SharePoint brought in to rescue Aboriginal language

With some Australian Aboriginal languages facing extinction, the Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association (ACRA) has adopted Microsoft SharePoint and Access to help its work to preserve one indigenous dialect. Based on Access, ACRA has created its own program--Miromaa, which means "saved" in Awabakal--to store data and research on the Awabakal language. ACRA also is using SharePoint Server 2007 to share its work with other Aboriginal groups to help the spread and restoration of the language.

According to ACRA, the system can help archive "all evidences of language including, text, audio, images and video" as Word documents and spreadsheets. In the future, ACRA plans to make Miromaa available using a Web-based platform to enable other groups to contribute to its research and enable Aboriginal communities to use ACRA's work in their own language studies.

Jo Best of ZDNet Australia reported from Sydney.

[alflanagan]

Wow

SharePoint and Access? Based on my experience with both, I suspect the language is doomed.

[kojacked]

Because it works!

I know this might be a shock to some of you hear but could it be that they use SharePoint as their portal and document library because it's easy to use and administrate?!?!?!?

It amazes me how the haters here can barely put two words together here that make sense. Let me see if I can match the intelligence:

- phpBB is less than ideal.
- phpBB on Linux is far, far less than ideal.
- Gawd, you think if they were going to use phpBB for their portal they'd at least use mySQL!

Sorry on the last one; it doesn't make much sense since SharePoint needs MS SQL Server and phpBB can use Access, mySQL, MS SQL, etc. I'm sure that's what confused the simple mind of Penguinisto since he clearly has no idea what SharePoint is and just likes to bash Microsoft. Keep sharing your insights Penguinisto! You are obviously make the case FOR Microsoft! Look what happens to a guy who uses Linux too long...

Gotta go now; I just broke my phpBB site while trying to add a document library mod... I tried installing with EasyMod but its not supported for this mod. So I had to hack it in manually and screwed something up! Maybe it's because I'm so far behind in security updates... Gawd I wish I had SharePoint! Whaaaaaaaa!