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In Brief
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You can use the OLAC Repository Editor to submit information about language data or documentation that you have. It is essentially a series of online forms. After you submit the data, the ORE will convert it into the XML format that the OLAC search engine can read. Log in or register.
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About the OLAC Repository Editor
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Recognizing how dispersed linguistic information is and how difficult it is to find,
the Open Languages Archive Community is
collecting information about extant language resources and making this freely available
over the internet. The aim is to create a "union catalog" of resources
relevant to language and linguistics.
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OLAC is inviting every researcher and archive to become a "Data Provider" by
submitting information about available language-oriented resources, e.g.,
field notes, grammatical sketches, lexicons, unpublished papers, and so forth.
The information requested includes the language described or analyzed, the
format of the resource (e.g., web page, hard copy, cassette), who may access
it and how, and so on. Note that the data itself is not requested, so you
still have full control over who sees it.
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The OLAC Repository Editor is one way to submit this information. You should use the ORE if your repository is small and you do not want to write XML yourself; the ORE will convert your information into XML for you.
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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.
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It is up to you how you want to organize your data inside the repository; think about how to make it most accessible to someone searching for it. If you have primary data about a language, you don't need to make a separate record for every example sentence, but it might be useful to separate recordings from your written notes. More information on using the ORE.
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• or other ways to be a Data Provider
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