Celebrate #wdpd2026 with the #dpc and the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures!
Join Nick Thieberger and the #paradisec team to discover tools helping preserve at-risk language collections and make them accessible offline to communities across the Pacific.
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Join Nick Thieberger and the #paradisec team to discover tools helping preserve at-risk language collections and make them accessible offline to communities across the Pacific.
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November 3, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Celebrate #wdpd2026 with the #dpc and the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures!
Join Nick Thieberger and the #paradisec team to discover tools helping preserve at-risk language collections and make them accessible offline to communities across the Pacific.
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Join Nick Thieberger and the #paradisec team to discover tools helping preserve at-risk language collections and make them accessible offline to communities across the Pacific.
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Join Nick Thieberger and the #PARADISEC team on #WDPD2026 to discover tools helping preserve at-risk language collections and make them accessible offline to communities across the Pacific.
📅 Thursday 5 November, 02:00 UTC
Online, free and open to all. Find out more and register:
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📅 Thursday 5 November, 02:00 UTC
Online, free and open to all. Find out more and register:
buff.ly/rNVAZkJ
PARADISEC - New Tools for Preserving Community Language resources in the Pacific - Digital Preservation Coalition
Click here for your local time (10.00 – 11.00am Singapore/China / 12.00noon – 1.00pm AEST Brisbane / 1.00 – 2.00pm AEDT Melb/Canb/Syd / 3.00 – 4.00pm New Zealand)
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November 3, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Join Nick Thieberger and the #PARADISEC team on #WDPD2026 to discover tools helping preserve at-risk language collections and make them accessible offline to communities across the Pacific.
📅 Thursday 5 November, 02:00 UTC
Online, free and open to all. Find out more and register:
buff.ly/rNVAZkJ
📅 Thursday 5 November, 02:00 UTC
Online, free and open to all. Find out more and register:
buff.ly/rNVAZkJ
Still looking for a way to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day? As part of the celebration, WDS member @paradisec.bsky.social will share its work preserving community language collections and helping people access them offline.
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PARADISEC - New Tools for Preserving Community Language resources in the Pacific - Digital Preservation Coalition
Click here for your local time (10.00 – 11.00am Singapore/China / 12.00noon – 1.00pm AEST Brisbane / 1.00 – 2.00pm AEDT Melb/Canb/Syd / 3.00 – 4.00pm New Zealand)
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November 2, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Still looking for a way to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day? As part of the celebration, WDS member @paradisec.bsky.social will share its work preserving community language collections and helping people access them offline.
🔗 buff.ly/rNVAZkJ
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From PARADISEC: 150 cassette tapes caked in dirt were painstakingly cleaned, digitised and salvaged.
A real emotional rollercoaster featuring a very patient human and a robot hero: www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2026/08...
A real emotional rollercoaster featuring a very patient human and a robot hero: www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2026/08...
SG2: Adventures with tape
When the SG2 collection arrived at PARADISEC, it consisted of approximately 150 cassette tapes carried from Papua New Guinea to Australia in two duffel bags. They had been gathered through a commun…
www.paradisec.org.au
September 20, 2026 at 11:12 PM
From PARADISEC: 150 cassette tapes caked in dirt were painstakingly cleaned, digitised and salvaged.
A real emotional rollercoaster featuring a very patient human and a robot hero: www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2026/08...
A real emotional rollercoaster featuring a very patient human and a robot hero: www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2026/08...
New blog from Nick Thieberger describing ongoing research by PARADISEC and collaborators on ASR (speech-to-text) of Pacific languages to create tools for supporting communities and workers! www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/10...
Large language models for small languages
Of the 7,000 languages in the world today, most have little presence on the internet. What records there are in these languages are often religious translations from large languages and so, while b…
www.paradisec.org.au
October 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
New blog from Nick Thieberger describing ongoing research by PARADISEC and collaborators on ASR (speech-to-text) of Pacific languages to create tools for supporting communities and workers! www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/10...
PARADISEC and ELAR are excited to announce the third Language Documentation and Archiving conference, to take place in Berlin, Germany and online from 9-11 September 2026.
Abstract submission open now, until 1 March 2026.
More information at langdoc.org.
Abstract submission open now, until 1 March 2026.
More information at langdoc.org.
LD&A – Language Documentation & Archiving Conference
langdoc.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
PARADISEC and ELAR are excited to announce the third Language Documentation and Archiving conference, to take place in Berlin, Germany and online from 9-11 September 2026.
Abstract submission open now, until 1 March 2026.
More information at langdoc.org.
Abstract submission open now, until 1 March 2026.
More information at langdoc.org.
PARADISEC digitises Pacific music recordings dating back decades in more than 1300 languages. www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... via @ABCaustralia
Canberra singing group brings 'lost' Pacific music back to life - ABC Pacific
For the past 20 years, PARADISEC has digitised music recordings which date back decades and feature more than 1300 Pacific languages.
www.abc.net.au
October 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
PARADISEC digitises Pacific music recordings dating back decades in more than 1300 languages. www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... via @ABCaustralia
PARADISEC Director Nick Thieberger speaking in Paris at the UNESCO Language Technologies for All conference on “The importance of digital language & music archives for language & cultural continuity, an example from the Pacific & Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures”
February 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
PARADISEC Director Nick Thieberger speaking in Paris at the UNESCO Language Technologies for All conference on “The importance of digital language & music archives for language & cultural continuity, an example from the Pacific & Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures”
PARADISEC Director Nick Thieberger will present in the DPC webinar series, on 12 March. Registration link below 👇
www.dpconline.org/events/event...
www.dpconline.org/events/event...
Digital Preservation Masterclass: A Celebration of Good Practice, Innovation and Collaboration - Digital Preservation Coalition
www.dpconline.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
PARADISEC Director Nick Thieberger will present in the DPC webinar series, on 12 March. Registration link below 👇
www.dpconline.org/events/event...
www.dpconline.org/events/event...
The Tape Restorator: www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/01...
I'm incredibly fond of this lil tape robot built for PARADISEC. Something wonderfully 1970s technofuture about it.
So much language documentation still languishing on tape, we're entering a critical period for preserving these materials.
I'm incredibly fond of this lil tape robot built for PARADISEC. Something wonderfully 1970s technofuture about it.
So much language documentation still languishing on tape, we're entering a critical period for preserving these materials.
The Tape Restorator
We wrote about dried out cassette tapes in an earlier blog post, and the problem they create for playback, screeching as they try to move through the playback machine’s mechanism and ultimate…
www.paradisec.org.au
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The Tape Restorator: www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/01...
I'm incredibly fond of this lil tape robot built for PARADISEC. Something wonderfully 1970s technofuture about it.
So much language documentation still languishing on tape, we're entering a critical period for preserving these materials.
I'm incredibly fond of this lil tape robot built for PARADISEC. Something wonderfully 1970s technofuture about it.
So much language documentation still languishing on tape, we're entering a critical period for preserving these materials.
Spending the next few days at the Paradisec 'Research, Records and Responsibility' conference. Great range of talks coming up! (L)
November 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Spending the next few days at the Paradisec 'Research, Records and Responsibility' conference. Great range of talks coming up! (L)
Great to see so many lovely people at the #paradisec conf., including @StevenBird @living_archive @aidanbwilson & of course @paradisec (L)
November 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Great to see so many lovely people at the #paradisec conf., including @StevenBird @living_archive @aidanbwilson & of course @paradisec (L)
Linda Barwick: "10 web years is like a thousand real years" - #paradisec is an impressive on-going project!
November 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Linda Barwick: "10 web years is like a thousand real years" - #paradisec is an impressive on-going project!
Andrea Berez talking about building archiving into field methods curriculum at U Hawaii - making data accountable. #paradisec
November 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Andrea Berez talking about building archiving into field methods curriculum at U Hawaii - making data accountable. #paradisec
U of Hawaii linguistics department now makes archiving and resolvable citations a formal requirement of the PhD. Looks great! #Paradisec
November 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
U of Hawaii linguistics department now makes archiving and resolvable citations a formal requirement of the PhD. Looks great! #Paradisec
A scathing appraisal of ISO 639-3 language codes by Morey, Post & Friedman. #Paradisec
November 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
A scathing appraisal of ISO 639-3 language codes by Morey, Post & Friedman. #Paradisec
Learning about the Polish Sign Language corpus, and Polish Sign Language. Impressive project. (L) # paradisec
November 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Learning about the Polish Sign Language corpus, and Polish Sign Language. Impressive project. (L) # paradisec
David Nathan asking some tough questions on archives: are we really reaching out to communities with our archived data? # paradisec
November 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
David Nathan asking some tough questions on archives: are we really reaching out to communities with our archived data? # paradisec
This afternoon at the #paradisec conf we get to hear all about the work being done at @living_archive. Thousands of books being archived!
November 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
This afternoon at the #paradisec conf we get to hear all about the work being done at @living_archive. Thousands of books being archived!
Listening to Peter Withers talk about KinOath and getting all excited about getting my kin trees done. (L) #paradisec
November 4, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Listening to Peter Withers talk about KinOath and getting all excited about getting my kin trees done. (L) #paradisec
This afternoon at the #paradisec conference, @StevenBird updating us on the #Aikuma project. Pity @hanke isn't here! (L)
November 4, 2024 at 10:49 PM
This afternoon at the #paradisec conference, @StevenBird updating us on the #Aikuma project. Pity @hanke isn't here! (L)
I don't like talking about 'saving' languages, but I'm really excited we have saved these recordings of Yolmo: <a href="http://www.superlinguo.com/post/129736479641/when-i-was-in-nepal-in-december-i-was-given-20" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.superlinguo.com/post/129736479641/when-i-was-in-nepal-in-december-i-was-given-20 (L)
Yolmo speakers - AH1-014 -B
When I was in Nepal in December I was given 20 cassette of Yolmo recordings from the 1970s and 1980s. These recordings were made by Anne Marie Hari, who worked on the Yolmo language in the Melamchi and Helambu area for over 20 years, and included wordlists, songs stories and conversations. They were being held by SIL, who were looking for a way to digitise them.
Thanks to Paradisec these cassettes have now been made into a high-quality digital archive, which we are leaving open for the time being. These are probably the earliest known recordings of Yolmo language, and they’re in a very good state. It’s amazing to hear Anne Marie talking with people (and her Yolmo is far better than mine!). I’m hoping to find out more information about the recordings, and eventually have then transcribed and translated.
www.superlinguo.com
November 4, 2024 at 6:45 PM
I don't like talking about 'saving' languages, but I'm really excited we have saved these recordings of Yolmo: <a href="http://www.superlinguo.com/post/129736479641/when-i-was-in-nepal-in-december-i-was-given-20" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.superlinguo.com/post/129736479641/when-i-was-in-nepal-in-december-i-was-given-20 (L)
#lingwiki here is all about endangered language pages. Today I'm going through the Paradisec collection: <a href="http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/search" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/search (L)
Nabu - Collections
catalog.paradisec.org.au
November 4, 2024 at 6:26 PM
#lingwiki here is all about endangered language pages. Today I'm going through the Paradisec collection: <a href="http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/search" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/search (L)
They've been busy over at the @paradisecblog archives! And I've been working on some stuff to add - stay tuned! <a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2016/04/paradisec-activity-update-5/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2016/04/paradisec-activity-update-5/ (L)
PARADISEC activity update
It’s been a busy start to 2016 for PARADISEC. Nick Thieberger published an article about the race to preserve Pacific Language Records in The Conversation. New collections archived this year …
www.paradisec.org.au
November 4, 2024 at 4:51 PM
They've been busy over at the @paradisecblog archives! And I've been working on some stuff to add - stay tuned! <a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2016/04/paradisec-activity-update-5/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2016/04/paradisec-activity-update-5/ (L)
A month until I'm back from #fieldwork but you can already see metadata for what we've been recording at #paradisec <a href="http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/SUY1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/SUY1
Nabu - Kagate (Nepal)
catalog.paradisec.org.au
November 4, 2024 at 4:51 PM
A month until I'm back from #fieldwork but you can already see metadata for what we've been recording at #paradisec <a href="http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/SUY1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/SUY1