Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "University of Canterbury".
Liz Kivi, Geoff Clements and Derek Bent setting up the television outside the UC QuakeBox container at the Canterbury A&P Show. The television played videos of previous stories recorded in the UC QuakeBox.
The University of Canterbury is known internationally for the Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE) corpus (see Gordon et al 2004). ONZE is a large collection of recordings from people born between 1851 and 1984, and it has been widely utilised for linguistic and sociolinguistic research on New Zealand English. The ONZE data is varied. The recordings from the Mobile Unit (MU) are interviews and were collected by members of the NZ Broadcasting service shortly after the Second World War, with the aim of recording stories from New Zealanders outside the main city centres. These were supplemented by interview recordings carried out mainly in the 1990s and now contained in the Intermediate Archive (IA). The final ONZE collection, the Canterbury Corpus, is a set of interviews and word-list recordings carried out by students at the University of Canterbury. Across the ONZE corpora, there are different interviewers, different interview styles and a myriad of different topics discussed. In this paper, we introduce a new corpus – the QuakeBox – where these contexts are much more consistent and comparable across speakers. The QuakeBox is a corpus which consists largely of audio and video recordings of monologues about the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. As such, it represents Canterbury speakers’ very recent ‘danger of death’ experiences (see Labov 2013). In this paper, we outline the creation and structure of the corpus, including the practical issues involved in storing the data and gaining speakers’ informed consent for their audio and video data to be included.
Cracks between a concrete patio and path in a house in Richmond. The photographer comments, "Cracking in the concrete patio".
Detail of damage to the twisted Medway Street bridge. The photographer comments, "The twisted footbridge at the Medway St corner".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Canterbury University post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Canterbury University post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Canterbury University post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Canterbury University post earthquake".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Canterbury University post earthquake".
A photograph submitted by Bettina Evans to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "The gate of the Convent of Mercy, Lyttelton, cnr. Canterbury Str./Exeter Str., Sept. 2011".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Estuary. University of Canterbury student".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Estuary. University of Canterbury students".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Estuary. University of Canterbury students".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Estuary. University of Canterbury students".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Estuary. University of Canterbury students".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Estuary. University of Canterbury student".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Estuary. University of Canterbury students".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Estuary. University of Canterbury students".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Estuary. University of Canterbury students".
Children play in inflatable balls at the Canterbury A&P Show.
People sitting in the sun at the Canterbury A&P Show.
Bracing supports the side of a damaged building on Canterbury Street in Lyttelton.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Canterbury Brewery, St Asaph Street".
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Canterbury Brewery, St Asaph Street".
Damage to a house in Richmond. A large crack runs diagonally through a brick wall. The photographer comments, "More cracked brickwork".
A zipped json file recording the Red Zone journey of Brenda Bonnett, a participant in the Understanding Place research project.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "University of Canterbury".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Canterbury Law office, Madras Street".
A photograph of the Canterbury Cultural Recovery Centre's main floor.