We spoke to Jane (Professor Emerita at @ANUslll)….
ldaca.edu.au
Interview with Jane Simpson.
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Happy World Digital Preservation Day! Here is PARADISEC Director Nick Thieberger on the Digital Preservation Coalition blog @dpc_chat , on "The flexibility of the DIY archive"
dpconline.org
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RT @LDaCA_Program: 🚨 REMINDER: Join our partner @PARADISEC_Aus & @ANU_CHL at a hands-on 'Field Recording and Safety Equipment Workshop' at….
chl.anu.edu.au
Join CHL and PARADISEC for this two-part workshop, held over two days: Part 1: 9:30–12:30 on Thursday, 7 November Part 2: 9:30–12:30 on Friday, 8 November Note: This is one workshop, broken into...
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RT @LDaCA_Program: 📣 Join our partner @PARADISEC_Aus & @ANU_CHL at a hands-on 'Field Recording and Safety Equipment Workshop' in Acton ACT,….
chl.anu.edu.au
Join CHL and PARADISEC for this two-part workshop, held over two days: Part 1: 9:30–12:30 on Thursday, 7 November Part 2: 9:30–12:30 on Friday, 8 November Note: This is one workshop, broken into...
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