Comments from participants of the PARADISEC workshop: Researchers, Communities, Institutions and Sound Recordings, 30 Sep – 1 Oct, 2003

“Much-needed workshop (as evidenced by level of interest) – truly a uniquely valuable meeting. Excellent examples of collaborations with audio technicians and humanities, computing”. 

“An innovative and stimulating environment for launching PARADISEC!” 

“The conference is well organised and at the same time well represented by highly technical people.” 

“I had no idea so much archiving was being done by linguists. Great collaborative papers. The world’s your oyster!” 

“Superb – a type of meeting very much needed in the discipline(s) involved. Organisation very well done, top-level participants (from around the world), lecture topics/themes well thought-out. A meeting that brought up important topics, new developments, created new links – a meeting that will have many follow-ups” 

“Great papers, especially useful for understanding technology requirements of this community”. 

“Very good concept, content well chosen & suitably broad, organisation excellent”

“Great concept: combining perspectives of researchers and IT types is always productive for both”. 

“Great – an incredibly diverse set of contributions on virtually every angle. Very enjoyable.” 

“A nice mix of technical and conceptual papers. Fantastic organisation ….I learnt a lot of technical stuff of great value” 

“Excellent. Cross disciplinary nature was a good feature”

“Concept brilliant of bringing together practitioners and documentalists, etc. of Indigenous Material”

“Technical demonstrations of software, database structures and archiving possibilities were great. Seemed really international – got a great sense of co-operation and collaboration.”