metadata

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.

SIL-UND M.A. Thesis Defense where I discuss some sailent related to the ability to easily re-use archival metadata records to produce references in scholarly publications.

A stab at some roles for learning resources.

With the rise of the digital language archive and the plethora of referenceable content, a critical question arises: “How easy is it for authors to use existing tools to cite the content they are referencing?” This is especially important as people …

I demonstrate how a researcher can use their personal website to advertise their publications and presentations in OLAC. I use open source technologies to take markdown files and convert them into a compliant XML feed. The result is greater exposure of one’s academic experience to those looking for language resources.

I present an overview of the kinds of challenges that authors have when they try to import metadata from archives into Zotero, where they will later use the data to craft references and citations.

This OLAC extenstion adds the ability to add a Zotero item type and validate that files have a valid item type.