Language Data Commons of Australia

📢 Indigenous language researchers & workers: EOIs open for @QSArchives' First Nations Languages Research Workshop (13–16 May). Explore QLD's largest archival collection with support from QSA staff. Financial support available. Apply by 21 March: app.vision6.com.au/forms/s/X1NLSx…

💡 #SydneyCorpusLab affiliate Helen Caple has written a blog post on combining transitivity analysis with semantic tagging in her work on a historical newspaper, using the ATAP tagger. 🔗Read more: sydneycorpuslab.com/triangulating-… 🔗Test out the semantic tagger: github.com/Australian-Tex…

⚖️ For #EYAJustice, we unearthed an 1890 article by writer & suffragist Louisa Lawson in COOEE. She writes that an electoral bill allowing votes for women "bring[s] us as near to pure justice and absolute freedom as any human law has yet approached." 🔗 data.ldaca.edu.au/object?id=arcp…

@PARADISEC_Aus @paradisecblog Wonderful to read Steven's reflections on this project!

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

📣 Our partners at @AARNet are starting a monthly online drop-in session to discuss research challenges & solutions using Globus and FileSender. 🔗 aarnet.edu.au/the-data-mover… Join the first session on 21 March 1:00pm AEDT. All levels of expertise welcome!

⌛ How did you handle your old data on #OldStuffDay? LDaCA can help you manage your research data and prepare it for onboarding to the LDaCA portal. 🔗 Learn more: #4-preparing-data-for-cataloguing-in-ldaca" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ldaca.edu.au/resources/ldac… 📷 Office workers demonstrate new style of office filing system, Mitchell Library, SLNSW

The notebook ingests zip files containing images, returns an HTML file & provides some basic visualisations of the dataset including nearest neighbour mapping (pictured below). 🔗 Experiment here: github.com/Language-Resea…

📊 At this week's demo meeting, Research Analytics Lead @samuel_hames demonstrated a new Jupyter notebook for exploring image datasets developed with @DGTL_CulturesUQ and Summer Research Experience student Jasper Chong.

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…

3️⃣ Australian oral histories projects Last year, we shared 3 examples of migrant oral history projects which present significant oral history collections in unique & engaging digital ways. 🔗 Visit our post: x.com/LDaCA_Program/…

2️⃣ Yarrabil Bula: First Nations Songs LDaCA Program Manager @Rob_PS_McLellan recently spoke on a panel for the launch of Yarrabil Bula: First Nations Songs. Yarrabil shares children's songs composed by First Nations musicians in their own languages. 🔗 abc.net.au/about/media-ce…

🌐 Friday was #InternationalMotherLanguageDay! In this thread we're highlighting projects that foster connection with mother languages. The resources shared are underpinned by rich & complex data, which should be safeguarded for future generations.

@UQ_Library @Sydney_Uni The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services & Collections Team at UQ Library have recently audited the collection to improve discoverability and access. 🔗 Read about UQ Library's work here: buff.ly/40a75lH

@UQ_Library Caroline Kelly migrated to Australia from England in the 1920s. She later enrolled in a Diploma in Anthropology at @Sydney_Uni & conducted fieldwork at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in 1934. Fryer Library acquired her anthropological papers in 2010.

🌐 For World Anthropology Day we're sharing the story of the Caroline Kelly collection, held at Fryer Library (@UQ_Library). The collection contains significant language knowledge for Indigenous communities of QLD & NSW. 🔗 Access the collection: buff.ly/3CdcNex

CI Nick Thieberger is presenting at LT4All 2025 on digital language & music archives for language and cultural continuity, with an example from @PARADISEC_Aus. 📆 24 February 5:30pm (CET) 📍 Online ✍️ Register for online participation: lt4all2025.eu/online-registr…

🚨 The EOI deadline for our 2025 Graduate Digital Research Program has been extended to February 19! ✍️ Apply now: forms.gle/2SubrSQKFc5NU3… 🔗 Read about the 2024 program: ldaca.edu.au/news/posts/gdr… 📷 GDRF 2023 Fellows with mentors Sam Hames and Simon Musgrave.

🚨 REMINDER: Join @samuel_hames and @SimonMusgrave1 for a Hansard workshop hosted by @MDAP_Unimelb. 📆 20 February 2025 12:30pm - 4:30pm 📍 Naarm/Melbourne Unlock the potential of parliamentary transcripts in your research! ✍️ Register: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/hansard-…