Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA)

🎉 Congratulations to Chief Investigator Monika Bednarek who was among the 41 scholars recently elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. This is an incredible achievement and a well-deserved recognition of Professor Bednarek's standout contributions to the field. Get the full story here 👇

The end of #ExploreYourArchive focus week is a chance to talk about #YourArchive. Though not technically an archive, our data portal provides access to collections of valuable language material, and we collaborate with existing archives like PARADISEC. We also help make data archive-ready for its permanent home. This week we've used our portal as a search tool for the growing number of corpora and other language collections which can be accessed there. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gjmc-7Xe

🚨 REMINDER: LDaCA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Commons are involved in the 6th annual conference of the Canadian Australian Partnership for Open Scholarship (#CAPOS) 'Commons, Platforms and Emerging Knowledge Frameworks'. 📆 Monday 2 – Tuesday 3 December 2024 📍 Flinders University, Adelaide City Campus 1️⃣ 2 December, 10 – 11 am ACDT: Keynote — ARDC's Jenny Fewster and LDaCA Program Manager Robert McLellan will speak about 'CAREful FAIRness and principles for Indigenous Data Governance'. 2️⃣ 2 December, 2 – 3:30 pm ACDT: Session 'Platforms, Approaches' — ARDC's Kit Greenhill will speak about 'Considering skills for researchers to co-create digital research infrastructure'. ✍️ Registrations open: https://lnkd.in/gdJA-G3b

Day 4 of #ALS2024 at The Australian National University: This morning, Research Analytics Lead Sam Hames and Research Support and Training Lead Simon Musgrave presented on 'Unparliamentary language in Australian Federal Parliament'.

🔎 For #ExploreYourArchive Focus Week #EYAAnimals, we found some fond animal-related recollections in the Braided Channels corpus. In the excerpt below, Joslin Eatts recalls some of her earliest memories complete with some unusual pets! "The first thing I remember – I think I must have been about four years old – and I remember my Dad had two camels. My Mum and Dad had two camels and I used to ride on them. Oh, boy oh boy, what a time. And I had pets. I had bilbies and I had a pet snake." 🔗 Find the full interview on our portal: https://lnkd.in/grvCupVw

🔎 For today's #ExploreYourArchive theme, we're revisiting mentions of #EYAfamily members in the Corpus of Oz Early English (COOEE): https://lnkd.in/gjhVzNUF 📊 Our chart is grouped by relationship and gender, with a noticeable gender imbalance in two cases: 'wife' is more frequent than 'husband' and 'son' is more frequent than 'daughter'. What is going on? More research is needed! Looking at just the most frequently mentioned family members (with at least 100 mentions): 1️⃣ The most common pronouns used before the word are, in order, 'my', 'his', 'her', 'your', 'their' and 'our'. 2️⃣ The most common adjectives used before the word are, in order, 'dear', 'affectionate', 'poor', 'dearest', 'little' and 'good'.

🔎 For #ExploreYourArchive focus week #EYADisco, we bring you an account of 19th century 'discos' in country Victoria from the Corpus of Oz Early English (COOEE). The description comes from a letter sent to a friend by Louisa Agnes Geoghegan in May 1868. "The style is to dance till daylight, because it is impossible to ride or drive in the dark, so those who must go, dance until it is light enough to start & the rest take thankfully anything they can get in the shape of a bed." 🔗 Read the letter in our portal: https://lnkd.in/gCmauKhU

🔎 References to #EYAMythology abound in 'The Kangaroo' by Barron Field, English-born judge & poet (Corpus of Oz Early English, 1819): "Sphynx or mermaid realiz'd, Or centaur unfabulous, Would scarce be more prodigious, Or Pegasus poetical, Or hippogriff - chimeras all!" 🔗 Read the rest of the poem on our portal: https://lnkd.in/gbAnUWXt

Calling all #Metadata enthusiasts! We're hosting a #Metadata Sprint event in April 2025 to bring together #librarians, #scientists, #coders, and #openinfrastructure enthusiasts. Pitch ideas, join projects, and co-create with our #RESTAPI and metadata. Limited spots—register your interest today for Crossref Metadata Sprint 2025: https://lnkd.in/eg4GDyfY!

We are looking forward to a great first day of #ResBaz Victoria 2024 at Monash University! Research Support and Training Lead Simon Musgrave is involved in two sessions during the week. 1️⃣ 27 November, 3–5 pm AEDT: Workshop 'Exploring text using concordances' 2️⃣ 28 November, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm AEDT: 'Solving 10 research challenges with the ARDC HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons', alongside Kit Greenhill from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) ✍️ Registrations still open: https://lnkd.in/grBB4nBA