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Team Name


Awesomely Cool


Team Members


Matthew , aisjam , Annette and 3 other members with unpublished profiles.

Project Description


Our vision for the weekend was to use emerging technology to create an application used in partnership with communities to promote and encourage active participation in the preservation and reconstruction of some of our most valuable and at-risk languages.

We’ve used Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and gamification to map not only languages, but also historical imaging of agriculture and seasonal farming migration throughout Australia.

We’ve used language datasets, APIs, GPS tracking, and image recognition to identify indigenous landmarks, words, and imagery to unlock stories in an informative and interactive game style play.

The virtual reality experience will be something that will be common in education in 2050, but can also be used by individuals for personal entertainment and education, as well as metropolitan city inhabitants, to test their regional options.

Partnering with, and using open data sets and community participation across Australia to ensure maintenance, and the growth of our application to be future resistant.


Data Story


Using the users location from the device we hook into the State Library of Queensland - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages word lists api to get the welcome message in the language and name of the local indigenous tribe.

The Rockhampton Regional Council Library data is used to add the local community stories to the application.

We use the Austlang Dataset and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages along with the user location to display the local indigenous tribe's names of places and objects within the application.


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Darumbal History

Description of Use Local history put together by our Durumbal community ensuring that we example how our digital innovation precincts could work to population information and use local knowledge. Images have also been used from this website.

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Dharumbal: the language of Rockhampton, Australia

Description of Use Example of partnership with Higher education research precincts in order to populate indigenous information into our application.

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Darumbal Aboriginals | Central Queensland History

Description of Use Community input into local information in order to populate and validate information contained within mock-ups.

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Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Study on the role of languages and culture in the promotion and protection of the rights and identity of indigenous peoples

Description of Use Used for background information into importance of indigenous languages to people and communitites, and also to gain understanding of importance to governments and national bodies.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages

Description of Use Used to display the local indigenous tribe's names of places and objects within the application.

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Austlang Dataset

Description of Use Used to display the local indigenous tribe's names of places and objects within the application.

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Rockhampton Regional Council Library

Description of Use Used to add the local community stories to the application.

Data Set

State Library of Queensland - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages word lists

Description of Use Using the users location from the device we hook into the State Library of Queensland - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages word lists api to get the welcome message in the language and name of the local indigenous tribe.

Data Set

Challenge Entries

Spatial Information

How might Queenslanders find out more about where they live?

Eligibility: We strongly recommend using the Queensland Government open datasets on data.qld.gov.au and spatial web services on QSpatial

Go to Challenge | 19 teams have entered this challenge.

Leveraging innovation precincts to drive economic prosperity.

How might we build on interaction between businesses and research institutions in Australian innovation precincts, to boost business capability, growth, and job creation?

Eligibility: The dataset "Stocktake of Australian Innovation Precincts – June 2019" must be used

Go to Challenge | 23 teams have entered this challenge.

Training AI models to deliver better human outcomes

For an outcome create two AI models based on contrasting incentive systems and examine the differing impacts on the defined outcome.

Eligibility: Must make use of any open dataset and apply two different incentive systems

Go to Challenge | 12 teams have entered this challenge.

🌟 Unearth references to Indigenous agricultural practises by searching archival records

There is increasing interest in foods that were grown on this continent for millennia, awareness of Aboriginal farming practices, and the history they reveal about Australia pre-colonisation. This challenge is to search Trove for descriptions of land care, cropping, harvesting and food storage, to add to the bank of knowledge of Aboriginal farming.

Eligibility: Must use Trove

Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.

Thrive or survive: how can we adapt for the future?

What will Australia in 2050 look like?

Eligibility: Must use one or more CSIRO datasets

Go to Challenge | 38 teams have entered this challenge.

Highlighting the regional living advantages over metropolitan capitals.

Enabling people to choose the most suitable regional centre for a sea or tree change.

Eligibility: Open to teams from Regional Areas

Go to Challenge | 11 teams have entered this challenge.

Queensland OpenAPI

Create a project using one or more of Queensland's Open-API’s

Eligibility: Your solution to this challenge should access at least one Queensland Open Data API. You can mix and match this with other API’s or data

Go to Challenge | 39 teams have entered this challenge.

Indigenous Languages

How might we showcase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language materials?

Eligibility: Your solution to this challenge should use at least one dataset from the State Library of Queensland

Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.