PDSC-2021: PARADISEC at 100: Demangar dwonk-kaadidjiny: Vois blong bubu i kam bak: Entendre les ancêtres: Fa'aro'o i te mau tupuna: Hearing the ancestors. The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia, February 17-19, 2021

The Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources In Endangered Cultures celebrates over 100 TB in the archive!

Sydney, Australia and online, Wednesday 17-19th February 2021.

Registration is free.

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

The conference will explore a range of themes around community access to research materials, the archive and its role in collaborative research, including, but not limited to the following topics:

• How to get archival materials back to source communities
• Archival interfaces, landing pages and contextual information about collections
• Increasing the number of digital language and music archives
• Podcasts for public engagement with archives/research
• The future of archiving catalogue systems
• Possibility of new collaborative microservices for managing collections
• What could be done with my collection
• Diaspora populations reconnecting with Traditional Cultural Expression in archives
• Relearning Traditional Cultural Expressions from archived recordings
• Automated methods for getting text from primary sources (automated speech recognition, enhanced OCR)
• Ethics of digital distribution and of not digitising collections

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Presentations can be given in any language, but we encourage pre-recording and subtitling into English if possible. Papers can be short (10 minutes), or long (20 minutes). We particularly welcome presentations from people in the Pacific and from Indigenous Australians.

Proposals for presentations should be no more than 200 words (single space, 12 point font in Times New Roman) and must include at the top of the page, your name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), postal address, phone number and email address, the title for your presentation/panel, the sub-theme/s your work best connects to, and the presentation format (standard 20 minute paper or short 10 minute paper).

Proposals should be uploaded to EasyChair via this link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=pdsc2021#

To use this online conference management system, you will need to create an author account (a simple process) and then submit your proposal by uploading it to the system as a PDF document (with full details as listed above). Please follow the instructions provided on the OHA site if you are unfamiliar with EasyChair. 

If you are unable to use this system, please email your proposal as a PDF attachment to amanda.harris@sydney.edu.au

Organizing committee

• Nicholas Thieberger
• Amanda Harris
• Sally Treloyn
• Myfany Turpin

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to A/P Nick Thieberger: thien@unimelb.edu.au