  The UQ Flint Archive houses the field notes and elicitation recordings made
by Elwyn Flint in the 1950's and 1960's during extensive linguistic survey work
across Queensland, Australia.
  The process of digitizing the contents of the UQ Flint Archive provides a
number of interesting challenges in the context of EMELD. Firstly, all of the
linguistic data is for languages which are either endangered or extinct, and as
such forms a valuable ethnographic repository. Secondly, the physical format of
the data is itself in danger of decline, and as such digitization is an
important preservation task in the short to medium term. Thirdly, the adoption
of open standards for the encoding and presentation of text and audio data for
linguistic field data, whilst enabling preservation, represents a new field of
research in itself where best practice has yet to be formalised. Fourthly, the
provision of this linguistic data online as a new data source for future
research introduces concerns of data portability and longevity.
  This paper will outline the origins of the data model, the content creation
components, presentation forms based on the data model, data capture tools and
media conversion components. It will also address some of the larger questions
regarding the digitization and annotation of linguistic field work based on
experience gained through work with the Flint Archive contents.
