New blog from Nick Thieberger describing ongoing research by PARADISEC and collaborators on ASR (speech-to-text) of Pacific languages to create tools for supporting communities and workers! www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/10...

Large language models for small languages

Of the 7,000 languages in the world today, most have little presence on the internet. What records there are in these languages are often religious translations from large languages and so, while b…

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PARADISEC and ELAR are excited to announce the third Language Documentation and Archiving conference, to take place in Berlin, Germany and online from 9-11 September 2026. Abstract submission open now, until 1 March 2026. More information at langdoc.org.

PARADISEC digitises Pacific music recordings dating back decades in more than 1300 languages. www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... via @ABCaustralia

Canberra singing group brings 'lost' Pacific music back to life - ABC Pacific

For the past 20 years, PARADISEC has digitised music recordings which date back decades and feature more than 1300 Pacific languages.

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Our new article on songs that hold histories & people from the diaspora interacting with archives today: with Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau and Jodie Kell 'Archived sound and creative engagements with PNG cultural heritage in Australia' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @paradisec.bsky.social

Archived sound and creative engagements with Papua New Guinean cultural heritage in Australia

For people in the region of Oceania and Indigenous Australia, histories have long been held in oral and embodied forms. Pacific historians have pointed to the ‘vast store of lived and relived exper...

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

Introduction

Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections

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The Insider Archivist: Collecting Music Recordings from East New Britain, PNG (via @paradisecblog) www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/03...

The Insider Archivist: Collecting Music Recordings from East New Britain (ENB)

In 2024, I initiated the “ENB Digitisation and Preservation Project” aiming to collect old analogue tape recordings from my community in East New Britain in Papua New Guinea. As a staff…

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PARADISEC Director Nick Thieberger speaking in Paris at the UNESCO Language Technologies for All conference on “The importance of digital language & music archives for language & cultural continuity, an example from the Pacific & Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures”

AI doesn't have to involve big tech companies competing for data dominance. Cooperative governance offers an alternative model, as described in this (not yet peer-reviewed) paper from READ-COOP scholarly director, @melissaterras.bsky.social. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-1...

Pasifika Collections in the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register launch was last night, featuring Deveni Temu speaking about his connections to items held in @paradisec.bsky.social, PAMBU, & FE Williams Collections of Photos of Papua. Exhibit on display at ACT Heritage Library til 11 May.

PARADISEC Director Nick Thieberger will present in the DPC webinar series, on 12 March. Registration link below 👇 www.dpconline.org/events/event...

PARADISEC’s Nick Thieberger on our new cassette tape lubricator theconversation.com/how-were-rec...

How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes

A sophisticated machine called the LM-3032 Tape Restorator is helping give new life to decaying, decades-old cassettes.

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