metadata

Metadata Quality Assessment & OLAC

A reflection on OLAC metadata quality assessment processes after readings for course work at UNT.

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 Term Consolidation

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

OLAC in Search Results

Do all OLACs refer to the Open Language Archives Community?

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 …

Dublin Core Challenges

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

Diversity and Typology Across OLAC Providers

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

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?

Multilingual Metadata & Metadata Translation

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

NFT Description

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