Mount, Alison L.Barker, JimmieBarker, RoySedran-Price, CassandraHiggins, MichaelBarker, Lorina L.Staggs, BartonSimpson, Jane2025-06-112025-06-110726-8602ORCID:/0000-0002-7487-1234/work/172417994http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85204696095&partnerID=8YFLogxKhttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733759416Jimmie Barker (1900–1972) was a Muruwari Elder, Cultural Knowledge Holder, linguist, historian, ethnographer, inventor and sound engineer who produced over 113 h of audio recordings using reel-to-reel tape recorders between 1968 and 1972. Jimmie was supported in his endeavours by Janet Mathews and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) (formerly, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies). The “Barker Collection” of audio recordings is now housed in the AIATSIS Collection. Jimmie initially set out to record a Muruwari-English dictionary, but this expanded into documenting Muruwari language and culture, as well as personal, family, domestic and international history. Much of the collection comprises self-elicitation, metalinguistic analyses, oral histories and reflections. It includes some of the earliest recordings and language documentation by an Aboriginal person of other Aboriginal people, observations of typological properties and language change in Aboriginal languages, and critical analyses of linguistic and anthropological research. Since 2021, Roy J. Barker, grandson of Jimmie and Muruwari Cultural Knowledge Holder, has overseen a team of linguists designing a time-aligned ELAN corpus of Jimmie’s recordings for language revival outcomes. The recordings are transcribed, annotated with metadata and coded with cultural and language tags with consideration to the FAIR and CARE Principles.This work was supported by the Australian Government Office for the Arts Grant ILAOC210179 Muruwari Ngulli Yaandibu (Muruwari we speak) 2021\u20132023, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CE140100041), and the Australian Signals Directorate Summer Scholars Program 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24. We also thank AIATSIS and PARADISEC for in-kind support. We would like to acknowledge the enormous contributions made by summer scholars to transcription: Ruben Thompson, Grace Ephraums, Floofy McFloofkins, Diego Gabriel Machado Colling, Larissa Schwenke, Maria Zoontjens, Lissara Bergamaschi and Felix Kimber, and intern Ronya Ramrath. Thanks to Nay San for his invaluable work producing automatic transcripts of the corpus (San et al., 2022). Thanks to Danielle Barth for her generosity in sharing the ELAN structure for her Matukar Panau language documentation corpus as a template. Thanks to Julia Miller for her advice on metadata standards and data management. Special thanks to the Barker Family for their ongoing engagement in the design of the spelling system. Thank you to the individuals who generously allowed JB to record their voices and languages: Aunty Emily (Emily Horneville) and Kaku Jack O\u2019Lantern. Finally, thank you to Jimmie Barker: for your vision and your dedication to recording the Muruwari language and culture.23enPublisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.corpus linguisticsEmily HornevilleFAIR and CARE PrinciplesIndigenous-ledJimmie BarkerMuruwari202410.1080/07268602.2024.238068985204696095