New blog from Nick Thieberger describing ongoing research by PARADISEC and collaborators on ASR (speech-to-text) of Pacific languages to create tools for supporting communities and workers! www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/10...

PARADISEC and ELAR are excited to announce the third Language Documentation and Archiving conference, to take place in Berlin, Germany and online from 9-11 September 2026.
Abstract submission open now, until 1 March 2026.
More information at langdoc.org.

PARADISEC digitises Pacific music recordings dating back decades in more than 1300 languages. www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... via @ABCaustralia

Our new article on songs that hold histories & people from the diaspora interacting with archives today:
with Deveni Temu, Steven Gagau and Jodie Kell 'Archived sound and creative engagements with PNG cultural heritage in Australia' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@paradisec.bsky.social

A reminder about a useful resource for learning about archiving language materials:
archivingforthefuture.teachable.com/courses/test...

The Insider Archivist: Collecting Music Recordings from East New Britain, PNG (via @paradisecblog) www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2025/03...

conference programme here unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...

PARADISEC Director Nick Thieberger speaking in Paris at the UNESCO Language Technologies for All conference on “The importance of digital language & music archives for language & cultural continuity, an example from the Pacific & Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures”

AI doesn't have to involve big tech companies competing for data dominance. Cooperative governance offers an alternative model, as described in this (not yet peer-reviewed) paper from READ-COOP scholarly director, @melissaterras.bsky.social.

open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-1...

Other collections on display highlighting the Australia-Pacific connections are the Queensland South Sea Islander Indentured Labour Records 1863-1908 and Funafuti: The Edgeworth David 1897 Expedition Documents (Australia and Tuvalu).

Pasifika Collections in the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register launch was last night, featuring Deveni Temu speaking about his connections to items held in @paradisec.bsky.social, PAMBU, & FE Williams Collections of Photos of Papua. Exhibit on display at ACT Heritage Library til 11 May.

PARADISEC Director Nick Thieberger will present in the DPC webinar series, on 12 March. Registration link below 👇

www.dpconline.org/events/event...

PARADISEC’s Nick Thieberger on our new cassette tape lubricator
theconversation.com/how-were-rec...