OLAC

This presentation oultines the contents of the collaborativly developed course material for language archives.

What legitimizes a contributor role? What do contributor roles infer?

The OLAC Discorse Type Vocaulary should have a value for Poetry.

Many archives (PARADISEC, ELAR, Pangloss, AILLA) operate as standalone units. This affords them the opportunity to make decisions about controlled vocabularies used within their information systems. Assumptions about the independent nature of …

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

This study explores the composition of linguistic and anthropological language-focused artifact records which use the DCMIType term ‘PhysicalObject’. However, the results are broadly applicable to all users of Dublin Core. Dublin Core’s …

How should we describe transcripts within the OLAC framework?

This paper presents an analysis of research involving the use and validity of the DCMIType value ‘PhysicalObject’ in the OLAC network of data providers.

Two ways to reference the source metadata schema used by OLAC providers.

Three ways to imporve the indexing of serials within OLAC.