Professor Nicholas Evans, Head of the Department of Linguistics, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, at the Australian National University, has been working on the languages of Northern Australia for 25 years, and has cooperated closely with Iwaidja Inyman since its inception in 2004 as adviser, consultant, and author.

This project, funded by the London-based Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Program, and headed by Sydney University musicologist Linda Barwick, has provided local (Minjilang-based) electronic storage facilities, not only for music files, but also for video data collected by the Iwaidja Inyman project.

Iwaidja Inyman maintains the services of one of Australia’s top graphic design studios, Melbourne-based David Lancashire Design for all of its production. DLD, which has a 20-year history of design in Indigenous contexts, has a policy of charging lower rates for Indigenous work which they see as intrinsically important. Their work in Arnhem Land includes, amongst others, the design of the permanent exhibitions in the Bowali Visitor’s Centre and the Waradjan Centre in Kakadu National Park. The quality of their work for our publications, which was recognized by winning the NT Music Design and Artwork Award in 2005, has resulted in a higher profile and increased prestige for the Iwaidja Speech Community and their language.

All data collected by the Iwaidja Inyman project are deposited with the DoBeS Archive, which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (Germany). The archive is guaranteed in perpetuity, and is mirrored seven times in locations throughout Europe. The data are available online subject to restrictions imposed by members of the Iwaidja speech community. Access rights may also be set online by password holders. This immensely valuable archiving and technical support service is provided at no cost to the MELP project.

The Iwaidja Inyman team is using the LEXUS tool developed by Jacquelijn Ringersma within the DoBeS technical team at Nijmegen, to produce the online Iwaidja Multimedia Encyclopaedic Dictionary.

The Mamaruni school at Minjilang works closely with the Iwaidja Inyman project via involvement of the school’s Indigenous Languages and Culture program with the production of the online Iwaidja Multimedia Encyclopaedic Dictionary, as well as other activities of Iwaidja Inyman.

Mardbalk Arts & Craft Centre, based on neighbouring Warruwi (South Goulburn Island) makes space available for the display and sale of our publications, and also organizes mobile displays of all Iwaidja Inyman publications at regional art events.