Metadata

A quick look at how OLAC can benefit from term consolidation.

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 …

Several publications have claimed that all Open Language Archives Community data providers are archives. However is this true?

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

A University of North Texas course work project looking multilingual metadata and metadata translation.

A Royal Protocol project to use schema.org vocabualry to provide a description context to NFT assets.

A review of the arrangement of audio artifacts in three different collections, each at a different language archive.

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, …

By participating in OLAC, Linguistic Labs can advertise their services and their products. This can raise the profile of the entire lab.

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