Small stones can break big canoes: Securing records of the world's indigenous languages

世界土著语言的脆弱记录面临丢失的危险。更好的研究方法，不仅有利于学术界，也有利于广大公众的目标是在这个项目中开发，并用于培训新的研究人员和社区成员创造更好的记录。通过在澳大利亚和太平洋地区开展合作，建立有助于改进研究做法的工具，它将增加对已经完成的研究的了解，并将确定未来重点关注的领域。模拟新的实地工作方法，构建可重复使用的数据集，以及策划语言记录的长期收藏都将是该项目的一部分，以及支持语言学和更广泛社区中类似工作的外联活动。

Fragile records of the world’s Indigenous languages are at risk of being lost. Better research methods that can benefit not only academics but also the general public aim to be developed in this project and used to train new researchers and community members in creating better records. Collaborating across Australia and the Pacific in building tools that will result in better research practices, it will increase knowledge of what research has been done, and will target areas for future focus. Modelling new fieldwork methods, building reusable datasets, and curating long-term collections of language records will all be part of this project, as will outreach to support similar work both in linguistics and in the broader community.