Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, Sydney

Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, Sydney

• PARADISEC

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
• Indigenous
• International
• Universidade

We digitise and archive records of the many small languages of the world. We have worked to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities and conforms to international standards for digital archiving. While our original focus was the Asia-Pacific region, we now hold material from all over the world, and currently have over 1,000 languages represented in the collection.

PARADISEC is a consortium of three universities: the Universities of Sydney, the University of Melbourne, and the Australian National University. Operational functions are distributed across the participating campuses.

PARADISEC is directed by a Steering Committee of representatives from these three universities, with Dr Nick Thieberger as the PARADISEC Director, and Prof Linda Barwick as the Sydney Director.

At the University of Sydney PARADISEC is hosted by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, our University of Melbourne base is in the School of Languages and Linguistics, and at the Australian National University PARADISEC is hosted by the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

See http://catalog.paradisec.org.au.

We have also digitised the fieldnotes of Arthur Capell, Stephen A. Wurm and Calvin Roesler and these are publicly available through the website. See http://www.paradisec.org.au/collections/

We have distributed copies of recordings to the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, the University of New Caledonia, the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, the Solomon Islands National Museum and to Rapa Nui.

PARADISEC’s catalog can be searched freely with unrestricted access via the OLAC or the LINGUIST LIST gateway. Data in the PARADISEC collection should be cited at the item level using format given in our catalog’s ‘Cite as’ field, and we also include digital object identifiers (doi). See http://www.paradisec.org.au/collections/

Access conditions for files stored in our archive vary by Collection, and are specified in each Collection or Item in the catalog. Unless otherwise stated, the work in PARADISEC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The moral rights of the performers are asserted. See the website for further information.

Revised 28 March 2018

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Thematic area)
• Indigenous (Thematic area)
• Idioma (Thematic area)
• Social Organisations and Activities (Thematic area)