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


WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Tuesday Morning: Standards


8:15
BREAKFAST
8:55
Welcome and Local Arrangements [Steven Bird, Laurel Sweeney]
9:00
Introductions: 1-2 minute introductions to each archive and service [ALL]
9:30
The OLAC Process and the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting [Gary Simons] [ppt|pdf]
OLAC Metadata Format and Extension Mechanism [Steven Bird] [ppt|pdf]
10:30
BREAK
11:00
Group discussion of OLAC Standards
Plenary discussion and resolution
12:30
LUNCH

Tuesday Afternoon: Vocabularies

2:00
Each presentation to give an overview of the vocabulary (explaining a document draft which has been circulated), and identify specific outstanding issues for discussion.
1a. OLAC-Language: Ethnologue [Gary Simons]
1b. OLAC-Language: Linguist Codes [Anthony Aristar] [ppt|pdf]
2. OLAC-Linguistic-Type, OLAC-Linguistic-Field, OLAC-Discourse-Type [Helen Aristar Dry, Gayathri Sriram] [ppt|pdf]
3. OLAC-Language-Technology-Fields [Baden Hughes] [ppt|pdf]
4. OLAC-Role [Heidi Johnson] [ppt|pdf]
5. OLAC-Rights [Heidi Johnson] [ppt|pdf]
3:30
BREAK
4:00
Group discussions of outstanding vocabulary issues:
1. Rights/Role [Heidi Johnson, chair]
2. Linguistic Field/Type [Helen Aristar Dry, chair]
3. Language Technology [Baden Hughes, chair]
5:30
CLOSE

Wednesday Morning: Vocabularies

8:15
BREAKFAST
9:00
Working group chairs report back [Heidi Johnson, Helen Aristar Dry [ppt|pdf] , Baden Hughes [ppt|pdf]]
9:15
Archivists/Librarians Panel: guidance on vocabulary discussions [Joan Spanne, Diane Hillmann, Elaine Westbrooks]
9:45
Further working group discussion
10:30
BREAK
11:00
Further working group discussion
12:30
LUNCH

Wednesday Afternoon: Archives and Services

2:00
State Of The Archives address [Joan Spanne] [ppt|pdf]
A report on our archive survey
3:00
Live review of OLAC website
3:30
BREAK
4:00
Open Forum for New Initiatives, Subcommunities, ...
1. Outreach [Jeff Good] [ppt|pdf]
2. Net-DC [Andrew Cole, Khalid Choukri] [ppt|pdf]
3. IMDI [Heidi Johnston] [ppt|pdf]
4. Viser [Gary Simons] [html]
5:15
Presentation of Revised Standards [Gary Simons, Steven Bird]
5:30
CLOSE

Thursday Morning: Resolution

8:15
BREAKFAST
9:00
Working Group Reports:
1. Language Technology [Baden Hughes] [ppt|pdf]
2. Rights/Role [Heidi Johnson]
3. Type/Field [Helen Aristar Dry]
10:30
BREAK
11:00
Plenary Discussion:
Vocabularies, Revised OLAC Standards, Website
12:30
LUNCH
Discussion of 2003 agenda
New Tasks [ppt|pdf]

2:00
CLOSE


Steven Bird , Gary Simons
sb@ldc.upenn.edu, Gary_Simons@sil.org
Open Language Archives Community