Culture Online

Kutay, CM; Green, R

Culture Online

Kutay, CM

Green, R

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Publisher:: AIATSIS Research Publications
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Information Technology and Indigenous Communities, 2013, pp. 89 - 104 (15)
Issue Date:: 2013

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dc.contributor.author	Kutay, CM https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6682-979X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Green, R	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Ormond-Parker, L	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Corn, A	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Fforde, C	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Obata, K	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	O’Sullivan, S	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Information Technology and Indigenous Communities, 2013, pp. 89 - 104 (15)	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	1922102164	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781922102164	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/119626
dc.description.abstract	Many Indigenous projects, such as language recording, use existing information technology (IT) resources for cultural sharing on the internet or storing culture on computer systems separate from the web to ensure privacy. However, existing resources are not always suitable for the needs of Indigenous users, and many very creative IT language projects are designed for material in a single language. This chapter documents the design of web resources used in the reclamation of the Dharug language of Sydney.1 We discuss a Web 2.0 framework for the creation of highly interactive websites that allow users to share these teaching techniques or materials between language groups. Such a framework should deal with the issues involved in teaching and learning Aboriginal languages, including the scarcity of speakers for many languages, the need for audio and video materials online, and the complexity of these languages, which requires novel teaching techniques. We also look at international projects that use technology to support community knowledge sharing spaces. These include engineered interfaces that enable users to physically ‘interact’ with images and computer-generated objects or to use mobile phones to project images and place audio information into the real world, thereby recreating past or future environments. Further, we look at web services that are being used to recreate the community of survivors of recent earthquakes and develop a learning space. Finally, the limited possibilities of existing work on text to speech and speech to text are presented. We relate this work to Australian Indigenous cultural projects and discuss how links might be made, especially with open source software.	en_US
dc.publisher	AIATSIS Research Publications	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Information Technology and Indigenous Communities	en_US
dc.title	Culture Online	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.location	Australia	en_US
utslib.for	130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Professional Practice and Leadership
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Abstract:

Many Indigenous projects, such as language recording, use existing information technology (IT) resources for cultural sharing on the internet or storing culture on computer systems separate from the web to ensure privacy. However, existing resources are not always suitable for the needs of Indigenous users, and many very creative IT language projects are designed for material in a single language. This chapter documents the design of web resources used in the reclamation of the Dharug language of Sydney.1 We discuss a Web 2.0 framework for the creation of highly interactive websites that allow users to share these teaching techniques or materials between language groups. Such a framework should deal with the issues involved in teaching and learning Aboriginal languages, including the scarcity of speakers for many languages, the need for audio and video materials online, and the complexity of these languages, which requires novel teaching techniques. We also look at international projects that use technology to support community knowledge sharing spaces. These include engineered interfaces that enable users to physically ‘interact’ with images and computer-generated objects or to use mobile phones to project images and place audio information into the real world, thereby recreating past or future environments. Further, we look at web services that are being used to recreate the community of survivors of recent earthquakes and develop a learning space. Finally, the limited possibilities of existing work on text to speech and speech to text are presented. We relate this work to Australian Indigenous cultural projects and discuss how links might be made, especially with open source software.

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