Recall that we have been developing a way of returning materials from the PARADISEC collection to source communities using the Raspberry Pi (see the earlier posts here and here ) This work is predicated on our catalog writing a text file into an item’s directory, a text file that contains all the information in the … Read more
Some highlights from the second half of 2023: * We celebrated our 20th anniversary year with wonderful events at Verge Gallery (University of Sydney), in April, and then in November at University of Melbourne. For display at the parties, Julia Miller put together a great 10-minute showreel of video from the archive, it’s on Youtube … Read more
The PNG Peroveta Singers of Canberra Jodie Kell and Steven Gagau PARADISEC in collaboration with PNG Peroveta Singers of Canberra and Holy Cross Anglican Church & St Margaret’s Uniting Church held a launch event of Toksave Podcast episodes 13 & 14. The launch was well attended by about 50 people including families, friends, colleagues & … Read more
An article published in the internal University of Sydney staff news by Melanie Crook on 20 November 2023 (reposted with permission) In this limited series we speak to University of Sydney colleagues who are making a positive impact in regional communities. Associate Professor Myfany Turpin, Jodie Kell and Dr Georgia Curran share a commitment to preserving … Read more
Steven Gagau spoke with Michael Chow from the ABC Pacific Radio show Nesia Daily Nesia Daily provides news and entertainment from around the Pacific on the ABC Pacific radio. The show focuses on Pacific Island people doing interesting and inspiring things both in the Pacific and Australia. In this episode Michael Chow interviews Steven Gagau … Read more
Lachlan Thompson is currently working as an intern at PARADISEC through the Aurora Internship Program. He recently completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Arts at UNSW and is hoping to study again next year. As an intern from the Aurora Program, I was unsure if my skill set would fit with PARADISEC. I don’t … Read more
Hello Pacific Archive enthusiasts! As always, it’s been a busy few months since our last update here on the ELAC blog; this our first update since we passed the mark of 200TB (now 203TB) in the archive, with 689 Collections. It only seems like a short while ago that we celebrated the 100TB milestone with … Read more
Congratulations to Katie Bicevskis who presented her PhD completion talk last Friday. The PhD thesis is a grammar of Marri Ngarr, an Indigenous language from the Northern Territory, one of what are known as the Daly languages (https://dalylanguages.org/view_language.php?id=10). It has few speakers today, as most Marri Ngarr people now speak Murrinhpatha as a first language. … Read more
I’ve been asked about getting audio of headwords into dictionaries a few times, so here’s a summary of how it can be done. The focus here is on getting individual audio files named as per the headword, so that they can be linked automatically in an online application. Some of this is a recap in … Read more
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