Project Coordinator

Responsible for coordinating the project, including three activities: training language workers in a variety of language documentation tasks, monitoring the collection and curation of language data, and ensuring that selected materials are suitably archived for long-term preservation.


  Steven Bird
   Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne
   Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
   http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/  sb@csse.unimelb.edu.au






Site Coordinators / Editors

Responsibilities: host a training session (February 2010), identify and oversee participants, communicate with other coordinators about progress, be responsible for a portable hard drive for hosting the recordings, co-edit the corpus publication.

Lakoa Fitina
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Divine Word University





Dr Sakarape Kamene
Head, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages
University of Papua New Guinea

Dr Anne-Marie Wanamp
Head, Department of Language and Literature
University of Goroka





PNG Advisors



Robert Natera, Acting Music Archivist
Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies
Port Moresby





Geno Momo, Senior Cultural Extension Officer
National Cultural Commission,
Port Moresby





John Hatton
Summer Institute of Linguistics,
Ukarumpa





International Advisors

Will Reiman, SIL International
Dr Gary Simons, SIL International
Dr Nick Thieberger, University of Melbourne
Prof Tony Woodbury, University of Texas, Austin

Team Members

Team members are responsible for recording speakers of PNG languages, and transcribing and translating selected materials.