Enable long-term access
Find language data faster
Analyse language at scale
Care for language materials
Work with language collections
Connect language research
Enable long-term access
Find language data faster
Analyse language at scale
Care for language materials
Work with language collections
Connect language research
Enable long-term access
Find language data faster
Analyse language at scale
Care for language materials
Work with language collections
Connect language research
Connecting People with Language Data
Whether you’re collecting, caring for, finding, accessing or reusing language data, the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) has resources to help support your work.
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Connecting People with Language Data
Whether you’re collecting, caring for, finding, accessing or reusing language data, the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) has resources to help support your work.
Explore the Data Portal
Search, browse and use language materials
Explore the Data Portal
Search, browse and use language materials
HOW WE CAN HELP
LDaCA provides hands-on support to make language data usable, ethical and future-ready
Find & access language materials
Exploratory portals to help you discover nationally significant language collections and access previously at-risk datasets. Support and guidance to ensure collections you manage are secure, discoverable and accessible into the future.
Find & access language materials
Exploratory portals to help you discover nationally significant language collections and access previously at-risk datasets. Support and guidance to ensure collections you manage are secure, discoverable and accessible into the future.
Find out more ➜PROJECTS, CASE STUDIES & RESOURCES
PROJECT
Arne ingkerreke apurtelhe-ileme: Project launch
Read about the launch of Arne ingkerreke apurtelhe-ileme, sharing the remarkable life’s work of Veronica Perrurle Dobson AM.
CASE STUDY
Sydney Speaks
LDaCA Chief Investigator Catherine Travis and former team member Cale Johnstone explain the complexities of handling data from three periods in a 40 year time span.
RESOURCE
Data Portal Guide
Information related to using the LDaCA Data Portal, covering navigation, search, filters, access, and downloads.
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EVENTS & RECORDINGS
WORKSHOP
Sustainable Data for Humanities Researchers workshop
26 August 2025, 9am – 4:30pm AEST
The University of Melbourne
Research data is valuable and fundamental to creating knowledge. This workshop introduced basic data management practices to help keep data useful and sustainable, guided by the FAIR and CARE principles.
WEBINAR
The ParlaMint corpora of European parliamentary proceedings
28 August 2025
In this webinar, CLARIN colleagues Tomaž Erjavec and Matyáš Kopp presented the ParlaMint corpora, a collection of 29 European parliamentary datasets covering national and regional proceedings from 2015–2022 and containing over one billion words.
WORKSHOP
Get Started with Federal Hansard for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research
11 September 2025, 9:30am–12:30pm AEST
The University of Queensland
This workshop introduced the Australian Federal Parliament’s transcribed proceedings, exploring their research potential, how to get started with different projects, and key considerations and limitations when working with parliamentary data.