Getting Started
OLAC FAQ
A Gentle Introduction to Metadata
OAI FAQ
DCMI FAQ
OLAC Document Format
OLAC documents are authored in XML, and are validated against
a DTD and rendered into HTML using an XSL stylesheet:
Founding Documents
These documents were presented at the international workshop in
December 2000 where OLAC was established. One hundred participants,
representing language resource projects in North and South America,
Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, reviewed these documents and
reached general consensus supporting the foundation of OLAC.
Overview
The overview presents the background and vision of OLAC, as presented
at the inaugural meeting which took place in Philadelphia in December 2000.
It describes the language resources community,
the Dublin Core metadata set and the Open Archives Initiative.
OLAC Overview
Philadelphia Meeting
Papers
A Metadata Search Engine for Digital Language Archives
Metadata Quality Evaluation: Experience from the Open Language Archives Community
The
Open Language Archives Community: An infrastructure for
distributed archiving of language resources
Building
an Open Language Archives Community on the DC Foundation
Building
an Open Language Archives Community on the OAI Foundation
Seven
Dimensions of Portability for Language Documentation and Description
Extending
Dublin Core Metadata to support the description and
discovery of language resources
The
Open Language Archives Community: An Infrastructure for
Distributed Archiving of Language Resources
The
Open Language Archives Community and Asian Language Resources
The
OLAC Metadata Set and Controlled Vocabularies
Historical Documents
ELSNews
article on OLAC
OLAC
presented at the OAI launch
A Survey of
Open Language Archives
(Results)
Supporting
Archive Communities in the Framework of the Open Archives Initiative
Timeframe
| From mid Dec 2000 |
Alpha testers mapped catalog data to Dublin Core
using the XML format required by the
OAI, and registered with the OAI as a data provider. |
| From March 2001 |
Alpha testers mapped catalog data to the beta
version of the OLAC metadata set,
and participated in discussions of the metadata, leading to a release
version. All alpha testers modified their data providers to
support this version. |
| January 2002 |
OLAC was launched to the wider community, and the OLAC
standards were frozen at version 0.3 for 12 months to
encourage widespread implementation (the pilot phase)
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| Early 2003 |
The OLAC standards were refined once more, based on experience
during the pilot phase. The OLAC operational phase began when the
standards were released at version 1.0.
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Events
EMELD 2006:
Tools and Standards: the State of the Art
(Lansing, USA, 7/06)
OLAC Tutorial at the LSA Annual Meeting
(Albuquerque, USA, 1/06)
EMELD 2005:
Linguistic Ontologies and Data Categories for Linguistic Resources
(Cambridge, USA, 7/05)
LSA Tutorial on Archiving and Linguistic Resources
(Oakland, USA, 1/05)
EMELD 2004:
The use of databases and best practices in language digitization
(Lansing, USA, 7/04)
EMELD 2003:
Digitizing & Annotating Texts & Field Recordings
(Lansing, USA, 7/03)
IRCS Workshop on Open Language Archives
(Philadelphia, USA, 12/02)
European Launch
(Las Palmas, Spain, 5/02)
US Launch
(San Francisco, USA, 1/02)
EMELD 2001:
Workshop on the Digitization of Language Data: The Need for Standards
(Santa Barbara, USA, 6/01)
Workshop on Web-Based Language Documentation and Description
(Philadelphia, USA, 12/00)
Presentations
OLAC at Third OAI Workshop
(Geneva, Switzerland, 3/04)
[ pdf ]
OLAC at ENABLER Workshop
(Paris, France, 8/03)
[ ppt ]
OLAC overview at ELSNET Summer School
(Prague, Czech Republic, 7/01)
[ pdf
| ps.gz
| sdd
| ppt ]
OLAC at ACL workshop
(Toulouse, France, 7/01)
[ pdf
| ps.gz
| sdd
| ppt ]
OLAC metadata at LINGUIST workshop
(Santa Barbara, USA, 6/01)
[ pdf
| ps.gz
| ppt ]
OLAC overview at LINGUIST workshop
(Santa Barbara, USA, 6/01)
[ pdf
| ps.gz
| ppt ]
OLAC at the OAI launch
(Washington DC, USA, 1/01)
[ pdf
| ps.gz
| ppt ]
OLAC Mockup
(Philadelphia, USA, 12/00)
[ html ]
OLAC White Paper
(Philadelphia, USA, 12/00)
[ pdf
| ps.gz
| ppt ]
OLAC Vision
(Philadelphia, USA, 12/00)
[ pdf
| ps.gz
| ppt ]
If you wish to use these materials in a presentation about OLAC, you are
invited to communicate your intentions to
olac-admin@language-archives.org
so that you may be advised about what information may need to be updated.
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