Dr. Nick Thieberger
Project Manager, PARADISEC |
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I am working on archiving and representation of linguistic field data, related specifically to two languages of Vanuatu (South Efate and Lelepa). My main interest is in language documentation and the use and development of tools and standards to support linguistic fieldwork. I have developed a tool (Audiamus) for browsing, searching and citing field recordings and used it for presentation of examples and texts in the published grammar of South Efate. I am the project manager for PARADISEC, a great collaborative data repository which is digitising early field recordings and has built the metadata repository and associated infrastructure to store and serve this material. I am also managing the EResearch project 'Sharing access and analytical tools for ethnographic digital media using high speed networks' which is developing online access to archival media, with a special focus on delivery of interlinear text linked to media using XML schemas. I am co-convenor of the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity, which shares information about language documentation methods. In the past I have worked with the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive at AIATSIS and at Wangka Maya, the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre.
Publications
Thieberger, Nicholas. 2006. A Grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu Oceanic Linguistics. Special Publication, No. 33. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Barwick, Linda and Nicholas Thieberger. 2006 Cybraries in paradise: New technologies and ethnographic repositories. to appear in C. Kapitzke & B. C. Bruce, (Eds). Libraries: Changing information space and practice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 133-149.
