Nick Thieberger is a co-founder and co-Director of the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity.
Nick was awarded a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne in 2004. He is an Australian Research Council QEII fellow at the University of Melbourne and Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i.
Nick works with Warnman, an Indigenous language from Western Australia, and South Efate, a language from central Vanuatu, for which he developed a method for citing archival recordings created during fieldwork.
In 2003, Nick helped establish the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures and is the project officer with this multi-institutional archiving project. In 2008 Nick established Kaipuleohone, the linguistic archive at the University of Hawai'i. He is now developing methods for creation of reusable data sets from fieldwork on previously unrecorded languages. Nick is the technology editor for the journal Language Documentation and Conservation.
Contact
nick.thieberger [@] gmail.com