The OLAC metadata set and controlled vocabularies

Steven Bird, Gary Simons

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    Abstract

    As language data and associated technologies proliferate and as the language resources community rapidly expands, it has become difficult to locate and reuse existing resources. Are there any lexical resources for such-and-such a language? What tool can work 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 describes a new digital infrastructure for language resource discovery, based on the Open Archives Initiative, and called OLAC – the Open Language Archives Community. The OLAC Metadata Set and the associated controlled vocabularies facilitate consistent description and
    focussed searching. We report progress on the metadata set and controlled vocabularies, describing current issues and soliciting input from the language
    resources community.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources-Volume 15
    Pages7-18
    Number of pages12
    Publication statusPublished - 2001

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