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OLAC News from 2002 |
OLAC Workshop [12/02]From 10-12 December there was an OLAC workshop in Philadelphia which revised the OLAC standards and controlled vocabularies, reviewed OLAC archives and services, and considered proposals for new activities.
OLAC in Wired News [11/02]On November 4, 2002, Wired News published an article called Word Up: Keeping Languages Alive which discusses OLAC in connection with the Rosetta Project, one of our member archives. In the article, Gary Simons is quoted as saying: "The computing and recording technologies that are now standard tools in doing field linguistics are changing so quickly that information captured electronically today could cease to be accessible in another decade or two if special care is not taken to ensure that it is archived in stable formats by stable institutions." (Developing recommendations in this area will be a key focus of OLAC in 2003 - Steven Bird)
OLAC in Scientific American [8/02]The August 2002 issue of Scientific American has an article called Saving Dying Languages which includes a discussion of OLAC.
OLAC Working Group on Linguistic Types: Call for Participation [7/02]The OLAC Working Group on Linguistic Types will create the OLAC-Linguistic-Type vocabulary that describes the nature or genre of the content of a language resource from a linguistic standpoint. |
OLAC Language Codes Working Group: Call for Participation [5/02]The OLAC Working Group on Language Codes will create OLAC standards concerning language code vocabularies and their management. In scope are all human languages, living, recently extinct, ancient and constructed (including proto and artificial languages). To learn more, and to join the group, please see the group's web page. More Archives Join OLAC [5/02]In the lead-up to the European Launch, several more archives have recently joined OLAC. These include: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, A Multimodal Database of Communicative Interaction (includes the CHILDES database), Academia Sinica, the Rosetta Project 1000 Language Archive, and the SIL Language and Culture Archive.
OLAC Launch in Europe [5/02]OLAC was launched at the 3rd Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, in Las Palmas, Spain, 29 May 2002 (14:40-16:40). There were presentations by Gary Simons, Helen Aristar-Dry, Hans Uszkoreit, Martin Wynne, Laurent Romary, Steven Bird and Nicholas Ostler.
OLAC Launch in North America [1/02]OLAC was launched at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, in the San Francisco Hyatt Regency, 3-6 January 2002. The event included presentations from Gary Simons, Helen Dry, Megan Crowhurst, Chu-Ren Huang, Mark Liberman, Gary Holton and Steven Bird.
The launch marks the freezing of the OLAC metadata set for a one year period to encourage widespread adoption. |