RAPID-CDL

Welcome to the Reusable and Accessible Public Interest Documents project, part of ARDC’s Community Data Lab. The RAPID-CDL project aims to make public interest documents such as parliamentary proceedings, inquiry submissions, hearing transcripts, and ministerial records more accessible and usable for researchers across Australia.

What are we working on right now?

Quotes from ResBaz QLD

“Do 414 of these text files contain the first line of Waltzing Matilda?” - Betsy

“This corpus might contain a book about camel care. It probably doesn’t though.” - Sam

“I wish I’d chosen a smaller example dataset.” - Sam

“I think we might need more chairs…” - Eve

“We need more chairs!” - Eve

“I wrote down ‘introduce self’ so this is going well already.” - Sam

“We have created an award called the ‘Hames Award’ for the most workshops at ResBaz. Here is your prize t-shirt!” - Maca

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