Last edited 17/4/2009

Publications - electronic publications

Listed here are primarily electronically published items. Some of my other paper-based published material is also available to download via an eprints repository.

April 2009. I created an online repository of materials (audio recordings, pdfs, jpgs) from the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation using the University of Hawai'i's ScholarSpace system (searchable here)

Nicholas Thieberger. 2007. A dictionary of South Efate. (Work in progress, illustrating outputs of Toolbox using images and audio/video illustrative samples)

Nicholas Thieberger. 2007. South Efate texts, a collection of interlinear texts linked to media.

McConvell, Patrick and Nicholas Thieberger. 2001. State of Indigenous languages in Australia - 2001, Australia State of the Environment Second Technical Paper Series (Natural and Cultural Heritage), Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra.

Barwick, Linda and Nicholas Thieberger. (eds.) 2006. Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork Sydney: Sydney University Press.

Nicholas Thieberger. 2001. As we may link: time-aligned concordances of field recordings. A working model. Paper presented at Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities.

Audiamus is a tool I have been developing for working with a corpus of digitised media.

A discussion of what we want from texts and how to produce written texts from audio sources. (given at the ALS texts session in Perth, October 1999).

A map showing numbers of speakers of Australian languages by Tindale grouping.

(Now superceded) Web pages of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre.

(Now superceded, but still useful) Web version of John Lynch's bibliography of Vanuatu languages. Includes screenshots of MapInfo maps of Vanuatu language locations.

Handbook of WA Aboriginal Languages south of the Kimberley Region.
A listing of the languages of Western Australia, with a page describing each language and sources on the language, hyperlinked to an annotated bibliography. Points of entry to the data are geographical, alphabetical and by language subgroup.

Designed, wrote and produced the Australia's Indigenous languages Information Stacks, Canberra: AIATSIS, 1994, HyperCard interactive multimedia data set illustrating Australia's indigenous languages.

These stacks are now distributed as freeware, click here to find out how to get them.

Notes for the computer-assisted language worker, 1994
A (now dated) guide to methods and software used for transcription, text analysis and concordancing. Updates are now being placed here.

ASEDA catalogue 1994
A list of the Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive contents.

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