There is an interesting dc:type declaration using the term ‘archives’ in some OLAC records.
Copyright issues for collectors and stewards of collections.
Several examples of how OAI sets could be used or leveraged for use in OLAC.
How should peer-review be different for different kinds of resources? What constitutes a complex language resource?
When and where does community review and peer-review create mutal benefit?
Can OAI-Sets be employed to leverage collection information?
Language materials, as commonly conceptualized by academics, are resources which specifically exhibit or provide evidence of a naturally spoken language. The modern area of academic practice known as language documentation has its roots in …
The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) aggregator currently compiles 443,217 records from 65 providers. Participating archives each provide Dublin Core metadata via an OAI feed.Based on the needs of both linguists and language community members, …
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.