TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a unique archive of Aboriginal languages
T2 - A collaborative project
AU - Bow, Catherine
AU - Mamtora, Jayshree
PY - 2017/4/3
Y1 - 2017/4/3
N2 - Charles Darwin University Library is directly helping to sustain and preserve Aboriginal language and cultural materials that encounter many hurdles for their long-term survival. The library is supporting an ARC-funded project known as the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages, by providing a repository, web application, digitisation programme and professional advice. The collaboration between the library and research team addressed a number of challenges in relation to appropriate ways to represent complex and variable metadata, widely varying content from diverse sources and in various conditions, and in making these fragile and endangered materials accessible to a global audience. The open access archive now includes thousands of items in dozens of Northern Territory Indigenous languages, providing a sustainable repository for researchers and allowing Indigenous communities to share their languages, histories, knowledge and practices around the world. The project serves as a rich case study demonstrating how academic libraries can work with researchers to support the archiving of cultural heritage.
AB - Charles Darwin University Library is directly helping to sustain and preserve Aboriginal language and cultural materials that encounter many hurdles for their long-term survival. The library is supporting an ARC-funded project known as the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages, by providing a repository, web application, digitisation programme and professional advice. The collaboration between the library and research team addressed a number of challenges in relation to appropriate ways to represent complex and variable metadata, widely varying content from diverse sources and in various conditions, and in making these fragile and endangered materials accessible to a global audience. The open access archive now includes thousands of items in dozens of Northern Territory Indigenous languages, providing a sustainable repository for researchers and allowing Indigenous communities to share their languages, histories, knowledge and practices around the world. The project serves as a rich case study demonstrating how academic libraries can work with researchers to support the archiving of cultural heritage.
KW - Charles Darwin University
KW - Digital archives
KW - Indigenous language materials
KW - Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages
KW - Northern Territory
UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00049670.2017.1282845
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028677781&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00049670.2017.1282845
DO - 10.1080/00049670.2017.1282845
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028677781
SN - 2475-0158
VL - 66
SP - 28
EP - 41
JO - Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
JF - Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
IS - 1
ER -