Collections

Additional OLAC Collections

There is an interesting dc:type declaration using the term ‘archives’ in some OLAC records.

Collection Use and Copyright Considerations

Copyright issues for collectors and stewards of collections.

An Application of OAI Sets for OLAC

Several examples of how OAI sets could be used or leveraged for use in OLAC.

Peer-Review and Complex Language Resources

How should peer-review be different for different kinds of resources? What constitutes a complex language resource?

The Role of the Language Community in Peer-Review process for Collections

When and where does community review and peer-review create mutal benefit?

OAI-Sets for OLAC

Can OAI-Sets be employed to leverage collection information?

Where Have All the Collections Gone?: Analysis of OLAC Data Contributors' use of DCMIType 'Collection'

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 …

Where Have All the Collections Gone?

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, …

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.