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Nicholas Fowler-Gilmore

Since finishing his Diploma in Technical Audio Productions in 2006 Nicholas has worked at the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra as an Audio Technician. While working in their Audiovisual Department preserving and digitising Indigenous audio material Nicholas learned the value of archives and the historical weight they hold. His position at PARADISEC is to assist in preserving and digitising the culturally significant audiovisual and written materials that are deposited in the collection and to assist with the much-needed equipment and facilities upgrade. Nick loves audio in all its forms, and preserving stories, music and historical content for future listeners and learners is a rewarding task.

Contact

Nicholas Fowler-Gilmore
Rm 240, Transient Building F12
Fisher Road
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA

Phone: +61 2 9036 9558
Fax: +61 2 9351 7572
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News & Events

  • Martin Thomas wins National Biography Award

    The story of how a son of Irish immigrants, R. H. Matthews, became one of Australia’s most significant early researchers of Aboriginal language, culture and history, has won the $25,000 National Biography Award, Australia’s richest prize for biographical writing and memoir, the State Library of NSW announced on Monday 14 May 2012.

    The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews, In search of an Australian Anthropologist by historian Martin Thomas, has brought to light the largely forgotten but immensely important contribution Mathews made to anthropology and Australia’s cultural history in the nineteenth century.

    Read more: State Library of NSW Media
    Sydney Morning Herald

  • Film Screening, 24 Feb: In Language We Live - Voices of the World

    February 21st is UNESCO's International Mother Language Day, and to celebrate the world's indigenous languages, RNLD, PARADISEC and the Department of Linguistics will be hosting a free screening of In Language We Live - Voices of the World on the afternoon of the 24th to coincide with the final round of OzCLO.

    Location: Education Lecture Room 424
    Date: Wednesday, February 24, 3:30 pm.

  • PARADISEC archive approaches 5TB

    National Computational Infrastructure

    PARADISEC's archive, hosted by the National Computational Infrastructure in Canberra, is soon to approach 5TB. Read more to see the full details of PARADISEC's collection held at NCI.

  • PARADISEC Wins VeRSI Prize

    PARADISEC

    In the words of the judges: "PARADISEC is an outstanding application of ICT tools in the humanities and social sciences domain that harnesses the work of scholars to store and preserve endangered language and music materials from the Asia-Pacific region and creates an online resource to make these available."

    PARADISEC has been cited as an exemplary system for audiovisual archiving using digital mass storage systems by the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives and has also been included as an exemplary case study in the Australian Governmet's NCRIS Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure.

    PARADISEC features in the Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Culture

    The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is an exemplary HASS capability project, undertaking digital conservation and provision of international access to research resources in audio, text and visual media on endangered cultural heritage in Indigenous Australia, the Pacific Island nations, and East and Southeast Asia. The project is known internationally for its development of low cost techniques for recording, accessioning, cataloguing and digitising complex cultural resources in digital media.... Read More (p.42)