OLAC Mission
OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an international
partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide
virtual library of language resources by:
(i)
developing consensus on best current practice for the digital
archiving of language resources, and
(ii)
developing a network of interoperating repositories and services
for housing and accessing such resources.
News
OLAC Presents at Driver Summit:
In January 2008, the DRIVER project convened a Summit [re] an operational confederation of digital repositories...
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OLAC Presents at NSF Workshop on Documenting Endangered Langauges:
In October 2007, the US National Science Foundation put on a workshop to assess the state of the
art in documenting endangered languages...
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OLAC receives new NSF Sponsorship:
The US National Science Foundation has funded a project
OLAC: Accessing the World's Language Resources...
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Documents
OLAC Standards - specify how OLAC operates
Recommendations - express consensus of OLAC members regarding language resource archiving
Notes - background information and guidance for implementers
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