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The collection currently contains roughly 15,440 hours of archived audio materials representing more than 1,346 languages from around 100 countries. This is supplemented by images, videos and text. Altogether, the archive contains some 202 terabytes of data in more than 409,000 individual files (as
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PARADISEC advocates for the importance of repositories for cultural heritage materials, and discipline-specific repositories. Distributed and accessible online archives enable members of speaker communities to access records made of the language and musical practices. This work aims to bridge the
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