Inside the Archive: Tapes, Cylinders, Servers

The archive itself, on camera: Max Planck's Language Archive films, SOAS's Endangered Languages Archive on data stewardship, the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme, wax-cylinder digitization, Fanny Cochrane Smith's 1899 Tasmanian recordings, Tevfik Esenç's 1989 Ubykh broadcast and Long Now's 10,000-year Rosetta disc.

Playlist by @language_archive_docs

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. A Celebration of Language (original version) - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics — Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Language and Genetics Department
  2. A Universal Language — Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
  3. Data management in the Endangered Languages Archive | SOAS University of London — SOAS University of London
  4. Endangered Archives Programme — British Library
  5. LDTC ELP Fall 2020 Webinar #1 - Intro to Endangered Languages and Documentation — Language Documentation Training Center
  6. Language Documentation in Ambrym — AmbrymDobesProject
  7. Fanny Cochrane Smith - Wax Cylinder (Extract) (First recording by a black indigenous woman) — World Field Recordings
  8. Wax cylinder recordings: Preservation and discovery through digitization — UITS at Indiana University
  9. The Rosetta Project I Long Now Foundation I Exploratorium — Exploratorium
  10. TEVFİK ESENÇ'LE SÖYLEŞİ / 28.10.1989 / the last speaker of the Ubykh language — sd hj