materials are represented in these collections include Arthur Capell, Stephen Wurm, Clemens Voorhoeve and Terry Crowley. These recordings may be stored on a variety of formats, but are mainly cassette tapes and reel-to-reel tapes. Analogue recordings are digitised at the international archive standard for PCM audio files of 24-bit resolution and a sample rate of 96 kHz. Affiliations PARADISEC is funded by a consortium of three Australian universities, including the University of Sydney, University of Melbourne and the Australian National University, as well as the Australian Research Council. PARADISEC's main office and primary ingestion stations are located at the University of Sydney in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and secondary offices, comprising further ingestion stations, are situated at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. The archive is currently headed by Nicholas Thieberger (Melbourne) and Amanda Harris (Sydney). Other information PARADISEC is actively involved in training and supporting language workers and regularly provides recording equipment and advice to researchers and students undertaking fieldwork. They have held a number of field recording and sustainable data workshops and conferences, in the interests of ensuring recordings are made with archiving in mind. PARADISEC is a project to digitise endangered ethnographic recordings. PARADISEC in 2019 In 2019 received the World Data System data seal PARADISEC was in 2013 inscribed into the Australian Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program. PARADISEC is a CoreTrustSeal certified repository, and a regular member of the International Science Council's World Data System. In 2023 PARADISEC's founding Director Linda Barwick became Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the preservation and digitisation of cultural heritage recordings. References External links PARADISEC project page PARADISEC University of Sydney Endangered languages projects Sound archives in Australia