The Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to announce a new research collaboration on the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA). This project is funded through the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and led by Professor Michael Haugh from the University of Queensland. It builds on our existing collaboration on the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP).
As explained on their website, The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) enables the Australian research community and industry access to nationally significant, data intensive digital research infrastructure, platforms, skills and collections of high quality data. As a national research infrastructure provider, the ARDC facilitates partnerships to develop a coherent research environment that enables researchers to find, access, contribute to and effectively use services to maximise research quality and impact.
The new LDaCA project makes nationally significant language data available for academic and non-academic use and provides a model for ensuring continued access with appropriate community control. It also connects these data to an improved analysis infrastructure for text analytics.
Other institutions involved in the LDaCA project include:
- Monash University
- Australian National University
- The University of Melbourne
- AARNet
- First Languages Australia (FLA)
- PARADISEC
- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL)
At the University of Sydney, the project is led by Prof Monika Bednarek and involves the Sydney Corpus Lab, The Sydney Informatics Hub, and PARADISEC.
LDaCA is also collaborating with a number of key stakeholders in research infrastructure, including CLARIN and the Digital Observatory.