Collaborating, Building And Broadcasting In Wadeye, Northern Territory (2016-2017)

Project Details

Audiovisual materials have been produced and stored by remote Indigenous media and cultural organisations in Australia for over thirty years, representing a distributed national collection of high cultural, linguistic and national significance. However, technical obsolescence of analogue materials, harsh environmental conditions and limited access to technological and financial resources in many remote communities present serious risk of information and knowledge being lost forever. This collaborative project was undertaken by the Melbourne Networked Society Institute and researchers from the University of Melbourne’s Australian Indigenous Studies Unit, Research Unit for Indigenous Languages and the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation in partnership with the Kanamkek-Yile Ngala Museum, Wadeye, NT, and the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. It  investigated how culturally significant and endangered Indigenous audiovisual archives could be effectively preserved and transmitted to current and future generations using innovative digital technologies.

Researchers

Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Dr Sharon Huebner

Dr Kristen Smith

Ken Clarke

Research Outputs

Ormond-Parker, L Langton, M Huebner, S Coleman, J Pearson, C Sloggett, R.Nordlinger, R Smith, K and Clarke, K 2016, 'When Magnets Collide: Digital Preservation and Access of At-Risk Audiovisual Archives in a Remote Aboriginal Community', Melbourne Networked Society Institute, The University of Melbourne