Associate Professor Nicholas Thieberger has worked with speakers of Australian languages since the early 1980s. He established the Aboriginal language centre Wangka Maya in Port Hedland in the late 1980s, then worked at AIATSIS building the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive in the early 1990s.
He worked at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre for three years in the mid 1990s. He wrote a grammar of South Efate, a language from central Vanuatu that was the first to link media to the analysis, allowing verification of examples from an archival source used in analytical claims. In 2003 he helped establish PARADISEC (paradisec.org.au), a digital archive of recorded ethnographic material. He is a co-founder of the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity (RNLD) and in 2008 he established a linguistic archive at the University of Hawai'i. He is interested in developments in digital humanities methods and their potential to improve research practice and he is developing methods for creation of reusable data sets from fieldwork on previously unrecorded languages, including a collaboration with the National Library of Australia to encode the Daisy Bates vocabularies of Australian languages. He is the Editor of the journal Language Documentation & Conservation. He taught in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and is now an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Please see his homepage at http://nthieberger.net for full details.
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The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Resources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), (Nick Thieberger- Project Manager) received the 2008 award
Credentials
Positions
Principal Fellow Of Linguistics
Languages And Linguistics
Secretary
Australasian Association for Digital Humanities
Member
Research Unit for Indigenous Language
Co-Founder, Former President
Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity
Member
Foundation for Endangered Languages
Member (Approved By The Council Of Aiatsis)
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Secretary Of The Society
Australian Linguistic Society
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Master of Arts
La Trobe University
BA
La Trobe University