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.
A poster which outlines the dewatering process.
A designer's guideline which explains the role of Technical Leads at SCIRT.
A copy of the award application for the New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards 2013.
A guideline created for SCIRT Delivery Teams which outlines the requirements for working around heritage items.
A plan which details how in 2013 SCIRT planned to engage its workforce in training.
An example of a tool SCIRT has used to communicate its projects to the business community.
A design guideline which provides information about how to use the SCIRT Asset Assessment Spreadsheet.
A manual which provides SCIRT AutoCAD users with general guidance about how to use AutoCAD.
A document which details the structure, roles and terms of reference for the Client Governance Group (CGG).
A document which contains a set of procedures for the "best practice" mark out and recording of subsurface utilities.
A guideline which defined the process and ownership of templates used by the design team and the management of the design team electronic library.
This document describes the tool developed for capturing the abandoned and removed assets using the SCIRT GIS viewer.
A guideline to inform designers of the pipe profilometer operation, including requesting profile surveys, standards and assessments of the survey results.
A manual which informs SCIRT AutoCAD users of all tools, utilities, keyboard shortcuts, and tips available within the SCIRT CAD System.
A magazine article which outlines the observations of engineers working on SCIRT retaining wall and ground improvement projects.
An example of the five year rebuild schedule map created as part of the prioritisation process detailing where and when construction would start. The data behind this map was updated every quarter.
A document which details the agreement in September 2013 between the Government and the Christchurch City Council over governance of the horizontal infrastructure rebuild.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 10 May 2013, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which roadcones = progress".The entry was downloaded on 16 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 10 May 2013, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which roadcones = progress".The entry was downloaded on 13 April 2015.
A design guideline which provides guidance to designers on how to carry out a whole of life evaluation of rebuild options.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 22 February 2013, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which two years make a tradition".The entry was downloaded on 13 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 17 June 2013, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which Boots tries to eat things".The entry was downloaded on 13 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 17 June 2013, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which Boots tries to eat things".The entry was downloaded on 16 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 22 February 2013, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which two years make a tradition".The entry was downloaded on 16 April 2015.
A plan which describes the framework, principles and process for determining project prioritisation and the sequence in which those projects are carried out. The first version of this plan was produced on 23 September 2011.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 18 December 2013, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which she meets the proverbial whinging Pom".The entry was downloaded on 13 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 18 December 2013, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which she meets the proverbial whinging Pom".The entry was downloaded on 14 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 25 June 2013, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which she writes more bad earthquake poetry".The entry was downloaded on 13 April 2015.
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 11 November 2013, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which Christchurch makes an artform of the temporary".The entry was downloaded on 13 April 2015.
