Overview

Academic field work data collections are unique and unrepeatable records of highly significant events. While fieldworkers have been quick to take advanages of technologies to collect and organise data, standards and workflows are only now emerging to assist researchers to submit their data for archiving and access.

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Author:   Linda Barwick ,  Nicholas Thieberger
Publisher:   Sydney University Press
Imprint:   Sydney University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9781920898502

ISBN 10:   1920898506
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   01 December 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Sustainable data from digital fieldwork: the state of the art (Sydney, 2006) Linda Barwick Part 1: fieldwork to archive 2. Issues in the creation of a digital archive of a signed language Trevor Johnston and Adam Schembri 3. Powerless in the field: a cautionary tale of digital dependencies Tom Honeyman 4. Archiving directly from the field Laura Robinson 5. From trees to descriptions and identification tools Barry Conn and Kipiro Damas Part 2: best practice? 6. When best practice isn't necessarily the best thing to do: dealing with capacity limits in a developing country John Bowden and John Hajek 7. Proficient, permanent or pertinent: aiming for sustainability David Nathan 8. Finding the locus of best practice: technology training in an Alaskan language community Andrea Berez and Gary Holton 9. E-MELD and the School of Best Practices: an ongoing community effort Jessica Boynton, Steve Moran, Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry Part 3: tools and repositories 10. EOPAS, the EthnoER online representation of interlinear text Ronald Schroeter and Nicholas Thieberger 11. The Annodex platform (2006) Shane Stephens 12. Archiving and sharing data using XML Simon Musgrave 13. Sowing seeds in the digital garden Murray Henwood, Susan Hanfling, Rowan Brownlee, Belinda Pellow and Tristan Gutsche Part 4: beyond the repository 14. Past, present and future in Reefs-Santa Cruz research Åshild Næss 15. Field, file, data, conference: towards new modes of scholarly publication Ross Coleman

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About the editors: Linda Barwick is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Sydney. Nicholas Thieberger is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

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