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    Computers in Field Linguistics
    Thieberger, N (Elsevier, 2006)
    Computers have been associated with field linguistics from their earliest days, as witness the enthusiasm with which computers were embraced by linguists, from mainframe computers in the 1960s to personal computers in the 1980s. While initially it was common to force our efforts into the framework provided by particular software, we are now more aware of the need to see the data itself as the primary concern of the analyst and not the software that we use to manipulate the data. Inasmuch as it allows us to carry out the main functions desired by a field linguist, software is a tool through which our data passes, the data becoming transformed in some way, but surviving the journey sufficiently to live on, independent of any software, into the future.
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    Sustainable data from digital fieldwork: from creation to archive and back
    Barwick, Linda ; Thieberger, Nicholas (Sydney Unversity Press, 2006)
    This collection of papers arises from a conference of the same name, held at the University of Sydney in December 2006. Funded jointly by the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories and the Ethnographic e-Research project, and hosted by PARADISEC (the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures), the conference brought together researchers, technologists and information specialists with a common interest in sharing the results of their recent work at the interface between fieldwork and digital repositories. The timeliness of this event is indicated by the considerable national and international interest generated by the conference, which attracted presenters and attendees from the USA, Canada, UK, Norway and Russia, as well as staff and students of Australian Universities, national cultural institutions and Indigenous cultural centres. A selection of papers offered to the conference were submitted for anonymous peer review to form this volume.