Dr Julia Colleen Miller

Archiving:

• Creating data management and archiving curricula for tertiary education
• Documenting technical workflows
• Digital repatriation of archived cultural content
• Curation of digital archives of underdocumented languages and cultures
• Creating rich, well-structured, accessible corpora

CURRENT POSITIONS

Sr Data Manager for the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA)

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the archiving of indigenous and minority language material collected by LDaCA members and affiliates
• Create best-practice workflows for archiving born-digital and legacy materials
• Liaise with other archives for collaboration and to advise
• Archive and curate data sets, creating appropriate metadata structures
• Facilitate the curation of rich, accessible corpora
• Collaboratively develop data access protocols
• Train researchers in data management and archiving procedures
• Project management of various collections and corpus projects
• Train, manage, and mentor support staff
• Purchase and maintain multiple computer workstations for audio-visual editing used by support staff
• Purchase and manage field recording and field safety equipment

ANU Unit Manager for the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)

 Responsibilities:

• Create a curriculum for data management and archiving for tertiary education
• Create best-practice workflows for PARADISEC and publish them
• Liaise with ANU Archives, NFSA, and NLA for collaborative projects
• Digitise audio recordings and field notes collected by researchers at ANU, create metadata records, enrich catalogue by cross-referencing audio and field notes
• Train project members and other researchers in digitisation techniques, metadata management and lodgment of materials in PARADISEC
• Purchase and maintain computer workstations and peripherals including analogue-to-digital converters
• Maintain reel-to-reel and cassette tape decks

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

My current focus is on creating documentation of PARADISEC's preservation workflows. Creating public resources is paramount for providing transparency in our archiving processes and maintaining institutional knowledge. It is hoped that these technical workflows and informational documents will provide guidance for archives as well as for those wishing to preserve their cultural materials.

The following links will take you to the specific technical workflows or archiving information guides:

• Getting started with PARADISEC
• Metadata & Data Management
• Standard Formats for Data Collection and Archiving
• Digitising Manuscripts & Field Notebooks
• Audio Digitising
• Audio Processing
• Video Processing with FFmpeg
• Video Processing with HandBrake
• Video Processing with Adobe Media Encoder
• Quality Checking of Audio and Video Files
• Improving Communication Access

PREVIOUS RESEARCH

Dissertation (2013): The Phonetics of tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan) Department of Linguistics, University of Washington

Abstract: This dissertation investigates the acoustic properties of lexical tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa. The noteworthy mirror-image tone systems of H-marked Doig and L-marked Halfway dialects provide a unique opportunity to explore intrinsic differences in how pitch manifests in specific environments.

• Part I- Effects of various linguistic features on normalized pitch, including tone, lexical and morphological categories
• Part II- Effects of word-final glottal stops on the voice quality of preceding vowels (intensity, pitch, jitter, and spectral tilt)
• Part III- Effects of speech style on normalized pitch, specifically word lists and narratives of two speakers of the Doig dialect

 Phonetics of tone in Dane-zaa

Ethno-linguistic ornithology: Documenting bird names and stories in the Morehead District, PNG

Abstract: This paper describes the elicitation of ethno-ornithological information within the framework of the Nen/Kómnzo language documentation project. Sessions were engaging, natural elicitation environments for collecting hours of birdsong, speaker commentary, physical descriptions and habits of the birds. These recordings will be used for phonetic and grammatical analyses, ornithological taxonomy, and are archived in the DOBES archive within The Language Archive.