{"id":6515,"date":"2012-03-12T11:07:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T00:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=6515"},"modified":"2012-03-25T06:49:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T19:49:44","slug":"retrofitting-a-collection-id-rather-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2012\/03\/retrofitting-a-collection-id-rather-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrofitting a collection? I&#8217;d rather not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a visit from a student wanting to deposit a collection of recordings made in the course of PhD fieldwork in the PARADISEC archive. It is a great shame that they are only just now thinking about how to deposit this material, as it will need considerable work to make it archivable. If they had sought advice <b>before<\/b> doing all of the research (or looked at the PARADISEC page <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/deposit.html\">&#8216;Depositing with PARADISEC&#8217;<\/a>, or looked at the RNLD pages, e.g, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnld.org\/node\/40\">http:\/\/www.rnld.org\/node\/40<\/a>) it would have been so much easier for all of us. Why?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They used a Sony dictaphone recorder, which is very low quality and records in a proprietary format (.msv) via an internal and rather poor microphone. These files need to be converted using Sony software (on a PC only) and will never be as good as they would have been if recorded on the normally recommended equipment. They transcribed the recordings in Microsoft Word documents that have no time-alignment so can&#8217;t resolve back to the recordings for citation of example sentences. These too will need to be converted out of the Microsoft format into rtf, pdf or text format. There was no naming convention established so now all files need to be renamed. There is no catalog of the collection in any form, so that needs to be created, not something they really want to do while writing up a PhD dissertation. <\/p>\n<p>So, if you are in this situation or are supervising students in this situation, please make sure they have thought about the standards they should adopt <b>before<\/b> they start their research!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a visit from a student wanting to deposit a collection of recordings made in the course of PhD fieldwork in the PARADISEC archive. It is a great shame that they are only just now thinking about how to deposit this material, as it will need considerable work to make it archivable. If &#8230; <a title=\"Retrofitting a collection? 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