The Seven Pillars of Open Language Archiving: Introducing the OLAC Vision Gary Simons SIL International LSA Symposium: The Open Language Archives Community.

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The Seven Pillars of Open Language Archiving: Introducing the OLAC Vision Gary Simons SIL International LSA Symposium: The Open Language Archives Community 4 January 2002

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 Unprecedented opportunity Digital archiving of language documentation and description on the World-Wide Web offers: Minimal cost multimedia publishing Maximal access to the citizens of the world Two aspects are particularly strategic: Tool for language preservation and maintenance Heightened ethical, legal, and policy concerns

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 Two possible futures Digital archiving could hold: the promise of unparalleled access to information, or, the specter of unparalleled frustra- tion and confusion The outcome will depend on whether we: act in community to define and follow best practice, or, act in isolation to proliferate idio- syncratic practices

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 A community to bridge the gap What users want the ideal What users actually get the gap What it would take to bridge the gap a community that provides the infrastructure for acting in concert

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 A building metaphor The infrastructure is erected on seven pillars: Data Tools Advice Gateway Metadata Review Standards

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 What users want The individuals who use and create language documentation and description are looking for three things: Data Tools Advice

OLAC Launch, LSA Data Information that documents or describes a language of interest A wide variety of formats: print publications, computer data files, sound recordings, hand-written index cards, and so on A wide variety of content: word lists, paradigms, texts, annotations, lexicons, grammar descriptions, and so on

OLAC Launch, LSA Tools Computational resources that facilitate creating, viewing, querying, or otherwise using language data These include: application programs, components, fonts, style sheets, document type definitions, and so on

OLAC Launch, LSA Advice Information that users would typically solicit when they need help For instance, What data sources should I rely on? What software tools should I use? What practices should I follow when creating data? When using data?

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 The ideal situation

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 What users actually get The data are archived at hundreds of sites Some are on Web and user finds them Some are on Web but user can t find them Some are not even on Web The tools and advice are at hundreds of other sites

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 The gap

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 It s even worse The user may not find all existing data about the language of interest because different sites have called it by different names. The user may not be able to use an accessible data file for lack of being able to match it with the right tools. The user may locate advice that seems relevant but then has no way to judge how good it is.

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 What a community could provide In order to bridge the gap, the individuals who use and create language documentation and description need a community that provides four things: A single gateway Uniform metadata A review process Standards

OLAC Launch, LSA Gateway A single portal through which users gain access to all available data, tools, and advice The actual data, tools, and advice are located on hundreds of sites all over the Internet the gateway stores links to them. By accessing the single gateway site, the user gains access to all available data, tools, and advice.

OLAC Launch, LSA Metadata Uniform descriptions of all available data, tools, and advice Not the data itself, but data about the data; thus it works for digital and non-digital holdings. Uses specialized metadata elements to meet requirements specific to language archives: uniformly identifying languages matching data formats to the appropriate tools

OLAC Launch, LSA Review Peer review is an important function of any academic community Peer evaluation of available data, tools, and advice Review by individuals (with responses) Review by community to establish some advice as recommended best practice

OLAC Launch, LSA Standards Provide the framework that allows the core infrastructure to function: Gateway governed by a protocol for harvest- ing metadata from participating archives Metadata governed by an XML schema that ensures uniformity across all archives Review governed by a process that allows community to establish best practice

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 The community infrastructure

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 Open Language Archives Community An international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by: developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for housing and accessing such resources

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 Participating archives (13) Alaska Native Language Center American Indian Studies Research Institute American Philosophical Society American Indian Manuscript Collections Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz European Language Resources Association Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale Linguistic Data Consortium Oxford Text Archive Perseus Project SIL International TELRI Research Archive of Computational Tools and Resources Typological Research Center

OLAC Launch, LSA-02 How does it work? Participants follow three standards: OLAC Metadata Set OLAC Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OLAC Process These extend proven standards from the digital library community: Dublin Core Metadata Set Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting