Find & access data
Digital infrastructure to help you find and access nationally significant language collections.
Facilitating collection discovery and access
Significant collections of language data, including collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, Australian Englishes and other migrant languages, and regional languages of the Pacific, are at risk of being lost. LDaCA works to secure at-risk collections and improve access to under-used collections. Dive into exploratory portals for data discovery, and find training and guides to support you in finding and accessing language data.
AVAILABLE PORTALS
Oni: A web application that provides indexing, searching and access to secure data repositories following the Arkisto model. This is used to build the LDaCA Portal: The online interface of the Language Data Commons of Australia where users can discover and access language collections.
LDaCA Data Portal
Explore and access significant collections of language data, including the Mitchell and Delbridge corpus and the Australian component of the International Corpus of English (ICE).
PARADISEC Portal
PARADISEC has more than 700 collections representing over 1,370 languages.
COLLECTIONS
Explore available collections for language research and work.
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GUIDES
LDaCA guides to help you navigate language collections.
ON THE BLOG
Corpus spotlight: Mitchell and Delbridge
Read about one of the first collections to enter our data portal — the Mitchell and Delbridge speech of Australian adolescents corpus (1959–1960) — and its impact on Australian linguistic research.
Putting data to work
Research Support and Training Lead Simon Musgrave discusses how he used four collections from the LDaCA portal to strengthen his argument in a recent publication that there is a tradition of Australian writers inventing expressions which they treat as being part of Australian slang.
What happened to the Australian National Corpus (AusNC)?
LDaCA team members, who also worked on the AusNC project, explain the relationship between the two, and why AusNC is not an entity in the LDaCA Data Portal.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
COLLABORATORS
Interested in contributing to LDaCA?
Do you have data, expertise or resources you'd like to share? We'd love to hear from you.
Interested in contributing to LDaCA?
Do you have data, expertise or resources you'd like to share? We'd love to hear from you.