Open Language Archives Community OLAC: Accessing the World's Language Resources

This site is the work space for a collaborative research project between the Linguistic Data Consortium (at the University of Pennsylvania) and the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (in Dallas, Texas) that aims to greatly improve access to language resources for linguists and the broader communities of interest, by achieving an order-of-magnitude increase in the coverage of the Open Language Archives Community along with significant enhancements to its services it offers. (See full proposal.)

Project planning

Objective 1: Access to Language Resources in Archives

Develop guidelines and services that encourage best common practices among language archives that will facilitate language resource discovery with precision through OLAC.

• 1.1 Metadata
• 1.2 Participation
• 1.3 Curation

Objective 2: Access to Language Resources on the Web

Develop services to bridge the resource catalogs of the repository, library, and web domains (OAI, MARC, Google) to facilitate language resource discovery with precision through OLAC.

• 2.1 Crosswalking
• 2.2 Mining
• 2.3 Search

This site is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under collaborative grants BCS-0723357 and BCS-0723864.

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