20 Jun 2009

Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
PARADISEC, c/o The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Self-description:
"PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) offers a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region, defined broadly to include Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. Our research group has developed models to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities, and conforms with emerging international standards for digital archiving. Our research group is composed of investigators from the four participating institutions [i.e. Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, New England, & ANU - ed.]

PARADISEC collaborates with other groups to promote good practice in field documentation and digital archiving of endangered languages:
Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD) [http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/thieberger/RNLD/RNLDmailing.html],
the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) [http://www.language-archives.org],
the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Network (DELAMAN) [http://www.delaman.org/] and the
Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data project (E-MELD) [http://www.emeld.org/index.cfm].

At September 2008 PARADISEC's collection contains 2051 hours of digital audio and video files on 3.65 TB of disk space. A catalogue of this material is available at the link given in the right hand frame of this page. 614 languages from 60 countries are represented in PARADISEC's collection."

Site contents:
* About Us;
* Services (Access Our Database, Make a Deposit, Downloads, Training Workshops, Commercial Services);
* Links (Archives and Archiving, Audio Preservation, Digitisation and Digital Links, Digital Image and Video Collections, Endangered Music and Languages, Linguistics Software Annotation and Dictionaries, Metadata, Pacific Languages and Resources, Software, XML);
* Contact Us;
* Administration;
* Sitemap;
* Search PARADISEC;
* PARADISEC Quick Links (PARADISEC NEWS - Winners of 2008 VERSI prize... , Recent PARADISEC publications, Ethnographic Eresearch (EthnoER), Transient Languages & Cultures Blog);
* How you can help;
* Basic metadata describing PARADISEC's collection;
* Internal catalogue records (Search/Browse fields: #Persistent identifier, #Item name, #Collector name, #Source Language, #Dialect, #Country, #Region / village, #Longitude, #Latitude);
* Privacy Policy.
URL http://paradisec.org.au
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/paradisec.org.au
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1000