Language Archives Tutorial at LSA (USA): [1/09]
In January 2009, an OLAC-endorsed tutorial on language archives was held
at the winter meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
OLAC Presented at three Pacific Conferences: [9/08]
In 2008 and 2009, OLAC is being presented at conferences in Australia, the Philippines, and Hawaii:
the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (Australia),
the Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (Philippines),
and the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (Hawaii).
OLAC Presents at DRIVER Summit: [1/08]
In January 2008, the DRIVER project (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research)
convened a Summit to present results of its initial test-bed
phase and to pave the way for establishing an operational confederation of digital repositories.
DRIVER responds to the vision that all relevant scientific content should be easily accessible through internet-based infrastructures.
Like OLAC, DRIVER builds on the OAI (Open Archives Initiative)
infrastructure.
OLAC was invited to present its work on developing a
"thematic" federation of repositories focused on language
resources.
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OLAC Presents at NSF Workshop on Documenting Endangered Languages: [10/07]
In October 2007, the US National Science Foundation put on a workshop to assess the state of the
art in documenting endangered languages and to plot directions for
the future. There were 25 invited participants representing funding agencies, data
providers, tool providers, and archives. OLAC was invited to present about its contribution of
developing an infrastructure for indexing endangered language documentation. The report
shows that OLAC indexes resources from over 3,100 of the world's language, including 2,186 living
languages that are known to have fewer than 100,000 speakers.
OLAC receives new NSF Sponsorship: [8/07]
The US National Science Foundation has funded a project
OLAC: Accessing the World's Language Resources which 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 OLAC catalog and in the use of OLAC
search services. The project will do so through two main areas of
activity: developing guidelines and services that encourage language
archives to follow best common practices that will facilitate language
resource discovery through OLAC, and developing services to bridge
from the resource catalogs of the library and web domains to the OLAC catalog.
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