TY - JOUR
T1 - Extending Dublin Core metadata to support the description and discovery of language resources
AU - Bird, Steven
AU - Simons, Gary
PY - 2003/12/1
Y1 - 2003/12/1
N2 - As language data and associated technologies proliferate and as the language resources community expands, it is becoming increasingly difficult to locate and reuse existing resources. Are there any lexical resources for such-and-such a language? What tool works with transcripts in this particular format? What is a good format to use for linguistic data of this type? Questions like these dominate many mailing lists, since web search engines are an unreliable way to find language resources. This paper reports on a new digital infrastructure for discovering language resources being developed by the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). At the core of OLAC is its metadata format, which is designed to facilitate description and discovery of all kinds of language resources, including data, tools, or advice. The paper describes OLAC metadata, its relationship to Dublin Core metadata, and its dissemination using the metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative.
AB - As language data and associated technologies proliferate and as the language resources community expands, it is becoming increasingly difficult to locate and reuse existing resources. Are there any lexical resources for such-and-such a language? What tool works with transcripts in this particular format? What is a good format to use for linguistic data of this type? Questions like these dominate many mailing lists, since web search engines are an unreliable way to find language resources. This paper reports on a new digital infrastructure for discovering language resources being developed by the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC). At the core of OLAC is its metadata format, which is designed to facilitate description and discovery of all kinds of language resources, including data, tools, or advice. The paper describes OLAC metadata, its relationship to Dublin Core metadata, and its dissemination using the metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative.
KW - Language resources
KW - Metadata
KW - Open archives
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=18444390388&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/A:1025720518994
DO - 10.1023/A:1025720518994
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:18444390388
SN - 0010-4817
VL - 37
SP - 375
EP - 388
JO - Computers and the Humanities
JF - Computers and the Humanities
IS - 4
ER -