Of the 7,000 languages in the world today, most have little presence on the internet. What records there are in these languages are often religious translations from large languages and so, while b…

For the past 20 years, PARADISEC has digitised music recordings which date back decades and feature more than 1300 Pacific languages.

For people in the region of Oceania and Indigenous Australia, histories have long been held in oral and embodied forms. Pacific historians have pointed to the ‘vast store of lived and relived exper...

Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections

In 2024, I initiated the “ENB Digitisation and Preservation Project” aiming to collect old analogue tape recordings from my community in East New Britain in Papua New Guinea. As a staff…

A sophisticated machine called the LM-3032 Tape Restorator is helping give new life to decaying, decades-old cassettes.