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Open Language Archives Community:
Original Working Groups
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Five working groups met on the closing day of the Philadelphia workshop,
and committed themselves to the activities listed below.
Metadata Working Group
Mailing list:
METADATA
- Gary Simons will coordinate things towards
producing a document
- Gary Holton will write up and circulate notes on
the working group discussions
- Mark Liberman will collect examples of catalog
entries from several different archives
- Helen Dry will identify other people to include in
the working group
- Possible future meetings: March 1-2 Nijmegen;
Santa Barbara mid-June
Character Encoding Working Group
Mailing list:
CHARACTERS
- Sharon Correll will circulate a write-up of the
group/s work, and will manage the position
paper, to be revised by the mailing list
- Infrastructure for collecting mappings from 8-bit
character sets to Unicode
- Kinds of information about character encoding
that would be added to a collection of best
practices (worst practices)
Interlinear Text Working Group
Mailing list:
INTERLINEAR
- Define an API for working with interlinear text
- Move toward best practice recommendations for
certain types of interlinear text markup
- Offer documentation and advice regarding
existing practices
- The WG will find/document existing methods,
and document this on a web page (Ron Sprouse)
- Gather use cases for interlinear text:
representation of IT, manipulation, use, ...
Lexicon Working Group
Mailing list:
METALEX
- Start with an RFC focussing on metadata useful
for describing lexicons
- Dafydd Gibbon, Nancy Ide and Khalid Choukri
will collect information about existing metadata
guidelines (how lexicons have been described in
the past)
- User interfaces for representing online lexicons
model for a service provider for lexicons
(facilitated by Anne Mahoney)
Ethics Working Group
Mailing list:
ETHICS
- Group will involve indigenous scholars, and experts from other areas; and
professional associations re existing documents
- Bill Poser will circulate draft proposal will be created and circulated in
the next few weeks; contributions from Jonathan Amith
- Parts of the ethical issues discussion to go into metadata?
- OLAC should have guidelines for providers, suggestion that data providers
supply fair use statements
- Issues: defining fair use, copyright, legal issues (Mark Liberman's
document to be circulated)
- Future meetings:
- a followup meeting in a year at LSA winter meeting, followed by a final
version of the working group's paper
- the SALSA meeting in April at UT Austin;
- Stabilizing Indigenous Languages (June, Arizona)