📣 Join our partner PARADISEC Australia & @ANU_CHL at a hands-on 'Field Recording and Safety Equipment Workshop' in Acton ACT, broken into 2 sessions: 1️⃣ 7 Nov, 9:30am – 12:30pm 2️⃣ 8 Nov, 9:30am – 12:30pm All enquiries to Dr Julia Colleen Miller. ✍️ Register here: chl.anu.edu.au/event/field-re…

Publication day for our new edited book!

🚨 REMINDER: Join our partner PARADISEC Australia & @ANU_CHL at a hands-on 'Field Recording and Safety Equipment Workshop' at ANU, broken into 2 sessions: 1️⃣ 7 Nov, 9:30am – 12:30pm 2️⃣ 8 Nov, 9:30am – 12:30pm All enquiries to Dr Julia Colleen Miller. ✍️ Register: chl.anu.edu.au/event/field-re…

Happy World Digital Preservation Day! Here is PARADISEC Director Nick Thieberger on the Digital Preservation Coalition blog DPC Chatter , on "The flexibility of the DIY archive" dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog…

📣 A new blog post is up on our website: 'Interview with Jane Simpson'. We spoke to Jane (Professor Emerita at ANU SLLL) about long-term storage of language data, the first in a series of interviews we are conducting on the topic. 🗞️ Read the post here: ldaca.edu.au/news/posts/jan…

📣ARDC Indigenous Data Governance Masterclass at Summer School 2025 📆3 Feb 📍State Library of Queensland Custodians of #IndigenousData + researchers from all fields are invited to learn about applying Indigenous Data Governance principles. ✍️Register now: ow.ly/5akz50TXKXY #IDgov #IDsov #CARE

The Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize is now officially open! The prize recognises the most outstanding PhD thesis by an AAPS student member working in the field of Pacific Studies. Details here: pacificstudies.org.au/news/phd-prize…

📼 Ever had an old cassette screech when you press play? PARADISEC Australia use an innovative machine to restore thousands of hours of precious audio from communities in Australia & the Pacific. Read CI Nick Thieberger writing for The Conversation. 👇 theconversation.com/how-were-recov…

PARADISEC’s Nick Thieberger on our new cassette tape lubricator

Nick Thieberger will present in the DPC webinar series, on 12 March. Registration link below 👇

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/2024-12-2…

The Insider Archivist: Collecting Music Recordings from East New Britain (ENB) (via PARADISEC) paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/03/t… #pacificislander

Edited by Nick Thieberger, Amanda Harris, Sally Treloyn and Myfany Turpin, "Keeping Time" is an essay collection examining Indigenous music practices, archiving and repatriation. Read more: bit.ly/3Xp8TG9

A reminder about a useful resource for learning about archiving language materials: archivingforthefuture.teachable.com/courses/test-p…

Happy 29th Birthday Internet Archive! On May 12, 1996, Brewster Kahle founded a non-profit organization called the Internet Archive. #InternetHistory

PARADISEC has won an Open Scholarship Award, sponsored by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and partners, for our contribution to making scholarly work more efficient, accessible, and usable by those within & beyond the academy etcl.uvic.ca/open-scholarsh…. Yay! 😊

New blog from PARADISEC technician Katie Bicevskis on fixing damaged old cassette tapes so they can be digitised! paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/05/s… #analog #audiophile #archives #digitization

Interview with our Director Nick Thieberger about his work with language and archiving over the years in Vanuatu