Research Note

Some questions on the theory presented in the Dublin Core

If we take a design look at Dublin Core, is it really as flexible as proclaimed or are there limits imposed by semantics.

OLAC in Search Results

Do all OLACs refer to the Open Language Archives Community?

OLAC and Unicode Errors

A short summary of some Unicode errors in OLAC rendering pages.

Dublin Core Challenges

What are some really practical things that I wish were more feasable with vanilla Dublin Core.

OLAC — Bottom-up and Top-down

Various understandings of metadata profile for the Open Language Archive Community exist in the literature. But are they justified?

OLAC Subject Terms and Their Equivalents

An initial look issues in developing a cross-walk between Library of Congress Subject Heading terms to OLAC subject terms.

Writing System Versions

An outline of some of the things to track when making a writing system history database.

Tolkien-Studies

Some pointers in academic Tolkien studies.

Corpora, Collections, and Datasets

There has been some discussion of what constitutes a collection among language documentation practitioners. Johnson (Citation: Johnson, 2004, p. 142) Johnson, H. (2004). Language documentation and archiving, or how to build a better corpus.

Digital Materiality for Language Artifacts

A short bibliography of papers related to materiality and digital objects.