OLAC Service Provider Registration

Registering as an OLAC Service Provider

Service providers who harvest OLAC metadata are encouraged to list their service in the OLAC registry.  The goals of the registry are:

• Provide a publicly accessible list of services based on metadata from OLAC conformant repositories, making it easy for end users to discover services that provide access tot language-related resources.
• Provide a review mechanism on behalf of the end-user community to ensure that registered services do provide a service based on OLAC metadata.
• Provide a basis for participating in the governance of OLAC in the role of "participating service".

This page allows you to register your service by entering information in the form at the bottom of this page.  Before doing that, please read all of this instruction page so you understand what registration means.

Consequences of Registration
Conformance Review
Confirmation of Registration
Changing Registration Information
Register Your Service

Consequences of Registration

By registering your service you agree to the following: 

• OLAC will review your service in order to ensure that it harvests OLAC metadata and provides a service based on that metadata.
• The registry database will store all the information entered in the form below. Contents of the registration database are open for public searching and browsing.
• OLAC will offer members of the end-user community the opportunity to write peer reviews of your service. When your service is reviewed, you will be given a chance to write a response that will be posted with the review.
• You are authorized to harvest and redistribute metadata from any data provider in the archive list on the OLAC server. Your service may display entire metadata records, just a subset of the harvested metadata elements, or summary statistics concerning the presence or content of metadata elements, subject to the OLAC License (TO BE FINALIZED).
• Your service will be considered to be a participating service and will be allowed to participate in the governance of OLAC as described in the OLAC process document.

Conformance Review

In order to qualify for registration with OLAC, a service must use the OLAC protocol for metadata harvesting to harvest metadata from OLAC data providers. It must then present back to the OLAC user community some view of harvested metadata or an interface to a process for manipulating metadata.

When you submit the URL of your service via the form below, the OLAC Coordinators will review your service to ensure that it meets these requirements.

Confirmation of Registration

Shortly after registration (usually within 24 hours) an email reporting the results of the conformance testing and registration request will be sent to the email address supplied in the form below.

Changing Registration Information

In order to change your registration information you should contact OLAC administrator. Some instances in which you might want to change your registration information are:

• change of contact person
• change of the service description.

Register Your Service

Online registration form

Questions: olac-admin@language-archives.org