IRCS Workshop on Open Language Archives 10-12 December 2002 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Organized by Steven Bird and Gary Simons Funded by the National Science Foundation

PREPARATION

Here are various ways in which participants can prepare for the workshop:

1. Review the proposed standards:
   • OLAC Metadata
   • OLAC Process
   • OLAC Protocol
2. Review the recommendations:
   • Recommended metadata extensions
   • OLAC Access Vocabulary
   • OLAC Linguistic Field Vocabulary
   • OLAC Role Vocabulary
   • OLAC Linguistic Type Vocabulary
   • OLAC Discourse Type Vocabulary
3. Review the notes:
   • A Gentle Introduction to Metadata
   • Third party extensions
   • A query facility for selective harvesting of OLAC metadata
   • Viser: A virtual service provider for displaying selected OLAC metadata
   • Specifications for an OLAC metadata display format and an OLAC-to-OAI_DC crosswalk
4. Miscellaneous:
   • Read up on OLAC technical infrastructure (12-page overview).
   • Read the OLAC 1.0 XML Schemas and examples
   • Review the OLAC-Implementers mailing list archive
   • Review the METADATA mailing list archive