This is the home page of the ARC funded project Ethnographic Eresearch (EthnoER).

This project was funded in late 2005 with the aim of creating a system to allow online annotation of media, especially video.

The project involves collaborators from a number of institutions and is led by the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.

Specific aims of the project are:
1 Develop a methodology for collaborative research based on large digital media datasets, particularly video, using highspeed networks and large data repositories.
2 Ensure that digital research collection management is able to provide access and ensure longevity and reusability of research data by conforming to relevant standards.
3 Enable access via authentication to distributed research datasets using embedded rights metadata.
4 Ensure that the participant testbeds allow interoperability of data models and provide training so that future such datasets can similarly interoperate.
5 Provide the means to distribute richly annotated ethnographic media not only to researchers but also to its source communities in rural, regional and remote locations.