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📢 Indigenous language researchers & workers: EOIs open for @QSArchives' First Nations Languages Research Workshop (13–16 May). Explore QLD's largest archival collection with support from QSA staff. Financial support available.
Apply by 21 March: app.vision6.com.au/forms/s/X…
💡 #SydneyCorpusLab affiliate Helen Caple has written a blog post on combining transitivity analysis with semantic tagging in her work on a historical newspaper, using the ATAP tagger.
🔗Read more: sydneycorpuslab.com/triangul…
🔗Test out the semantic tagger: github.com/Australian-Text-A…
ALT ATAP's semantic tagger. This image is a screenshot of the GitHub page where you can access and use the tagger.
⚖️ For #EYAJustice, we unearthed an 1890 article by writer & suffragist Louisa Lawson in COOEE. She writes that an electoral bill allowing votes for women "bring[s] us as near to pure justice and absolute freedom as any human law has yet approached."
🔗 data.ldaca.edu.au/object?id=…
ALT 📷 'That nonsensical idea' (June 5 1890), National Library of Australia (Trove) Front page of The Dawn journal (vol 3, no 2; Sydney June 5, 1890). The title of the article is 'That nonsensical idea'. The text that follows can be found on the LDaCA portal in the link.
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The Insider Archivist: Collecting Music Recordings from East New Britain (ENB) (via @paradisecblog) paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/0… #pacificislander
📣 Our partners at @AARNet are starting a monthly online drop-in session to discuss research challenges & solutions using Globus and FileSender.
🔗 aarnet.edu.au/the-data-mover…
Join the first session on 21 March 1:00pm AEDT. All levels of expertise welcome!
ALT Infographic on blue background, which says 'The data movers lab'. Underneath this are the logos of AARNet, Globus and FileSender.
⌛ How did you handle your old data on #OldStuffDay? LDaCA can help you manage your research data and prepare it for onboarding to the LDaCA portal.
🔗 Learn more: ldaca.edu.au/resources/ldaca…
📷 Office workers demonstrate new style of office filing system, Mitchell Library, SLNSW
ALT A black and white photograph of 5 office workers in c. 1930, with filing cabinets behind them. The workers are sorting through different files.
The notebook ingests zip files containing images, returns an HTML file & provides some basic visualisations of the dataset including nearest neighbour mapping (pictured below).
🔗 Experiment here: github.com/Language-Research…
📊 At this week's demo meeting, Research Analytics Lead @samuel_hames demonstrated a new Jupyter notebook for exploring image datasets developed with @DGTL_CulturesUQ and Summer Research Experience student Jasper Chong.
New exhibition 'Wangka Walytja' celebrates the Papunya Literature Production Centre's invaluable collection of Pintupi-Luritja language materials.
Wangka Walytja means ‘our language, our culture’ in Pintupi-Luritja.
🔗 Read the story on ABC: abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/w…
3️⃣ Australian oral histories projects
Last year, we shared 3 examples of migrant oral history projects which present significant oral history collections in unique & engaging digital ways.
🔗 Visit our post: xitter.cf/LDaCA_Program/status/1…
🌐 Continuing our oral history theme on #InternationalMigrantsDay, we're sharing 3 amazing oral history projects that amplify the voices of migrant communities.
1️⃣ 'Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia (OMAA)'.
🔗 omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
ALT A black and white photograph depicting a man in a pinstripe suit looking on as two children write in Chinese on a blackboard. 'Adults and children at Chinese lessons (January 1945)', Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Accessed through the OMAA Archive.
2️⃣ Yarrabil Bula: First Nations Songs
LDaCA Program Manager @Rob_PS_McLellan recently spoke on a panel for the launch of Yarrabil Bula: First Nations Songs. Yarrabil shares children's songs composed by First Nations musicians in their own languages.
🔗 abc.net.au/about/media-centr…
1️⃣ Tjitjiku Tjukurpa
This project focused on Pitjantjatjara & Yankunytjatjara language & cultural maintenance in the APY Lands. The project involved an 8-day journey with Anangu young people & cultural custodians tracking the Seven Sisters Songline.
🔗 tjitjikuproject.com.au/
🌐 Friday was #InternationalMotherLanguageDay!
In this thread we're highlighting projects that foster connection with mother languages. The resources shared are underpinned by rich & complex data, which should be safeguarded for future generations.
ALT Yarrabil Bula: First Nations Songs. Image by First Languages Australia and ABC Education.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services & Collections Team at UQ Library have recently audited the collection to improve discoverability and access.
🔗 Read about UQ Library's work here: buff.ly/40a75lH
Caroline Kelly migrated to Australia from England in the 1920s. She later enrolled in a Diploma in Anthropology at @Sydney_Uni & conducted fieldwork at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in 1934.
Fryer Library acquired her anthropological papers in 2010.
🌐 For World Anthropology Day we're sharing the story of the Caroline Kelly collection, held at Fryer Library (@UQ_Library). The collection contains significant language knowledge for Indigenous communities of QLD & NSW.
🔗 Access the collection: buff.ly/3CdcNex
CI Nick Thieberger is presenting at LT4All 2025 on digital language & music archives for language and cultural continuity, with an example from @PARADISEC_Aus.
📆 24 February 5:30pm (CET)
📍 Online
✍️ Register for online participation: lt4all2025.eu/online-registr…
🚨 The EOI deadline for our 2025 Graduate Digital Research Program has been extended to February 19!
✍️ Apply now: forms.gle/2SubrSQKFc5NU3xa9
🔗 Read about the 2024 program: ldaca.edu.au/news/posts/gdrf…
📷 GDRF 2023 Fellows with mentors Sam Hames and Simon Musgrave.
🚨 REMINDER: Join @samuel_hames and @SimonMusgrave1 for a Hansard workshop hosted by @MDAP_Unimelb.
📆 20 February 2025 12:30pm - 4:30pm
📍 Naarm/Melbourne
Unlock the potential of parliamentary transcripts in your research!
✍️ Register: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/eve…
