ANDS UQ Major Open Data Collections

Research Project

Full description This ANDS-funded project was a collaboration between the UQ Library, staff from the UQ School of Languages and Cultures (Ilana Mushin and Erich Round) and the State Library of Queensland. It included both funded and in-kind contributions from stakeholders. It involved a number of stages: 1. To digitise reel-to-reel tape recordings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages collected for the Queensland Speech Survey, which was conducted by Elwyn Henry Flint as part of his long-term linguistics research in the 1960s. 2. To translate the recordings of Aboriginal words, phrases and sentences into English and provide transcripts of those recordings. 3. To develop detailed annotations for each recording and link those annotations to the recordings. 4. To build a user-friendly digital platform to provide public access to, and search capabilities for the recordings and transcripts, and to support their discoverability by researchers and the public alike. 5. To consult with Indigenous communities and Indigenous Knowledge Networks around Queensland to develop guidelines and protocols about the publication and re-use of the material. This project is supported by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program.