OLAC Mission

OLAC, the Open Language Archives Community, is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources, and (ii) developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources.

News

OLAC Presents at NSF Workshop on Documenting Endangered Langauges: In October 2007, the US National Science Foundation put on a workshop to assess the state of the art in documenting endangered languages... More...

OLAC receives new NSF Sponsorship: The US National Science Foundation has funded a project OLAC: Accessing the World's Language Resources... More...

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Documents

OLAC Standards - specify how OLAC operates

Recommendations - express consensus of OLAC members regarding language resource archiving

Notes - background information and guidance for implementers

General Information:
FAQ | Overview | Providing Data

Search for Language Resources

  • OLAC Search at Linguist List
  • OLAC Search at LDC

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    Sign-up for the OLAC-General mailing list, and help with the creation of standards and best practices for language resource archiving (Archives).

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    Contact

    The OLAC coordinators may be contacted via email at olac-admin@language-archives.org

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    Last modified: Sat Nov 17 12:21:59 EST 2007