LINGUIST List 14.948

Tue Apr 1 2003

All: The LINGUIST List OLAC Gateway

Editor for this issue: Richard John Harvey <richardlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. linguist, The Open Language Archives Community - The LINGUIST List Gateway
2. linguist, Where Your Donations Go - Gayathri Sriram
3. linguist, How to Donate and the LINGUIST List Hall of Fame

Dear Linguists,

How would you like to find all the Mandarin Chinese lexicons, or how
would you like to make your Mandarin Chinese lexicon accessible to
other researchers/linguists?
	
The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) does that for you! OLAC is
dedicated to collecting information about language resources,
assembling an online database, similar to a large library catalog and
making it available from a single search. LINGUIST List is a service
provider for this catalog by housing it on the site, which not only
allows linguists to search OLAC through LINGUIST List, but also to
become data providers for the project.

Search OLAC: Many of you must be familiar with the difficulty of
finding information relevant to your research. Searching the internet
has made this problem a notch easier, no doubt, but you must be
willing to spend lots of precious time looking up each individual
archive or website. Since the same thing can be described in many ways
(dictionary and lexicon, possessive and genitive), you may never find
what you are looking for! In light of the above problems, OLAC catalog
has stored information on language resources, such as field notes,
lexicons, audio/video recordings, papers, etc. The information is
stored as metadata in XML format so that the OLAC search engine easily
understands it. Go ahead, and look up your favorite resource using
the OLAC search engine at:

http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/olac/olac-search-advanced.html
	
Become an OLAC archive: Whether your collection of language data is
large or small, OLAC would like you to add to the catalog by becoming
a "Data Provider". This involves creating a repository of information
describing your data. Please note that you are not being asked to
submit the data itself, so you still have full control over
it. Remember, your data itself does not have to be available on the
internet (a collection of field notes, for example). There are three
different ways to provide data.

1. The OLAC Repository editor (ORE): If you are an individual with
small projects, this method would be the simplest. ORE is a series a
simple online forms. You can enter your information using these forms;
this information is automatically converted into a format that the
OLAC search engine can read. So, if you want your valuable
information to be accessible to the entire linguistic community,
please go to:

http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/olac/ore/index.html

and become an OLAC data provider.

2. The Virtual Data Provider (Vida): If you know XML, Vida is a
quicker way of providing data. Create an XML document, and put it on a
publicly-accessible website, Vida can take it and submit it to the
OLAC search engine. Vida is suitable for larger projects that have no
pre-existing catalog database. For more on Vida, please visit:

http://www.language-archives.org/docs/implement.html#Vida

3. Conventional Approach for large archives: If you have a catalog and
programming skills, this is the best method. Here, you implement a
software interface to your database, which creates the XML metadata
and sends it to the OLAC search engine. For more on the Conventional
approach, please visit:

http://www.language-archives.org/docs/implement.html#conventional

Gayathri Sriram
Programmer

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