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📢 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: https://t.co/GTluo2Qqhf

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💡 #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: https://t.co/ifiKVHsQj7

🔗Test out the semantic tagger: https://t.co/eT7ynthDNm

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⚖️ 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."

🔗 https://t.co/r5BcqagHpx

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

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The Insider Archivist: Collecting Music Recordings from East New Britain (ENB) (via @paradisecblog) https://t.co/PQL0ZKz8Z7 #pacificislander

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📣 Our partners at @AARNet are starting a monthly online drop-in session to discuss research challenges & solutions using Globus and FileSender.

🔗 https://t.co/O5Oy3oBUqS

Join the first session on 21 March 1:00pm AEDT. All levels of expertise welcome!

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⌛ 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: https://t.co/cKxf2MGvCt

📷 Office workers demonstrate new style of office filing system, Mitchell Library, SLNSW

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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: https://t.co/lbc8E2puff

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📊 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.

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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: https://t.co/LYuEDCMmnY

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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: https://t.co/JgIkoLCUCC

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🌐 Continuing our oral history theme on #InternationalMigrantsDay, we're sharing 3 amazing oral history projects that amplify the voices of migrant communities.

1️⃣ 'Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia (OMAA)'.

🔗 https://t.co/RHHw6OPDHX

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🌐 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.

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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.

🔗 https://t.co/KEbqoR1AGd

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@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: https://t.co/Ld5Xfi6VOa

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🌐 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: https://t.co/hsFCk6BAtU

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@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.

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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: https://t.co/ch6WxQM19e

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🚨 The EOI deadline for our 2025 Graduate Digital Research Program has been extended to February 19!

✍️ Apply now: https://t.co/s2SiqItX0S

🔗 Read about the 2024 program: https://t.co/yUpAaabdcR

📷 GDRF 2023 Fellows with mentors Sam Hames and Simon Musgrave.

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🚨 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: https://t.co/WL89sMCsxv