Nick Thieberger, Director of Paradisec, presents how Paradisec has made their data findable via rich metadata, identifiers through Research Data Australia and disciplinary discovery portals. On YouTube: https://youtu.be/hn3lBvLCWp8 Full Webinar on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vn2pr2dGzCs Transcript: https://www.slideshare.net/AustralianNationalDataService/transcript-1-fair-intro-into-fair-and-f-for-findable

1. Finding PARADISEC
Nick Thieberger
School of Languages and Linguistics
University of Melbourne
PARADISEC acknowledges and pays respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Ngunawal and the Woiwurrung

2. Pacific and Regional
Archive for Digital
Sources in
Endangered Cultures
(PARADISEC)
1,103 languages
99 countries
409 collections
18,286 items
162,335 files
7,595 hours audio
750 hours video
31.4 TB of files
As of 22/8/17

3. Findability of primary research materials
Catalog provides minimal required fields
OAI / DC – based metadata

4. Online catalog

5. Finding connections
Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta – digitising tapes and provision of safe ‘blind’ backup of parts of
their collection
University of New Caledonia – digitising of mouldy field recordings
Solomon Islands National Museum – digitising analog tapes
Tjibaou Centre - New Caledonia - discussion of metadata and archiving methods
Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies - provision of CD copies of tapes
Divine Word University – Madang, PNG – digitising cassettes and open reels

6. Findability of primary research materials
Findability - how easy is it to learn of the existence of the records?
What level of granularity does the finding aid provide?
PARADISEC’s focus is on cultural materials that are both a base for research and a local
community resource (family history, traditional heritage records)
Findability
Least to most

7. Findability of primary research materials
Most primary records are kept by the original researchers in
their office or home
Findability = 0/10, maybe 1/10 if colleagues know about their
existence
We often infer the existence of records from published work
that describes fieldwork, and then go looking for it

8. Findability of primary research materials
We can add records to a catalog to announce the
existence of analog or digital records and to provide
language identifiers (finability 3/10)
Findability increases (accessibility is still virtually zero)

9. Findability of primary research materials
We provide images of manuscripts, and
similarly, provide dynamic media with no
textual transcript
Findability increases (5/10)

10. Findability of primary research materials
We provide streaming media with a textual
transcript
Findability increases at the level of
individual utterances (8/10)

11. Findability of primary research materials
We embed metadata into the header of
wav files, creating a BWF (Broadcast Wave
Format) file
<REPORT>
<BEXTDATA>
<DESCRIPTION>
Language: "Panim" pnr; Country: PG; Notes: Elicitation of Z'graggen wordlist;
permission conversation. Forms a single session with DD1-004 (the recorder's
filesize was exceeded so it broke up the recording). [Genre] Elicitation, permission
[Length] 1:02:08 [Filename] 2010.07.18-pnr-SS-
Elicitation1.Part1.and.Permission.wav [Annotated in] Panim 1:1-27 [Other lgs] Tok
Pisin [Speaker(s)] Segena Som [Subject lg] Panim.
</DESCRIPTION>
<ORIGINATOR>DD</ORIGINATOR>
<ORIGINATIONDATE>2010-07-18</ORIGINATIONDATE>
</BEXTDATA>
<QUALITYREPORT>
<BASICDATA>
<ARCHIVENUMBER>DD1-003</ARCHIVENUMBER>
<TITLE>SS Elicitation 1-1, permission</TITLE>
<OPERATOR>NFG</OPERATOR>
</BASICDATA>
<QUALITYEVENTS>
<EVENT>
<TYPE>IngestNotes0</TYPE>
<COMMENT/>
<SAMPLECOUNT>0</SAMPLECOUNT>
</EVENT>
</QUALITYEVENTS>
</QUALITYREPORT>
</REPORT>

12. Findability of primary research materials
DOI provided for all files, items, and collections
Persistent Identifier

13. API, metadata feeds:
http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/apidoc

14. API, metadata feeds picked up by ANDS, OAI
services, Open Language Archives Community
(OLAC), TROVE, etc
https://researchdata.ands.org.au/contributors/paradisec

15. API, metadata feeds picked up by ANDS, OAI
services, Open Language Archives Community
(OLAC), TROVE, etc.
http://search.language-archives.org/search.html?fq=archive_facet%3A%22Pacific%20And%20Regional%20Archive%20for%20Digital%20Sources%20in%20Endangered%20Cultures%20%28PARADISEC%29%22

16. API, metadata feeds picked up by ANDS, OAI
services, Open Language Archives Community
(OLAC), TROVE, etc.
https://vlo.clarin.eu/search?1&fq=collection:Pacific+And+Regional+Archive+for+Digital+Sources+in+Endangered+Cultures+%28PARADISEC%29

17. API, metadata feeds picked up by ANDS, OAI
services, Open Language Archives Community
(OLAC), TROVE, etc.
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=paradisec&fq=&dblist=638&start=21&qt=next_page

18. Enriching metadata
http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2017/06/improving-the-metadata-of-papua-new-guinea-collections/

19. Promoting the collection
Glossopticon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2iimqq7LS8

20. Finding our content in Melanesia

21. Finding PARADISEC
Creating a standard metadata set
Applying as much metadata to items as possible
Making primary records available once a search finds them
Publishing metadata for harvest by both discipline-specific and more general services
Publicising the existence of the collection
Engaging with researchers (training in data managment and collection building)
Engaging with community agencies in the Pacific region

22. Australian Research Council – LIEF grants LE110100142, LE0560711,
LE0453247
ARC DP0450342, DP0984419, & FT140100214