Research, records and responsibility ten years of PARADISEC

The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) has been on the cutting edge of digital archiving, building a significant historical collection and community of practice engaged in the preservation and accessibility of research materials. Over the ten years of...

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Main Authors: Harris, Amanda, Thieberger, Nick, Barwick, Linda
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Sydney Sydney University Press 2015
Edition:1
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ISBN:174332443X, 9781743324431
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter Table of Contents PARADISEC: 1: Through the lens of performance and performativity: 2: Reproducible research in descriptive linguistics: 3: On the reach of digital language archives 4: KinOath Kinship Archiver: 5: Shoehorning complex metadata in the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages 6: Reviewing, reconstructing and reinterpreting ethnographic data on musical instruments in archives and museums 7: Repatriating childhood: 8: Repatriation and innovation in and out of the field: 9: The Western Australian New Music Archive: About the contributors Index
  • Representations of Venda childhoods -- Repatriating Venda childhood -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Works cited -- Repatriation and innovation in and out of the field: the impact of legacy recordings on endangered dance-song traditions and ethnomusicological research -- Junba legacies -- Legacies of Junba research, 1938-2002 -- The Junba Project -- Recordings as a conduit to ancestors and place -- Recordings and teaching/learning -- Recordings as a conduit to wellbeing -- Waking up dance-songs and strengthening the tradition -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Works cited -- Report on the establishment of a new archive -- The Western Australian New Music Archive: performing as remembering -- A curated collection -- A community of practice -- A performing archive -- Digitisation and digital preservation -- Early communications of the archive -- Intellectual property and ownership -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- About the contributors -- Index
  • Kin type strings and diagram types -- Kin type strings -- Freeform diagrams -- Project diagrams -- Kin terms diagrams -- Searching data in KinOath -- Kin type string queries -- Search panel -- Export, import, plugins and interoperability -- Interoperability -- Importing updates -- Plugins -- Statistical analysis -- Interoperability and archiving -- Links to external resources -- Utilising external links -- Visualisation and graphics -- Graphics format -- Custom symbols -- Conclusion and future directions -- Works cited -- Appendix A: Example file imported to produce Figure 24 -- Appendix B: Example file imported to produce the first part of Figure 22 -- Appendix C: Example file imported after the file in Appendix B to produce the second part of Figure 22 -- Shoehorning complex metadata in the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages -- Naming/identification -- Languages -- Places -- People -- Titles -- Categorisation -- Controlled vocabularies -- Grouping into communities -- Related items -- Inclusion and exclusion -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Reviewing, reconstructing and reinterpreting ethnographic data on musical instruments in archives and museums -- Ethnographic information on musical instruments -- John Blacking and musical instrument study -- Sociality of musical instruments -- Musical instrument makers, agency and action -- Ecological data and asset protection -- Linking sounds and musical instruments -- Collaborative documentation on musical instruments -- Conclusion: animating archives and museum collections, making connections -- Works cited -- Communities and the archive -- Repatriating childhood: issues in the ethical return of Venda children's musical materials from the archival collection of John Blacking -- Research with children and young people -- John Blacking and Venda materials -- Blacking and the Callaway Centre, UWA
  • Intro -- Research, Records and Responsibility -- Contents -- PARADISEC: its history and future -- What is in the PARADISEC repository? -- Technicalities -- Research uses of PARADISEC -- Community access to PARADISEC -- Transcription -- Citing primary research records -- Recognition -- About this volume -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Archiving as research -- Through the lens of performance and performativity: reframing the research quality and impact of ethnographic digital research archives -- Performance and performativity -- Reframing content: cultural performative findings -- Reframing identity -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Reproducible research in descriptive linguistics: integrating archiving and citation into the postgraduate curriculum at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa -- On valuing reproducibility in science and linguistics -- Reproducible research in language documentation and description -- Practices in descriptive linguistics -- Teaching postgraduate students to be more scientific -- Language documentation at UHM -- Recent changes to our requirements -- Frequently asked questions -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- On the reach of digital language archives -- The ten components of reach -- 1. Acquisition -- 2. Audiences -- 3. Discovery -- 4. Delivery -- 5. Access management -- 6. Information accessibility -- 7. Promotion -- 8. Communication ecology -- 9. Feedback channels -- 10. Temporal reach -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Works cited -- Enriching the archive -- KinOath Kinship Archiver: genealogical and social relations -- Background -- Initial development -- Intended users -- Relevance of kinship data -- Existing applications -- Data structure and data entry -- KinOath, kinship and social relations -- Underlying technology -- Custom data fields -- Custom relation types -- Merging and separating entities