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| OLAC Repository Editor |
| The ORE is one way in which a researcher can become a "data provider" and submit information about the language data that they have collected. The aim is to encourage all field linguists and language researchers to submit information about their data to a central, searchable online library. Linguistic data is very dispersed and can be difficult to locate and obtain. But with one central hub, the time consuming and often futile search becomes quick and fruitful. With the OLAC Repository Editor you create metadata describing your language data, which the OLAC search engine can understand. Users will then be able to search your data by language, linguistic type, format, accessibility and so on. With the ORE you do not enter the data itself, so access rights are still protected. If you want to submit information about your field notes, for example, you might use the ORE to set up a single repository called 'Researcher X's Field notes on Language Y'. Into this repository, you would put a record for each set of notes, so there might be one record for vocabulary and one record for the sound system, for instance. Even if you work with more than one language, it is probably best to create a single repository to cover all of them. The ORE is most suitable for field researchers with a small amount of linguistic data to describe. If you know XML, Vida is a quicker method of providing metadata. Large archives that are already cataloged should use the conventional approach. |
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