{"id":10249,"date":"2026-02-16T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=10249"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:19:38","slug":"the-new-paradisec-catalog-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-new-paradisec-catalog-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"The new PARADISEC catalog viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week we launched a new way of viewing the PARADISEC catalog<\/a>. We have been working towards this over the past two years, basing the approach to displaying our collections and items on the PILARS<\/a> principles developed by the Language Data Commons of Australia.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can now separate the original catalog from the view<\/em> of the items in the catalog, demonstrating that any collections that have a catalog of some kind, whether in a database or in a spreadsheet, can use a single viewing system (known as Oni<\/a>) and so can benefit from being in the ‘Commons’ by using shared coding effort for search and display of their metadata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does this work? Each item in PARADISEC has a file stored with it that contains all the metadata that is in the catalog for that item. It is written in a standard known as Research Object Crate <\/a>(RO-Crate) and this is what allows any item to be copied to a new location and to still maintain its catalog description. As discussed earlier (here<\/a>) we developed a method for exporting from our catalog in a format that can be used on Raspberry Pi computers for return to local communities. The new catalog offers a streamlined way of doing this, and of conforming to relevant standards so that any tools we develop can be shared by others who use RO-Crate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the next months we will be adding features to the new catalog viewer like: an Elan player that will play media and transcripts together; a full text search mechanism, so that all text in Elan files or other items can be searched, in addition to the present search of metadata; and an online transcription system for media, so that users can transcribe or summarise recordings in languages they know. Each of these functions will be available to any collection that uses RO-Crates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work on the new catalog was funded by the Australian Research Council grant “Modularised cultural heritage archives \u2013 future-proofing PARADISEC cultural heritage. (ARC LIEF grant LE220100010, 2022-<\/a>2<\/a>024<\/a>)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funding was also provided by the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) (DOI: 10.3565\/kq2v-9g52<\/a>) which is a co-investment partnership with the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) through the HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons. The ARDC is enabled by the Australian Government\u2019s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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