National Foreign Language Resource CenterThe fluctuating fortunes of Northern Territory bilingual education programs in Australian
languages and English have put at risk thousands of books developed for these
programs in remote schools. In an effort to preserve such a rich cultural and linguistic
heritage, the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages project is establishing an open
access, online repository comprising digital versions of these materials. Using web
technologies to store and access the resources makes them accessible to the communities
of origin, the wider academic community, and the general public. The process
of creating, populating, and implementing such an archive has posed many interesting
technical, cultural and linguistic challenges, some of which are explored in this pape
