This page presents a complete listing of the datasets with indigenous material held at the Australian Data Archive (ADA).
Datasets
The website http://www.historyofaboriginalsydney.edu.au/ is the output of a five year project on the history of Aboriginal Sydney, supported by the Australian Research Council and the Department of History, University of Sydney. The website contains images, videos, maps, timelines and interactive functionality.
The Story Project is an initiative of the Board of ALS NSW/ACT to celebrate its 40th anniversary. It consists of video interviews conducted with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people who worked with the various Aboriginal Legal Services that operated in NSW/ACT over the period 1970 – 2012.
Access: Conditional. Please contact us for further information on how to access this dataset.
The research data was collected as part of a study of the NSW annual Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout. The Knockout is so much more than a sporting event, involving a high level of organisation, it is both a social and cultural coming together of diverse communities for a social and cultural experience considered 'bigger than Christmas'.
This project is investigating the most effective processes for translating primary and secondary source material on Aboriginal history and culture in northwest NSW into an interactive multimedia program on CD-ROM.
Geographical data and images regarding Aboriginal rock paintings within the Mount Yengo National Park.
Access: Conditional. Please contact us for further information on how to access this dataset.
The dataset covers field research from a majority of Cowlishaw’s career from the 1970s-2000s. The dataset includes interviews and photographs of Aboriginal communities and other community members in the Northern Territory (1975-76, 1984, 1988-89, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2001), Bourke (1984-1985, 1998-99) and Mount Druitt (2000).
This project is with conjunction of the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney to digitise and repatriate, through digital means, a series of bark paintings from the Northern Territory. In addition to the barks a series of notes from anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt and Elder, Wandjuk Marika, explain the cultural significance behind these paintings.
This dataset contains the early research field notes (circa 1954) of anthropologist Dr Jeremy Beckett, consisting of handwritten notes, short stories and songs recorded in Kala Lagaw Ya and Meriam Mir, the languages of the Western, Central and Eastern Torres Strait Islands.
The dataset includes interviews and transcriptions from research conducted by Professor Goodall for her PhD research 'Invasion to Embassy Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770 – 1972'.
• Aboriginal Census calculation tables from 1926-1944
• Individual police district returns from 1926-1944
• Electronic spreadsheet representations of the Aboriginal Census material, created by Dr Smith and Dr Briscoe
• Graphs, tables and calculations derived from the Aboriginal Census material and other sources, prepared by Dr Smith and Dr Briscoe