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RNLD:
Activities
RNLD has run training sessions in the use of linguistic software (in particular Shoebox, Toolbox, Transcriber, Elan and regular expressions) at the following locations during 2005/2006: Melbourne University, Sydney University, University of Queensland, University of Hawai'i, Kalgoorlie Language Centre, Muurrbay Many Rivers Language Centre (Nambucca Heads), New South Wales Aboriginal Languages Research and Resource Centre (Sydney), Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages (Melbourne). A day-long training workshop was held in Melbourne at the ALS conference in 2005.
The
foci of Network activities include:
- Functioning
as a resource pool for any individual or organisation undertaking
language
maintenance activities. The Network website provides a means of
building a
database of skills and interests, and detailed information about
language
maintenance work. The email list facilitates the
dissemination of information and enables language maintenance
practitioners to
draw upon the skills and experiences of others.
- Documentation practices, for example, the approaches being developed
by the
Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
(PARADISEC), the Electronic Metastructure for Endangered languages
(EMELD), the
Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archive Network (DELAMAN), and
Open
Language Archives Community (OLAC).
- Training
approaches, for example, those available regionally at the University of
the
South Pacific, Vanuatu and
in Australia at Batchelor College (NT), Pundulmurra College (WA),
and those within the Language
Endangerment Studies courses
at MA, Postgraduate
Diploma, Graduate Certificate and Faculty Certificate levels at Monash University, Victoria.
- Archiving
drawing on the experience of PARADISEC and the Australian Institute ofAboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
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