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

Language Archives Tutorial at LSA: In January 2009, an OLAC-endorsed tutorial on language archives was held at the winter meeting of the Linguistic Society of America... More...

OLAC Presented at three Pacific Conferences: In 2008 and 2009, OLAC is being presented at conferences in Australia, the Philippines, and Hawaii... More...

OLAC Presents at Driver Summit: In January 2008, the DRIVER project convened a Summit [re] an operational confederation of digital repositories... More...

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:
Overview | FAQ | Implementers' FAQ

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OLAC Coverage

OLAC Archives contain approximately 35,000 records, covering resources in half of the world's living languages. More statistics on coverage.

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Contact

The OLAC coordinators may be contacted via email.